Illustrated book cover for Murder on the Cricket Green by Catherine Coles, showing a village green with cricket stumps, a bat and ball, a white glove, cottages and a church in the background, bunting overhead, and a brown dog above the title.

Why I Set a Murder on a Cricket Green

There’s something deceptively peaceful about an English village cricket match. The white clothing. The polite applause. The sense that nothing truly terrible could happen on a neatly trimmed green, under a mild May sky. And yet, for a mystery writer, that’s precisely what makes a setting like that irresistible. That contrast — order and chaos, […]

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