Alan’s honorary great-niece Lucy is visiting Sherebury from Chicago to deliver a series of lectures about fundraising, and Dorothy is happy to make her acquaintance too. Lucy is also in love, but when her fiance is struck and killed by a speeding vehicle in London while making a surprise visit to see her, Alan and Dorothy begin to have second thoughts about his character, whether his death is an accident and who might have wanted to kill him….This is the 25th and so far last of the Dorothy Martin cozy series, which has carried readers all throughout the UK in some delightful and some dreary books; I mostly just read this for the sake of completeness. That said, it’s a reasonably good finale for Dorothy and Alan, along with their cats and faithful dog, plus the new addition of a very determined little kitten. Why the couple makes the decision they do at the very end is beyond me, though, given that Alan has kids and grandkids, and Dorothy has nieces and nephews, but perhaps Ms. Dams is setting things up for a new series with a character introduced here. In any event, a mild recommendation for this one. ( )