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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 neighbour, 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...
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 20
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English
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"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 stake, Ellie investigates but is soon distracted, not only by the problem of trying to ease Hetty,...
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 22
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English
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When her housing charity is accused of corruption after a student falls to his death, Ellie Quicke fights to save her charity's reputation while trying to figure out whether this death was accidental or intentional.
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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 16
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English
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Ellie Quicke finds herself the target of a local cult-like church, but are their motives truly Christian or is there darkness at their heart? Ellie is desperate to find someone to look after their elderly housekeeper, whose health is failing. But employing a carer found by Ellie's difficult daughter, Diana, proves to be a mixed blessing when Ellie returns from a trip to America to find that carer Claire has implemented a number of bizarre changes...
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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...
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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 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 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...
11) False Name
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Abbot Agency mysteries volume 16
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English
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Bea Abbot is alarmed when she overhears three men plotting a murder outside her agency, then discovers a man left for dead out in the freezing cold, Horrified, Bea offers him sanctuary at her house, but he's reluctant to reveal his identity. Who is he, and why did those men want to kill him? Bea must uncover the truth before they strike again . . .
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Abbot Agency mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Bea Abbot's domestic agency does not, repeat not, investigate murder . . . that is, until she finds herself in the company of a dead man dressed as a pantomime dame. It looks like suicide, but why don't his red-spangled shoes fit? Why is the mans daughter so keen to hustle his mortal remains away without publicity? Then again, which of the women around him--two surviving wives and a daughter--really cared about him, rather than his money?
13) False charity
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Abbot Agency mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2007
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English
14) False pretences
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Bea Abbot runs a domestic agency that doesn't "do" murder. There's nothing sinister about Zander's request for Bea to accompany him on an errand to a grieving widow, but it's awkward because it was Zander who'd exposed the scam that his boss Denzil had been running on the Tudor Housing Trust ... after which Denzil had, expectedly, died. Oliver, Bea's computer geek of an assistant, is delighted to delve into the mysteries left on Denzil's computer....
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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"Ellie Quicke, although comfortably remarried to her best friend Thomas, is still inclined to act hastily. When she took in a young rape victim, she was aware that the commitment might become a burden, but she didn't expect it to become an invitation to murder. Although Mia's stepfamily are in prison violence still seems to dog her every move ... and now Ellie's too. Mia's best friend Ursula is eager to help, but is distracted by her upcoming wedding...
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Ostara Publishing
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Ellie Quicke, fiftyish and recently widowed, is still trying to come to terms with her newly single state. She's coping, just, but could do without everyone else making demands on her; Diana, her selfish daughter, who expects Ellie to drop everything to babysit, the builders working on her new conservatory and her elderly and irritable Aunt Drusilla. To cap it all, ten-year-old Tod, who lives next door, has gone missing.
17) False wall
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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When the party wall dividing the gardens of Bea Abbot and her fianc�e Leon collapses, amongst the ensuing chaos a human skeleton is unearthed in Leon's garden. Having only just purchased the property, Leon and Bea set out to discover more about the house's previous owners. Before they can proceed in their investigation however, the pair fall victim to an elaborately-laid trap. With her home, livelihood and the agency under threat, Bea appears to...
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Publisher
Ostara Pub
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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Ellie Quick, avid gardener and unlikely sleuth, is helping her new neighbors restore the neglected garden on their property. While digging a hole for a fountain, they discover a body. Who was the victim, and how long has the body been there?
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Ostara Publishing
Pub. Date
[2010], 2003
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English
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Adjusting to life as a wealthy widow, Ellie Quicke is shattered to hear that her difficult but endearing Aunt Drusilla has been killed in a freak accident. But what if it were not an accident? The police are suspicious of all those closest to Aunt Drusilla, and Ellie struggles to keep her family from falling apart as each one in turn is suspected of murder.
20) False account
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
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...