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A Follet Valley Mystery 4
Death in le Jardin
the unputdownable new cosy murder mystery
Ian Moore
On the surface, Richard Ainsworth has life where he wants it. Middle-aged navel gazing and Olympic levels of procrastination are exactly what rural life in France should be about.
Then crisis hits his posh B&B when redoubtable housekeeper, Madame Tablier, is accused of murdering a former fiancé. An accusation which the stubborn old woman refuses to deny.
Valérie d’Orçay is having none of it and their investigation leads them to a strange tourist garden village, where backbiting, recriminations and former colleagues provide a deadly scenario more tangled than knotweed.
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The Complete Short Stories of A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne, Gyles Brandreth
A new collection of A. A. Milne’s short stories for grown-ups. Gathered in full for the first time, they include several never published before. They show Milne’s renowned charm, concision and whimsical flair in all their brilliance.
He paints memorable scenes – from a children’s birthday party, to an accidental encounter with murder, and a case of blackmail – often with an unexpected twist. But he also deals in poignancy, from the girl who pulls the wool over her boyfriend’s eyes, to a first dance and first disappointment or family reunion and domestic dissonance.
Beguiling and evocative, Milne’s thought-provoking stories for adults will make you see his works for children in a whole new light.
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Benbow and Wingate 7
The Geezer Factory Murders
Corinne Holt Sawyer
Irrepressible amateur sleuths Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate are in action again. The ladies’ plush retirement home at Camden-sur-Mer is absorbing tenants from a rival establishment, The Golden Years, which the heroines have appropriately dubbed ‘The Geezer Factory’ since it transforms normal senior citizens into disgruntled geezers.
The influx of new neighbours is just the sort of excitement Angela and Caledonia have been hoping for, and sure enough, things soon begin to look up. When a new resident of Camden-sur-Mer is found face-down in the fountain, an earlier accidental death at The Geezer Factory suddenly looks very suspicious. Over the protests of their favourite policeman, Lieutenant Martinez, Angela and Caledonia are galvanized into action.
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Murder by Owl Light
Corinne Holt Sawyer
For those far-from-over-the-hill senior sleuths, Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate, the murder of the gardener at posh Camden-sur-Mer retirement complex is a delightful break in their rather dull routine. Unfortunately, a bad-tempered police officer warns the ladies to stick to knitting.
Yet Angela and Caledonia refuse to be intimidated. They’re off and running, bird-dogging a murderer as resourceful as themselves – and as shadowy as the owl light of dusk that conceals his deadly work…
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The Ha-Ha
a feel-good comedy of friends reunited
Tom Shakespeare
Fred Twistleton is about to turn forty. Gathering with his friends to celebrate at a rented stately home, he finally hopes to get together with his college crush, the woman of his dreams, Heather. But Fred is also keen to publish his memoirs, and Heather realises the revelations they contain could threaten her career as a high-flying foreign correspondent.
When the treasured manuscript goes missing under mysterious circumstances, Fred’s at a loss. Could someone have stolen it? Where has the resident pig gone? And will all the group remain friends by the end of the weekend? With burst pipes, sunken kayaks, and suspicious puddings, thank goodness Fred is only going to have one fortieth birthday.
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Benbow and Wingate 5
Murder Has No Calories
Corinne Holt Sawyer
When a beautiful staff member at a luxurious California boot camp is found brutally murdered, the owner pleads with the plucky senior sleuths, Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate, to investigate. Angela and Caledonia quickly join the party at The Time-Out Inn to check out their fellow guests: nice ladies on the surface, but beneath one of those mud-packs lurks a killer.
And it’s too bad that Angela and Caledonia’s impulsive detective work is pushing them towards a fate far worse than aerobics. Namely, death…
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Hope
'Tragicomic, piercingly satirical and perceptive about the American dream' Observer
Andrew Ridker
‘Tragicomic, piercingly satirical and perceptive about the American dream’ Observer
‘Dark, funny and delightfully unhinged… I just loved this book’ Viv Groskop, author of One Ukrainian Summer
The Greenspan family are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts. Scott Greenspan is a successful cardiologist. His wife is a pillar of the community, his daughter works at a distinguished New York publishing house and his son is at medical school, preparing to follow in his footsteps. They are an exceptional family, living in exceptional times.
But when Scott is caught faking blood test results, he sets in motion a series of scandals that threatens to shatter his family. HOPE is an excruciatingly funny account of the tumultuous year that follows, written by one of the most brilliant young American novelists at work today.
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Murder in Gray and White
Corinne Holt Sawyer
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 and 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. And with the killer still on the scene, intrepid Angela may be the next victim…
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The Peanut Butter Murders
Corinne Holt Sawyer
The dead man was a mere fifty, too young to have much in common with the well-heeled oldsters at the beautiful Camden-sur-Mer retirement community in southern California. His death looks like an accident, but when those ever-alert senior sleuths Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate discover that he was courting one of their neighbours, they can’t help hoping they’ll luck into a nice murder investigation.
A second murder confirms their suspicions that a dangerous killer is on the loose. But between Angela’s shameless curiosity and Caledonia’s blitzkrieg, a mere murderer hasn’t a chance. Unless he can eliminate them, too…
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The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency 13
The Suspicions of Mr Whisker
Mandy Morton
Hettie Bagshot and Tilly Jenkins are hired to investigate a spate of mysterious deaths at Mr Whisker’s Academy for Wayward Cats. Before Tilly even opens her notebook, the hockey mistress is brutally murdered on the playing field.
Faced with an increasing body count, our feline detectives sharpen their claws and set out to catch a serial killer. Did Pomadora Moseley really murder her family on the rollercoaster at Butlins? Is Clara Toddlebury’s Country Dance Class under threat? And why does Mr Whisker lock himself in his headmaster’s study?
Join Hettie and Tilly as they chalk up another case, revealing a school full of scandal, a dormitory of death and the latest Butters’ pie filling.
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