Beginning of a new series

I've enjoyed Carola Dunn's Daisy Dalrymple mysteries and am happy to report that this new series is a lot of fun - "Manna from Hades". I like the fact that she tells us upfront that this is set in "a fictional village in a fictional world lurking somewhere in the 1960s and '70s". We needn't try to find the villages on any map. Eleanor Trewynn is a widow living in the small Cornish fishing village of Port Mabyn. When her husband was alive they spent their time traveling around the world as ambassadors for LonStar, a charitable organization like Oxfam. Now she lives above the shop and does the collecting for the charity. When a young man is found dead in the store room, her troubles begin. Her neice, Megan Pencarrow, is a Detective Sergeant with a grumpy boss, Detective Inspector Scumble, who doesn't approve of women in the police force and Eleanor quickly becomes a thorn in his side - it's his own fault since he won't let her finish a paragraph or statement without interrupting. Nick, the artist who has the shop next door and Jocelyn, the pastor's very competent wife, round out the characters we become most familar with - besides a smart Westie named Teazle! My only complaint was that I wished the author had let Eleanor use her martial art prowess to surprise the bad guys and the Detective Inspector - or "That Man" as Jocelyn referred to him.