Download or read book A Little Gentle Sleuthing written by Betty Rowlands and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A gifted and knowledgeable writer . . . engaging and readable' Financial Times Crime novelist Melissa Craig flees London, her agent and her over-protective lover to take refuge in the Cotswolds and produce bestsellers in peace. But a series of bizarre phone calls leads her to a young journalist convinced a real crime has been committed. When a corpse is discovered under the leaf-mould in woodlands, professional curiosity gets the better of judgement. And in the course of her investigations, Melissa finds that the truth is stranger than her own fiction.
Download or read book A Little Gentle Sleuthing written by Betty ROWLANDS and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Little Gentle Sleuthing written by Betty Rowlands and published by Jove Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting up shop in the peaceful Cotswolds, mystery writer Melissa Craig plans her next novel and finds a real-life mystery when a woman's corpse is discovered in a nearby wood. Reprint. PW.
Download or read book Exhaustive Enquiries written by Betty Rowlands and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted and knowledgeable writer . . . engaging and readable' Financial Times Melissa Craig has taken time away from writing bestselling mysteries to script a murder play for an amateur drama group. 'Murder with a giggle' is how she thinks of it. But no one is laughing when a cast member dies in the cellar of the old Cotswold Heyshill Manor Hotel where the play is to be produced. Persuaded by the manager to investigate, Melissa finds . . . nothing. No well-ordered clues, no sure suspects, just lots of tension. Then she chances upon a vital discovery in the hotel's parking lot, and everything begins to fall into place. This isn't a matter of "murderous plots and murky deeds, all in rhyming couplets" but a death-defying journey along a trail of crime on an international scale.
Download or read book No Laughing Matter written by Betty Rowlands and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A gifted and knowledgeable writer . . . engaging and readable' Financial Times Two fatal cases of food poisoning at Framleigh House, the smart residential home where Melissa Craig's mother Sylvia is staying, are treated as accidental by the authorities. To Melissa's consternation, Sylvia has noticed some strange goings-on and decides to do some detective work of her own. And when another resident is taken ill Melissa starts to take her mother's concerns seriously. She begins to investigate with the aid of local journalist Bruce Ingram, and in so doing puts her own life in jeopardy.
Download or read book The Man at the Window written by Betty Rowlands and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham Shipley has come to the Cotswolds to take up a new teaching appointment and to make a fresh start after the break-up of his marriage. He is made welcome by the head of the school and by his new neighbour in Upper Benbury, crime writer Melissa Craig. But shortly after his arrival a young girl is found drowned. Foul play is suspected and when Graham's past threatens to catch up with him, he turns to Melissa for help. She soon discovers that this is not a simple case of murder - there are other, more complex and sinister influences at work in the village. 'Astute characterisation and good local colour . . . engaging and sensitive' Oxford Times
Download or read book Malice Poetic written by Betty Rowlands and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Melissa Craig arrives for a stay in Uphanger Manor in the Cotswolds, she walks straight into an atmosphere of hostility and suspicion, which alerts her crime-writer's mind. Why is the owner, Stewart Miles Haughan, so unpopular with his employees? What lies behind the tension between him and his wife? Who is the composer of the haunting poems that keep appearing among his correspondence, and why is he taking them so seriously? Haughan practically coerces Melissa into trying to track down the anonymous poet. Then things start to turn nasty . . . 'Full of sharp insights with an unexpected twist in the tail' Val McDermid
Download or read book The Fourth Suspect written by Betty Rowlands and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling crime novel and a chilling tale of the emotional power of relationships. Cotswold-based crime writer Melissa Craig has acquired a reputation for solving real mysteries. But when her estranged father is found murdered in his own workshop, events come chillingly close to home. To Melissa's horror, fingerprints found on the murder weapon prove to be those of her mother, whom she hasn't seen for almost 30 years. Determined to prove her mother's innocence, Melissa starts her own investigation and finds her father wasn't quite the puritanical pillar of society he purported to be. And then a second victim is found brutally murdered . . .
Download or read book Smiling at Death written by Betty Rowlands and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a third murder within six months, the residents of Thanebury village now live in fear. Despite her local reputation for solving mysteries, crime writer Melissa Craig has no intention of getting involved - until a fourth victim turns up in her own village of Upper Benbury. As Melissa hunts for clues, a fifth murder occurs, and it becomes clear that at least one very disturbed mind is at work . . . 'All the best ingredients of English crime . . . a novel of sharp insights' Cotswold Life
Download or read book Deadly Legacy written by Betty Rowlands and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A gifted and knowledgeable writer . . . engaging and readable' Financial Times Women in the quiet Cotswold town of Stowbridge are living in fear of a sex strangler. At the same time, surrounding villages are suffering a spate of burglaries, one of which leads to the death of Gloucestershire's most prolific novelist, Leonora Jewell. Crime writer Melissa Craig is persuaded to complete Jewell's unfinished novel and soon suspects that the author's death was not, as was first supposed, accidental. Clues in the script suggest a motive for murder. But as the intrepid writer pieces together the clues - and stumbles across yet another planned twist in Leonora's novel - so the mystery of Stowbridge's crime-wave deepens.
