DEATH UNDER A LITTLE SKY, by Stig Abell (HarperCollins, $35)
Ex-detective Jake Jackson inherits an isolated old house in the country from his eccentric, hermit-like uncle. He leaves his job, his marriage and London for a new off-thegrid life where he goes skinny dipping – there is no shower until he builds one – and avidly reads his way through his uncle’s collection of, for the introduction to the wonderful Josephine Tey, who I had somehow neglected to discover.)
