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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First St. Martin's Minotaur edition.
Language
English
Description
For years, a middle-aged, middle-of-the-road couple, Max and Amanda, had enjoyed each other's company in their modest home. With adult children, the two seemed to have everything they could want: health, some wealth and happiness. Until one day when they vanish, leaving behind no trace.
Called in for the case, Detective Inspector George Hennessey, whose own life bespeaks horrible tragedy, automatically suspects foul play. His hunch proves a keen...
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
Queen Elizabeth's proposed engagement to a Catholic Duke is causing turmoil throughout the kingdom in the gripping new Ursula Blanchard mystery. July 1579. Called upon to help a family friend who is horrified at the return of her errant husband after an absence of thirty years, little does Ursula realize that her involvement in the Harrison family's domestic dramas will lead to a case of cold-blooded murder. Matters become even more complicated when...
3) Gift wrapped
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
When four postcards are sent anonymously to the staff of an advice center, each with the word "murder" scribbled in a foreign language and the same precise map coordinates, the police are called. DCI Hennessey of the Vale of York police and his team of detectives visit the sinister location and make a chilling discovery: the body of a professional man who had been reported missing ten years earlier. Who sent the postcards, and why so long after the...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one dreamed something so hideous could grow in so beautiful a place... Many who visit the valley are overwhelmed by its majesty. Some wish they never had to leave. One didn't: a hiker whose decomposing corpse is discovered by an unsuspecting tourist. But this strange, incomprehensible murder is only the edge of the darkness that hovers over a small rural village and its tight-lipped residents, who guard shattering secrets of sordid pasts and private...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Erin Coleridge's used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England is a meeting place for the villagers and, in particular, for the local Jane Austen Society. At the Society's monthly meeting, matters come to a head between the old guard and its young turks. After the meeting breaks for tea, persuasion gives way to murder--with extreme prejudice--when president Sylvia Pemberthy falls dead to the floor. Poisoned? Presumably...but by whom?...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Revelatory investigation into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper Case, which spanned over 14-years. For the first time, the files have been opened, the detectives are talking, and the victims are reliving the nightmare. For almost 20-years the dark secrets of the biggest criminal manhunt in British history have remained a closed book. Detectives have refused all requests to tell the inside story of an investigation that logged 2-million manhours...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Susan McCarthy is a health centre manager in the Yorkshire Dales, engaged to be married to geography teacher Rob Dugdale. Her life couldn't be happier. Except Susan McCarthy isn't Susan McCarthy at all, but Jennifer Reynolds, a young woman who has succeeded in escaping a deeply unhappy past.Then a TV programme is broadcast examining the mystery of three women who disappeared without trace, one of them being Jennifer Reynolds. The following day, a...
Author
Series
Tommy and Evelyn Christie mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Tommy & Evelyn Christie have reluctantly agreed to host the wedding of Tommy's mother to Andrew Parsons, the Marquess of York, at their home Hessleham Hall. None of the happy couple's adult children support the marriage but when Andrew is found dead outside the wedding chapel on the morning of his wedding it seems one of them has taken their anger a step too far. To make matters worse, Tommy's younger brother, Harry, is missing and quickly becomes...
Author
Series
Tommy and Evelyn Christie mystery volume 04
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Tommy & Evelyn Christie were hoping for a break from solving murders when they agreed to host Aunt Victoria and her daughters, Madeleine and Elise at their London home in Belgrave Square. Recently widowed Victoria has returned from France for the London Season and to mend bridges with her estranged family. None of them were prepared for the doubly shocking sight of a newborn baby and a dead body on the back doorstep of their imposing London residence....
Author
Series
Abbess of Meaux mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"Late December, 1389. Ordered to undertake a gruelling three-day journey to bleak Whitby Abbey in the far north of England in a bid to purchase the Abbey's priceless Holy Relic a lock of St Hild's hair, said to be 700 years old, Hildegard of Meaux and her three companion monks arrive to find the Abbey a decidedly unwelcoming place, a place of strange customs and practices very different to their modest lifestyle at Meaux. Nor, as Hildegard discovers,...
Author
Series
Tommy and Evelyn Christie mystery volume 02
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Evelyn Christie, the new Lady Northmoor, is looking forward to hosting the local village fete in the grounds of Hessleham Hall. However, the last thing she expects to see on the morning of the fete is the local Member of Parliament face down in the stream at the edge of the lawn! Evelyn and her husband, Tommy, are again called into action to find the dastardly murderer before he strikes again!" -- provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Tommy and Evelyn Christie mysteries volume 01
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Evelyn Christie has resigned herself to another long, boring weekend at Hessleham Hall, the home of her husband, Tommy's, family. However, it turns out to be anything but dull when his uncle, the Earl of Northmoor, is shockingly murdered! Evelyn must use all of her sleuthing knowledge, gained whilst she was a member of the Police force during the war, to find out who the murderer is before the bungling local police force decide the Earl was bumped...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A young woman is unconscious, bleeding from a head wound. Hiding in the cellar is her husband, ready to wield a knife at anyone who tries to enter, desperate to protect his secret. What happens next leaves one of the officers dead, the other fighting for her career and Inspector Banks with a chilling murder investigation that will test him to the limit. The beauty and tranquility of England's Yorkshire Dales provides a striking and contrasting backdrop...
Author
Series
Tommy and Evelyn Christie mystery volume 03
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When the body of Isolde Newley's long lost husband is found in the grounds of St Augustus churchyard, suspicion falls on Isolde and everyone close to her - especially her new love interest, the dashing Dr Mainwaring. The mystery is exacerbated by the largest snowfall seen in North Yorkshire for years. No one can get in - or out - of the village. It will take all of Tommy & Evelyn Christie's sleuthing powers to clear their friends and find the murderer...
20) Remember me
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
U.K. edition.
Language
English
Description
When retiree Tom Parfitt stages a fall in his eerie Yorkshire home in order to escape into residential care, a chilling mystery unfolds, challenging police detective Rob Fairholme and care worker Hannah Ward to risk everything they hold dear to unravel the truth.
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