Veronica Heley
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 17
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English
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Ellie Quicke finds you can choose your friends but not your family. Poppy's wealthy father hadn't liked the look of the men whom his twin daughters intended to marry, and had set them up in the Magpie fashion boutique to ensure they would be able to support themselves; at the same time ensuring that the girls made a will in one another's favour. The business prospered and expanded until, many years later, skeletons start to come out of the closet....
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 15
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English
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Ellie Quicke has her work cut out when past wrongdoings put the future of a child she's grown to love at stake….
Ellie opens the door to a man who is a stranger but instantly recognisable as the father of her housekeeper's brilliant but difficult young son. Mikey had been conceived at a party during which his mother Vera, a schoolgirl, had been drugged and raped. Abdi hadn't wanted anything further to do with her – then. Twelve years later he...
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 16
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English
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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 charismatic pastor, who -- seemingly coincidentally -- is looking to Ellie's charitable trust for financial help. Can Ellie trust Claire and Pastor Ambrose?
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 13
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English
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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 White Shark – and is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she is carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife. But Ellie is soon drawn into the family circle when one of the Hooper children dies in their private gym and another...
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 14
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English
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Ellie's friend on the police force asks her to enquire about some deaths in the community which might or might not be suicide, and various relatives of the deceased confirm their suspicions. Unbeknown to the police, an elderly lady moving in and out of dementia has come across some drugs and is using them to ease people in pain out of their misery. At the same time, the project to turn the quirky, turreted Pryce House into a hotel is dogged by problems...
6) False Name
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Abbot Agency mysteries volume 16
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English
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Bea's life is turned upside down when a man is left for dead outside her agency office in this gripping mystery.
Bea Abbot overhears three men plotting a murder outside her garage, only to discover the intended victim – a young man who appears to be a rough sleeper – has been left there to die in freezing weather. Somewhat reluctantly, she gives him sanctuary but finds him unwilling to disclose his name or talk about his ordeal.
Who is determined...
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 20
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English
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The kindness of strangers comes under suspicion in the enjoyable new Ellie Quicke mystery.
Ellie's husband Thomas, a retired minister, is suspicious when he receives not one but five letters advising him that he has been bequeathed money by five different people in their wills. He barely knew three of his benefactors, and what could possibly connect him to the other two strangers?
Sensing something isn't right, and with Thomas's reputation at...
8) Longsword
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Cast out in disgrace from the family estate, dashing young Sir Gervase Escot was drawn towards the great castle at Malling… For there lived the much-courted beauty, Lady Elaine, to whom Gervase was once to have been betrothed. Rescuing a young girl from robbers, Gervase discovered that she was Elaine's sister, the Lady Beata – a rebellious girl pledged from birth to the church. Would Gervase ever be able to reveal his true identity to Beata? Could...
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He was like no other hermit she had ever seen. He was young, strong, dark and vowed to silence. His name was Keren, but he was always called the Hermit. And as he touched her arm, and healed it, a bond was forged between them – a hopeless bond, for she was Joanna of Leybourne, ward of the Count, and he was a man sentenced to build a church with his bare hands, as expiation for the crime of murdering his wife. . . This title was originally published...
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When the family castle is besieged by an ancient enemy, Ursula rides of help to Aylmer, who has asked for her hand in marriage. Ursula admires and respects Aylmer, who is much older than she. He loves her dearly and promises to help lift the siege. Aylmer offers the services of Benedict de Huste, a young man with a tragic past whom Aylmer regards as an adopted son. Together Ursula and Benedict fight a double battle. They fight for their lives in the...
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 19
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English
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Murder is no joke, as Ellie Quicke is only too aware in this absorbing and entertaining mystery.
Ellie Quicke is shocked when her daughter, Diana, turns up at her door with a suitcase in tow. Bunny Brewster has died of an overdose, and Diana's husband, Evan, is convinced that she is responsible for his friend's death. It seems that Diana and four other neglected, bored wives of Evan's friends recently joked about ways to kill their husbands. Diana's...
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 18
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English
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"No good deed goes unpunished, as Ellie Quicke finds out in this engaging and entertaining mystery.Ellie Quicke believes in helping people in trouble. But it would appear that her latest good deed has returned to bite her when she takes in a weeping girl who needs somewhere to stay. Selfish, thoughtless and irresponsible, Angelica is by no means the easiest of house guests, confident that someone else will always pick up the bill. But when a dead...
13) Murder In Law
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 21
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English
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While Ellie's away, murder will play...Is the death of Ellie's son-in-law really the result of a burglary gone wrong?
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 neighbor , Susan, to reluctantly pick up the pieces and take in Diana's children.
Is Evan's death really the result of a burglary gone wrong? Joining forces with her aunt,...
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 22
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English
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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 itself apart. A student has fallen to his death from the top of one of the charity's properties, let through a reputable local estate agency. Accused of corruption, the agency is the victim of a vicious social media campaign.
Was the student's death really...
15) The Tarrant Rose
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Raven-haired Sophia knew him as Philip Rich, a poor relative of the Earl of Rame. And she knew that he awakened in her a craving that her betrothed, Sir John Bladen, could not satisfy. But she was pledged to wealthy Sir John in order to save her beloved Tarrant Hall. So she scorned Philip's love only to discover, to her horror, that he was, in reality, the famous Earl himself. And now the Earl has vowed to humble Sophia and to avenge his honor. His...
19) False account
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Severn House
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2019.
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English
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"Wealthy Marcia Tredgold and her daughter, Charlotte, want Bea Abbot to find them replacements for staff who have left under a cloud. Bea discovers that all those dismissed were close to Marcia Tredgold, and senses that something is not right. Were they framed, and if so by whom - and why? Even more curiously, when Marcia Tredgold gets Bea alone, she asks her to find out who killed her two cats. Bea resists becoming involved in the strange goings-on...
20) False report
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Severn House Publishers
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2012.
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English
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While Bea Abbot worries that she's lost control of her domestic agency, she's asked to find some domestic help for an eccentric musician falsely accused of murder. She doesn't realize how dangerous this might be until Jeremy--fleeing from attempts on his life--lands on her doorstep.