Download or read book Finishing Touch written by Betty Rowlands and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa Craig is a successful crime novelist who has left London to pursue her career in the more relaxed atmosphere of the Cotswolds. It doesn't take her long to discover that fact and fiction are sometimes frighteningly similar, and the gentle country existence she planned for herself is, instead, providing grist for her creative mill. Finishing Touch finds Melissa becoming more involved with the local community, and teaching creative writing at the local Tech. But murder stalks the college art department, reminding both Melissa and Iris, her artist neighbour, of a bizarre event they had witnessed some time before. 'A gently old-fashioned whodunit, riddled with lurking anguish' The Times
Download or read book Over the Edge written by Betty Rowlands and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A gifted and knowledgeable writer . . . engaging and readable' Financial Times Melissa Craig accompanies her artist neighbor Iris to France, where Iris will teach a two-week course at Philippe Bonard's language and culture centre, while Melissa researches Camisard history for her new thriller. Then a former student plummets down a cliff - on the face of it a tragic accident. But the discover, days later, of a second body in almost the identical spot seems to suggest murder instead. And Melissa, uncovering the strange and violent history of the area, and the past treacheries of a Gestapo infiltrator, finds herself drawn yet again into a present-day mystery.
Download or read book Sweet Venom written by Betty Rowlands and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deliciously intriguing mystery with a surprising sting Aidan Cresney seems to be a model citizen. An active member of the parish council and a former barrister, he took up beekeeping as a retirement hobby. Cresney confidently boasts that bees will never attack an apiarist 'who knows what he's doing'. Yet one day he is found dead after suffering multiple stings. When a second family member dies in similar circumstances, tongues begin to wag. And Melissa Craig, the Cotswolds' intrepid crime-writing sleuth, starts to uncover some disturbing secrets.
Download or read book The Cherry Pickers written by Betty Rowlands and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cotswold village of Upper Benbury is buzzing with rumour and gossip. The body of a young gipsy girl has been found in a discarded freezer. A local newshound, hot on the trail of the story, persuades crime writer Melissa Craig to accompany him to the gipsy encampment. Then Melissa learns that members of the victim's family are planning their own brand of justice for the outsider who lured their girl away - and her determination to track down and warn the Romanys' intended victim lands her in grave danger, exposing dark secrets in unexpected places. 'Fresh and lively . . . an enjoyable read with a gratifying array of twists' Shots Magazine
Download or read book Bowker s Guide to Characters in Fiction 2007 written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 3004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murder at Hawthorn Cottage written by Rowlands Betty and published by Melissa Craig Mystery. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Melissa: cat lover, caring mother... daring detective? Melissa Craig is absolutely delighted with her new life in an old crumbling cottage, spending her days pruning the primroses and getting to know Binkie, the ginger cat next door. She only wishes she had made the move to the countryside sooner. But when a knock at the door brings news of a shocking discovery, she suddenly finds herself thrown in to the middle of a baffling mystery: the bones of a young woman have been found in the woods just behind her new home. Perhaps the little village of Upper Bembury is not as idyllic as it first seemed? Strange phone calls in the night convince Melissa that the police are barking up completely the wrong tree, so she can't resist doing a little digging of her own. From the bingo hall to the beauty salon and beyond, her search ruffles a few feathers and uncovers many of the village's most scandalous secrets, but gets her no closer to finding the culprit... The discovery of a tatty old photograph in a drawer is the final piece of the puzzle she needs, but as a newcomer in this close-knit community, does Melissa have what it takes to get to the bottom of this extraordinary murder mystery alone? A joy to read! An absolutely unputdownable whodunnit for fans of Agatha Christie, P.D. James and Faith Martin. This book was previously published as A Little Gentle Sleuthing.
Download or read book The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland 1800 2000 written by Keith D. M. Snell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering and interdisciplinary in nature, this bibliography constitutes a comprehensive list of regional fiction for every county of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England over the past two centuries. In addition, other regions of a usually topographical or urban nature have been used, such as Birmingham and the Black Country; London; The Fens; the Brecklands; the Highlands; the Hebrides; or the Welsh border. Each entry lists the author, title, and date of first publication. The geographical coverage is encompassing and complete, from the Channel Islands to the Shetlands. An original introduction discusses such matters as definition, bibliographical method, popular readerships, trends in output, and the scholarly literature on regional fiction.
