Judith Cutler
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Kate Power mysteries volume 1
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Introducing Birmingham Detective Sergeant Kate Power, exiled from London's Metropolitan Police by personal tragedy and making a new start in the distant outpost of Birmingham CID. Her new Brummie bosses are good men, for the most part, but they can't seem to let their new female colleague alone long enough to get on with her job. Kate is anxious to lose herself in her work, and before too long a case comes along that will consume her in a way she...
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"Newly appointed as land agent to the youthful Lord Croft, Matthew Rowsley finds plenty to keep him busy as he attends to his lordship's neglected country estate. But he's distracted from his tasks by the disappearance of a young housemaid. Has Maggie really eloped with a young man, as her mother attests - or is the truth rather more sinister? What's been going on behind the scenes at the grand country estate . and where has his lordship disappeared...
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While hosting a group of academics at Thorncroft House, Harriet and Matthew Rowsley find themselves confronted with bigger - and bloodier! - issues than unruly guests . . . The fifth instalment of the Harriet and Matthew Rowsley Victorian mystery series sets in England during the great Victorian era.
June 1861, Victorian England. A house full of academics should imply calm and quiet, but much to housekeeper Harriet Rowsley's dismay some of the guests...
4) Dying Fall
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Sophie Rivers, inner-city college lecturer and amateur singer, has a satisfying life in Birmingham: a job she enjoys, a close circle of friends. Then, suddenly, things go badly wrong. One of her students is murdered on college premises; worse still, her best friend George meets a tragic end on the site of the newly built Music Centre.Everyone believes his death was an accident – everyone except Sophie. Determined to find his killer, she starts asking...
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Stranded at a house party - when a murderer strikes!
May 1861, Victorian England. When Matthew and Harriet Rowsley are invited to a house party at Clunston Park by Matthew's cousin, Colonel Barrington Rowsley and his wife Lady Hortensia, Harriet is nervous - surely the aristocratic guests will snub her? After all, they are but mere servants in their eyes! Her fears are realised on their first evening when the only person who deigns to speak to her...
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When the family butler is brutally attacked, land agent Matthew Rowsley and his wife Harriet determine to find the culprit in this gripping Victorian mystery.
With his lordship's mental health failing, management of his grand country estate has been assigned to a group of trustees, including land agent Matthew Rowsley and his capable wife Harriet. But the smooth running of Thorncroft House is disrupted by a series of unforeseen events. Building work...
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Lecturer Sophie Rivers' writing course on the outskirts of Birmingham is far from an exotic holiday. Still, creative inspiration might strike. But then, knowing Sophie's luck, so might a murderer…She can hardly believe it when, soon after the course begins, a fellow student is found dead in her room. Sophie hadn't liked glamorous nymphomaniac Nyree much, but she hadn't deserved to die. And when a course tutor goes missing, it's clear that one of...
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The latest intriguing mystery featuring feisty antiques dealer Lina Townend. It's a busy weekend for Lina: she wins a dance competition, annoys a valuable client and has to play gooseberry when Griff, her business partner, meets an old flame. Killing time, she drives across Dartmoor, only to find two men robbing a medieval church. Outraged, she manages to stop them – only to discover that it's not just in Devon that they are working. Safely back...
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Sophie Rivers joins the university choir, but hopes of musical harmony are dashed by appearances from beyond the grave, bribery and murder.
Sophie Rivers is studying for a degree at the University of the West Midlands. When she joins the university choir, Sophie finds that her young colleagues treat her as an honorary aunt, pouring their neuroses onto her shoulders instead turning to their tutors.
But the teaching staff have enough of their...
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Introducing unconventional rector's wife and amateur sleuth Jodie Welsh in the first of a brand-new mystery series…
Highflying city career woman Jodie Welsh was prepared for a dramatic change in lifestyle when she met and married the Reverend Theo Welsh, settling down to an entirely new kind of life as the wife of a country vicar in the picturesque village of Lesser Hogben. But if she thought life as a city deal-maker was tough, nothing could have...
