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The Smiler Trilogy 3
The Painted Tent
Victor Canning
Freckled fugitive Smiler is never far from trouble.
After hitching a ride south, Smiler finds his way to North Devon and the estate of the ‘The Duchess’ – a former fairground fortune-teller who now runs a farm. Here, he stays and tends to circus animals housed for the winter.
When a peregrine falcon, Fria, escapes, Smiler must search for ways of helping and recapturing the bird. In doing so, can he solve the problem that has kept him in hiding for so long?
Or does more trouble await?
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Benbow and Wingate 1
The J. Alfred Prufrock Murders
Corinne Holt Sawyer
Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate and two reluctant pals in their retirement community shrug off their infirmities and take to the investigative trail when one of their own, a not-so-sweet busybody named “Sweetie”, is found murdered on the beach.
The four not-so-gentle ladies realise what the young investigating officer has trouble accepting – that even the most seemingly docile among them may be provoked into taking a life, even a series of lives, if the pleasure of the time they have left is threatened.
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The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency 4
The Ghost of Christmas Paws
Mandy Morton
It’s a week before Christmas when Hettie and Tilly set out on a dangerous case for The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency. Lady Eloise Crabstock-Singe has summoned them to Crabstock Manor on the Cornish Coast, convinced a servant cat haunts the Manor intent on killing off all the Crabstocks.
Should they put their trust in Absalom and Lamorna Tweek? What is Evergreen Flinch searching for? And will Saffron Bunn’s cooking get any better?
Through blizzard and storm, stranded on the notorious Bodkin Moor and laid up at Jam Makers Inn, will Hettie and Tilly save the day and get home in time for Christmas dinner?
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The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency 3
The Death of Downton Tabby
Mandy Morton
The town is celebrating its first literary festival, and The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency has been hired to oversee security.
When the body of the most popular author, Sir Downton Tabby, is found in a secluded part of the grounds, however, Hettie and her faithful sidekick Tilly are plunged into crisis as a serial killer stalks the festival.
As the duo turn their attention to investigating the death of Downton Tabby, will there be an author left standing? Will Meridian Hambone sell out of her ‘Littertray’ t-shirts? And will there be enough crime teas to go around?
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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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An Exmoor Harbour Tale 2
Trouble in Combe Tollbridge
a heart-warming, seaside summer read
Roseanna Hall
Combe Tollbridge, on the Exmoor coast, is a quiet fishing village always happy to welcome visitors for the sake of the local economy, but when an irritating journalist looks like staying overtime, a dine-and-dash couple plays tricks in the neighbourhood, and a family with more than one secret to hide features in the national news, the mixed blessing that is tourism becomes all too clear.
Meanwhile Professor Tolliday visits the coastal village for the first time in fifty years with his family. The once irresponsible student has come back to make belated amends, but it is his mischievous little granddaughter whose holiday fun causes the most trouble for the village.
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The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency 5
The Michaelmas Murders
Mandy Morton
As the Town’s annual flower and produce show approaches, it’s all doom and bloom up on the allotments. Prize vegetables are going missing and a dead body is found fertilizing Bonny Grub’s onion patch. Baronial landowner Fluff Wither-Fork is beside herself and calls in the No. 2 Feline Detective Agency.
Who is trying to sabotage the scarecrow competition? And will Hettie Bagshot and her sidekick Tilly get to the bottom of this murky compost heap before judgement day arrives? Amid a sea of binder twine and raised beds, a spiteful killer cat is on the prowl. Who will be next, as the allotment community shake in their wellington boots?
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The Rooks 3
Home Sweet Hell
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch
It’s New Year’s Eve, and the Rook family are at odds with one another.
Unfortunately, not only is their psychic rival Aurora coming to their hometown, but there’s another visitor – Death. The newly appointed Replacement Reaper, who is not grim at all, but a very cute Canadian. He’s here to end the world – albeit ethically and politely. This time, Armageddon is coming home.
Can the family overcome their differences in time to stop the ultimate New Year Countdown? Who is Aurora, really? And, is Death single?
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Marvellous Milne 4
Chloe Marr
A. A. Milne
Chloe Marr is young, beautiful and so irresistible that countless people fall in love with her, and friends are hypnotized by her charm and warmth. Her origins are a mystery and, in London society, such mystique carries both allure and suspicion.
But when an untimely exodus pulls Chloe from the people around her, they soon realise nobody really knows the truth about anybody else…
A. A. Milne’s ability to portray interwar society is second to none, and this classic novel of an elusive Mayfair delivers his signature humour and lightness of touch.
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Marvellous Milne 3
Four Days’ Wonder
A. A. Milne
Jenny Windell is obsessed with murder mysteries, so when she discovers her estranged aunt dead at her country home, the stage is set for her own investigation.
Worried that being the first at the scene of the crime will make her a suspect and ruin her inquiry, she flees. On the run, she befriends Derek Fenton, the dashing younger brother of acclaimed crime writer Archibald Fenton, and persuades him to join her in her attempts to solve the crime and outsmart dim-witted Inspector Marigold.
An affectionate send-up of the classic Golden Age murder mystery, this charming comedy is A. A. Milne at his most delightful.
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