Edwina Fullerton is a Detective Sergeant in London CID. She hates London and the heirarchy she has to work with. The heirarchy in turn do not like her. She is as good detective, very good in fact, but she has little sense of humour, poor interpersonal skills and is abrupt in her conversation. She doesn't have one single friend; work is all she lives for. Her only leisure pursuit is an occasional study of Victorian paintings - and reading trashy novels. Out of the blue she is promoted to Detective Inspector, and, much to the delight of her London colleagues, quickly transferred to a sleepy town called Windscot. She does not make friends here because of her no nonsense attitude. But that does not worry her, she is used to it. Windscot has always been a quiet place, a rural retreat in the backwaters of England - but that soon changes. A series of grisly murders takes place and Edwina has not only to solve the murders but train her new officers in the art of murder investigation. DEATH COMES FROM THE PAST follows Edwina as she charts her way through clues and the red herrings that stand in her way. DEATH COMES FROM THE PAST is the first book in the Detective Edwina Fullerton series of mysteries.