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Fethering mystery volume 13
Language
English
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When a private viewing of works by a controversial artist turns from lively to violent, Fethering residents Carole and Jude believe that the local police are wrong about a suicide ruling and privately investigate suspicions that a murder has taken place.
Author
Series
Fethering mystery volume 17
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Polly's Cake Shop has been a feature of the shopping parade for many years, but when its owner announces her retirement, the Fethering residents start to worry about the loss of this popular amenity. Alarmed by rumours that the café might become a Starbucks, a group clubs together to form the Save Polly's Cake Shop Action Committee.
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Series
Kate Shackleton mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Kate Shackleton investigates a pawn-shop robbery that brings her into the wealthy neighborhoods of 1920s Harrogate, where a night at the theater is shattered by a brutal murder and the kidnapping of a leading lady.
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Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes volume 14
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Mary Russell is used to dark secrets--her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond. And what of the other person to whom Mary Russell has opened her heart: the couple's longtime housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson? Russell's faith and affection are suddenly shattered when a man arrives on the doorstep claiming to be Mrs....
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Seven keen amateur photographers gather for the most popular openings of the decade. Only six will return. Yorkshire, 1928. Indomitable sleuth Kate Shackleton is taking a well-deserved break from her detective work and indulging in her other passion: photography. When her local Photographic Society proposes an outing to the opening of the Bronte Museum, Kate jumps at the chance to visit the setting of Wuthering Heights. But the setting proves to be...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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1929, London. In the darkness before dawn, a London railway porter discovers a man's body as he unloads a special goods train from Yorkshire, all means of identification stripped away. Hitting a dead end, Scotland Yard call on indomitable sleuth Kate Shackleton, hoping her local Yorkshire knowledge and undoubted skills at winkling out information will produce the results they need. 1929, Yorkshire. Fears of unrest in the Yorkshire coalfields mean...
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Series
Kate Shackleton mystery volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When the India Office seek help in finding Maharajah Narayan, last seen hunting on the Bolton Abbey estate, they call upon the expertise of renowned amateur detective Kate Shackleton to investigate. --Publisher
10) A useful woman
Author
Series
Rosalind Thorne mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the novels of Jane Austen, this new mystery series set in 19th-century London introduces the charming and resourceful Rosalind Thorne, a woman privy to the secrets of high society—-including who among the ton is capable of murder... --Publisher
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Series
Fethering mystery volume 18
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When a talk by successful author Burton St Clair at Fethering Library ends in sudden, violent death, Jude finds herself the prime suspect in the ensuing murder investigation. She must enlist the help of her neighbour Carole not just to solve the crime, but to prove she didn't commit it"--
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Series
Kate Shackleton mystery volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Suspecting the true nature of a theater actress' invitation to a viewing party at a school chapel during an eclipse in 1927 Yorkshire, Kate Shackleton investigates the suspicious death of one of the actress' co-stars, the third to have died recently under mysterious circumstances. --
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Series
Black and Dod mystery volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Introducing amateur sleuths Frances Black and Tom Dod in the first of an intriguing new historical mystery series. The night before she's due to make a speech to the Robert Barnaby Society on the subject of the famous writer's 'magic chair', committee member Linda Dexter disappears. When her body is discovered two days later, fellow members Frances Black and Tom Dod determine to find out the truth about her death. Does the answer lie in the dead woman's...
Author
Series
Fethering mystery volume 19
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Although she hadn't known Leonard Mallett very well, nor liked him particularly, Carole Seddon feels duty bound to attend her fellow committee member's funeral. As she suspected, the hymns, readings and sermon are all very predictable - not unlike Leonard himself. What she couldn't have predicted was that the deceased's daughter would use the occasion to publicly accuse her stepmother of murder. Did Heather Mallett really kill her husband, as many...
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Series
Lady Trent mystery volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
With the help of her partner Dylan Tremayne, Serafina must help her neighbors determine who the true heir is to their sizable estate. Believing they were childless, the Haydens are shocked when Serafina uncovers that their sole child, whom they were lead to believe had died at birth, actually lived and is a criminal in England's seediest part of town. When the Hayden's butler is found poisoned, the stakes are raised, as is Serafina's ever-growing...
16) Devil's delight
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Agatha Raisin volume 33
Language
English
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Description
Toni and Agatha are in the car on the way to Officer Bill Wong's long-awaited wedding when, much to their shock, a naked young man bursts through a hedge on the side of the road and comes running toward them. Terrified, he explains that he has just seen a dead body in the woods. Toni lends him an old t-shirt to cover himself, Agatha calls the police, and the young man takes them to the spot where he saw the body, across from a meadow where the Mircester...
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Series
Kate Shackleton mystery volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Young Harriet and her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stone mason father works. So when they find him dead on the cold ground, they scarper quick smart and look for some help. When help arrives, however, the quarry is deserted and there is no sign of the body. Were the children mistaken? Is their father not dead? Did he simply get up and run away? It seems like another unusual case requiring the expertise of Kate Shackleton....
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Series
Alex Duggins mystery volume 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Six weeks after a battered body is found in the grounds of the village cricket club, DCI Dan O'Reilly and his team are no further forward in the investigation. No witnesses, no leads, no clues whatsoever. Then a second body is discovered in the nearby tithe barn used by the local amateur dramatics society, artfully posed just like the first. Could there be a serial killer on the loose? When evidence leads O'Reilly to visit the Black Dog pub, owner...
19) Trap Lane
Author
Series
Alex Duggins mystery volume 6
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Although he has always kept his past carefully hidden, as the ever-reliable manager of her well-stocked pub, The Black Dog, Hugh Rhys has Alex Duggins' total trust. However the unexpected arrival of two women from his past raises the fury of the usually even-tempered Hugh, threatens his carefully-crafted reputation and sends shockwaves through the village. When a battered body is discovered in a deep pond near Hugh's estate, Alex and her partner...
20) Whisper the dead
Author
Series
Alex Duggins mystery volume 5
Publisher
Crème de la Crime, an imprint of Severn House Publishers LTD
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Alex Duggins comes across a terrifying scene at the site of a new housing development, once again she is drawn into a case of brutal murder. A new year arrives and winter holds Britain's Cotswold Hills in its icy grip once more. But it's the construction of a new housing development that's causing the residents of Folly-on-Weir most concern. As she passes the site late one afternoon, pub owner Alex Duggins is confronted by the terrifying scene...
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