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"The quirky village residents make this an appealing series debut" Library Journal on Murder Visits a French Village Ariel Shepard has spent the last year renovating her beautiful French...

When there's a brutal murder at Mullings, ancestral home of the wealthy Stodmarsh family, housekeeper Florence Norris and local publican George Bird are determined to protect their nearest and...

Newlyweds Donald Langham and Maria Dupr? have moved to the country, but they've barely settled in when a body is found by a standing stone in their neighbour's grounds. Donald and Maria discover...

When criminal-turned-club-owner, Robbie, is murdered, Woodend and Rutter investigate. Why was Robbie's office broken into? What caused Robbie's son-in-law to attack his own brother? Woodend uncovers...

Dorothy Martin is in Wales for an opera full of passion, drama . . . and murder. Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to join their close friends Nigel...

July, 1955. Fellow writer Alastair Endicott has requested Donald Langham's help in discovering what happened to his father Edward, who has disappeared without trace from inside his locked study. The...

Crime-fiction librarian - and reluctant amateur sleuth - Ray Ambler gets mixed up in murder once again when he's called to appraise a mystery-novel collection at an exclusive New York college. An...

December, 1955. Donald Langham is staying at a remote castle in the Scottish Highlands, a guest of his old commanding officer Major Cartwright. Shortly after Donald's arrival, one of his fellow...

A fast-paced thriller set along the Wild Atlantic Way in which smart-mouthed sleuth Jesse O'Hara investigates a missing girl case - with deadly consequences!Jesse, the ever fiery ex-financial...

Crime-fiction librarian Ray Ambler gets more than he bargained for when he acquires the archives of a controversial hardboiled crime author in this contemporary twisty mystery set in New York City...

Crime-fiction librarian Ray Ambler gets more than he bargained for when he acquires the archives of a controversial hardboiled crime author in this contemporary twisty mystery set in New York City...

December, 1956. Donald Langham's wife Maria Dupr?, receives a chilling invitation to attend a death at the home of artist Maxwell Falwell Fenton. Upon arrival, they meet five strangers who have also...

Ellie is desperate to find someone to look after her elderly housekeeper, Rose. But employing a carer proves to be a mixed blessing, for Claire is heavily involved with a local church with a...

London, 1955. When crime writer Donald Langham?s literary agent asks for his help in sorting out ?a delicate matter?, little does Langham realize what he?s getting himself into. For a nasty case of...

Ellie Quicke's latest protégé, the selfish and thoughtless Angelica, is by no means the easiest of house guests. But when a dead body is found in the garden after a riotous party she's organized,...

The shocking death of a student in one of her charity's properties draws Ellie into another dark mystery. Ellie Quicke returns from Canada to find her home in chaos and her housing charity tearing...

Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey is summoned to Cornwall and finds herself embroiled in an investigation involving smugglers, piracy - and rumours of treason. June, 1584. On hearing news of the sudden death...

1920s. Cork, Ireland. Constantly accosted by ambitious, would-be politicians invited by the bishop, the Reverend Mother is finding the week-long sojourn at a convent anything but peaceful. Then a...

A projectionist is shot dead and his grieving widow asks Jessie if she can find out who killed him, but who shot Joe Petrovitch? And how did the murderer leave the movie theatre without being seen?...

Ellie Quicke is back - Ellie and her new husband Thomas are called to deal with student Ursula, who has staged a sit-in at church. Ursula challenges Ellie to solve three mysteries: a broken...

When the body of a mysterious Englishman is found floating in New Orleans' New Basin Canal, Benjamin January uncovers a link to another unsolved murder in Paris nine years before. Now he must unravel...

Ellie's absence abroad is disastrous for her daughter, Diana, when her husband is attacked by intruders and left for dead one night. It falls to Ellie's next-door neighbour, Susan, to reluctantly...

In the new Ellie Quicke mystery, Ellie is forced to think the unthinkable about her own daughter, Diana . . . Could she be a murderer? Ellie has always disliked the local big estate agent, aka Great...

When Poppy Cordover is found dead at the bottom of the office stairs at the Magpie boutique, which she co-owned with her twin sister Juno, the twins' father asks Ellie Quicke to investigate. Ellie's...

Jerusalem, 1100. On returning to the city following an exhausting desert patrol, Crusader knight Sir Geoffrey Mappestone hears screams coming from the house of a Greek baker and discovers that one of...

When Lina Walkenden is found clutching a bloody knife over the dead body of her brother-in-law and guardian, there's only one person she can turn to for help: her childhood friend, Rosamond Jaffrey...

Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey is recruited by Queen Elizabeth I's spymaster to be lady-in-waiting to Lady Mary, a cousin of the queen who is being courted by Russia's Ivan the Terrible. However, there...

Asked to write a celebration of life book for the funeral of a former client, writer for hire Veronica Blackstone finds herself questioning the death. No one quite knows what happened and the...

It's been years since screenwriter Georgie Johansen last visited her aunt Olivia's farm in the coastal town of Twilight Cove and things have certainly changed. First of all it's now an animal...

It?s November and Maggy Thorsen, co-owner of the Wisconsin gourmet coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, is in South Florida at an annual crime-writers? conference with her beau, local sheriff Jake Pavlik,...