11) Silver Guilt
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A Lina Townend mystery - Lina Townend is making a name for herself as an antiques dealer, in partnership with her old friend, Griff Tripp. When she is accused of stealing an item she is selling for her father, the disreputable Lord Elham, her plight attracts the attention of Piers, a handsome fellow dealer. But is Piers all he seems? And what about the kindly policeman investigating the case? There's only one person she can really trust – Griff....
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Why would anyone want him dead?Rock musician Andy Rivers has hordes of adoring fans and campaigns for one good cause after another. So why would anyone want him dead? It begins harmlessly enough: mild vandalism, funeral flowers left on the bonnet of his car, but suddenly it becomes clear that Andy's persecutor is deadly serious.
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The third crime novel featuring Sophie RiversSophie seems to have fallen on her feet when she gets a new job - at George Muntz College, which is just yards from her Birmingham home and has lavish facilities and equipment. But she is soon to learn that all is not as comfortable as it seems.
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Sophie Rivers' hopes for a peaceful sabbatical are squashed when she becomes the victim of a terrifying stalker at a literary festival.
Sophie Rivers is on a year's sabbatical from her teaching job at William Murdock College, and is enjoying spending time with her fiancé Mike Lowden and volunteering at the Big Brum Bookfest - an exciting new literary festival. But someone is determined to sabotage the event. Phone calls and letters threaten the...
15) Dying to Deceive
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A valuable collection of cricket memorabilia leads Sophie Rivers into a terrifying mix of intimidation, violence and murder.
Sophie Rivers is offered a temporary job at Warwickshire Cricket Club, archiving a collection of memorabilia, and jumps at the chance to spend more time with her new husband, England cricketer Mike Lowden. But once news gets out that the bequest contains some priceless objects, Sophie and her colleagues become the victims...
16) Dying to Score
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Sophie Rivers is finally on holiday! She's left behind the stresses of a tough job teaching at a deprived inner -city college in Birmingham, and has just started seeing the delectable Mike Lowden, one of the country's most exciting cricketers. When he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in the particularly nasty murder of a not-so-popular rival cricketer, Sophie's got too much to lose to remain merely a spectator...
Her old friend Chris Groom, now...
17) Dying for Power
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Sophie Rivers, a lecturer at a college of further education, is shaken when a spate of fires leads to the death of a young teacher.
For Sophie Rivers, tackling newly imposed profit margins and a disruptive Fundamentalist movement means that teaching comes low on the agenda. When a young teacher dies, victim of a series of arson attacks at William Murdock College of Further Education, another teacher is attacked, and a women's safe hostel is razed...
18) Dying by Degrees
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Sophie Rivers finds that her struggles with her course take a back seat when she's caught up in a deadly web of corruption and murder.
Sophie Rivers is struggling with her course at the University of the West Midlands, her fellow student Jago Calvin is harassing her and she's missing the love-of-her-life, Mike Lowden. Sophie confides in the excellent lecturer Carla Pentowski about her problems. But there's something strange about Carla's past - or...
19) Guilt Edged
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When a middle-aged woman enters Lina Townend's antiques shop wanting to sell a white Beswick china horse which she claims is a cherished heirloom, Lina's instincts tell her to avoid the sale. Suddenly, wherever she goes, Lina sees the supposedly rare white horses. Something strange is afoot, but it is only the tip of the iceberg. Soon, with her business partner Griff laid up in hospital and her relationship with her boyfriend Morris floundering, Lina...
20) Guilt Trip
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In this charming British mystery, antiques dealer Lina Townend must contend with a prankster takes things dangerously too far. Things in Lina Townend's life could be better. Her love life is in a holding pattern and her business is faltering now that a new antiques center with very reduced prices-and less attention to detail-has opened up nearby. Lina doesn't quite know what to do about her own problems, but when a local theater director asks her...