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21) Cold wrath
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a hot summer morning, Miles Law cycles into the village of Millington in the Vale of York, on his way to a few hours' work as an under gardener at The Grange. But when he arrives, he finds his employer slumped in an armchair in the drawing room, a bullet wound on his forehead. Miles' employer was a secretive and reclusive man who kept his employees and neighbours at a distance. Who was Anthony Garrett, and who are the three young, identical-looking...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When property developer Connor Clive Blaydon is found dead, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his Yorkshire team dive into the investigation. As luck would have it, someone had installed a cache of spy-cams all around his luxurious home. The team hope that they'll find answers, and the culprit, among the video recordings. Instead of discovering Connor's murderer, however, the grainy and blurred footage reveals another crime: a brutal rape....
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
354 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered in the tranquil grounds of the St Peter's Police Treatment Centre, ... DCI Banks is called in to investigate. ... It emerges that Reid's murder may be linked to the disappearance of an English girl called Rachel Hewitt, in Tallinn, Estonia, six years earlier. ... Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot ... is following up leads in Eastvale. Her investigations take her to the heart of a migrant labor scam ......
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The annual Christmas Game is afoot at Endgame House, the Armitages' grand family home. This year's prize is to die for--deeds to the house itself--but Lily Armitage has no intention of returning. She hasn't been back to Endgame since her mother died twenty-one years ago, and she has no intention of claiming the house that haunts her dreams. Until, that is, she receives a letter from her aunt promising that the game's riddles will give her the keys...
25) Midnight fugue
Author
Series
Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 24
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
362 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It starts with a phone call to Superintendent Dalziel from an old friend asking for help. But where it ends is a very different story. Gina Wolfe has come to mid Yorkshire in search of her missing husband, believed dead. Her fiancee, Commander Mick Purdy of the Met, thinks Dalziel should be able to take care of the job. What none of them realize is how events set in motion decades ago will come to a violent head on this otherwise ordinary summer's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape Cromwell's raiders; now, into Keldale's old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley to solve a savage murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
519 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Some say that Andy Dalziel wasn't ready for God, others that God wasn't ready for Dalziel. Either way, despite his recent proximity to a terrorist blast, the Superintendent remains firmly of this world. And, while Death may be the cure for all diseases, Dalziel is happy to settle for a few weeks' care under a tender nurse. Convalescing in Sandytown, a quiet seaside resort devoted to healing, Dalziel befriends Charlotte Heywood, a fellow newcomer and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Nothing ever happens in August, and tenacious sleuth Kate Shackleton deserves a break. Heading off for a long-overdue holiday to Whitby, she visits her school friend Alma who works as a fortune teller there. Kate had been looking forward to a relaxing seaside sojourn, but upon arrival discovers that Alma's daughter Felicity has disappeared, leaving her mother a note and the pawn ticket for their only asset: a watch-guard.What makes this more intriguing...
29) Telling tales
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
It has been 10 years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of 15-year-old Abigail Mantel. Now new evidence has proved Jeanie's innocence. On hearing the news, Emma Bennett is haunted once more by memories of her vibrant best friend, Abigail, and by the thought that her killer is still at large. As Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh enquiries amongst the residents of Elvet, the small East Yorkshire village where Emma and Abigail grew up, inevitably,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can talk to animals. Then one day, Mary discovers the most mysterious wonder of all -- a secret garden, walled and locked, which has been forgotten for years and years. With the help of two unexpected companions,...
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