When newly retired headmistress, Harriet Quigley, needs a good rest & somewhere comfortable to recover from a hospital stay, she believes Firstone Grange will be the ideal place. luxurious & perfectly run by a competent & understanding matron, it seems wonderful at first glance. ...

It was the emblematic crime of our moment: On a cold November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man, Mohammed Bouyeri, the son of Moroccan immigrants, shot & killed the celebrated & controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, great-grandnephew of Vincent & iconic European provocateur. ...

An unpleasant newcomer to Camden-sur-Mer resort checks out sooner than she intended... It was the considered view of the elderly residents at the posh retirement community on the California coast that the death by stabbing of Mrs Amy Kinseth (only six weeks after her arrival) occasioned no great loss. There’d be no more of her tasteless display of jewellery, no more overtures of friendship suddenly withdrawn, no more doors slammed in other people’s faces. For Angela & Caledonia, live-wire veterans of an earlier murder investigation at Camden, the case offers a glorious opportunity to have some fun as they help their handsome detective friend, Lieutenant Martinez, with a bit of on-site snooping. It’s soon clear that awful Amy had indeed been up to something fishy. & with the killer still on the scene, intrepid Angela may be the next victim... Product Information: • ISBN: 9781788424813 • Author: Corinne Holt Sawyer • Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers Ltd • Format: Paperback • P... ...

Books Crime Books Ex-journalist violet Brewster is keen to make a good first impression in her new community, having just moved to the small village of Merrywell. When violet hears about the mystery of Helen Slingsby, who disappeared from the village forty years earlier, she decides to help uncover what happened. But despite violet’s best efforts, she can find no trace of the missing woman. As violet talks to the other residents, it becomes apparent that something sinister is lurking beneath the village’s idyllic exterior. When a villager is found dead in their home, violet becomes convinced that the murder is connected to Helen. Did Helen ever really leave Merrywell? Who in the village is hiding something? & can violet finally solve this forty-year-old mystery before someone else gets hurt?   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780008589486 •†Author: Jane Bettany •†Publisher: HQ Digital •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 320 •†Dimensions:† 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm ...

An archaeologist’s wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq…

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Young Harriet & her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stone mason father works.

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Twenty years have passed since the Twentieth Legion defeated the Iceni & they are preparing to celebrate. The guest of honour is Julius Agricola, a former commander. On the eve of his arrival the Senior Centurion is found slumped over his desk. Agricola undertakes an investigation into the murder & discovers there is no shortage of suspects. ...

Murder, stolen plans, a mysterious death & a menage a trois – four intriguing novellas featuring Hercule Poirot…

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RCMP Corporal Paul Blakemore is jolted from his mundane policing duties in the small Monashee Mountain village of Bear Creek by the discovery of a frozen corpse on a snowy slope just outside of town There are no signs indicating how the body got there no footprints or drag marks nothing It s as if the victim has fallen from the sky ...

1866. On a train bound for Portsmouth, an elegant woman shares a compartment with the lecherous Giles Blanchard. It is a lucky encounter for her, as she steps off the train after picking his pocket & in possession of scandalous material for a potential blackmail. It is a less fortuitous meeting for Blanchard, who will never reach his home on the Isle of Wight alive. Detective Inspector Colbeck & Sergeant Leeming are swiftly dispatched to sift through the evidence. With Queen Victoria poised to spend the summer on the isl&, a speedy resolution to the case is imperative for their superiors. Tracing Blanchard’s killer is an endeavour freighted with difficulties, but will the fact that their inquiries lead them to the door of a royal residence be one complication too many? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780749030179 • Author: Edward Marston • Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.61 x 12.8 x 2.59 cm ...