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Margery Allingham's Mr Campion's Farewell: the Return of Albert Campion Completed by Mike Ripley
Mike Ripley
The Golden Age of British Detective Fiction.
"The idyllic English village of Lindsay Carfax isn't run by the parish council or the local cops as you might suppose. The real bosses are the Carders. They're a syndicate who run this place - with their own rules."
Margery Allingham's Albert Campion returns to centre stage in this quintessentially British mystery, with appearances from all of Allingham's regular characters.
A must for fans of Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.
A Traitor's Tears
Fiona Buckley
When a neighbour is found dead in her front garden, Ursula is pulled into a conspiratorial web.
July, 1573. Recently widowed, Ursula Blanchard is living a quiet life on her Surrey estate, caring for her infant son. But her peaceful existence is shattered when Ursula's neighbour Jane Cobbold is found dead in her own flowerbed, stabbed through the heart with a silver dagger - and Ursula's manservant Brockley is arrested for the crime. Determined to prove Brockley's innocence, Ursula seeks help from her old mentor Lord Burghley. But when a second death occurs and the queen's new spymaster, Francis Walsingham, gets involved, once again Ursula is reluctantly drawn into matters of espionage and affairs of state.
Murder at Mullings
Dorothy Cannell
An intriguing 1930s country house murder mystery: first in the brand-new Florence Norris series.
When there's a brutal murder at Mullings, ancestral home of the wealthy Stodmarsh family, housekeeper Florence Norris and local publican George Bird are determined to protect their nearest and dearest from suspicion. Could there be a connection with the mysterious 'ornamental hermit' who lives on the estate? It's up to Florence to find out.
It's Now or Never
June Francis
Two young women's lives are destined to intertwine in 1950s' Liverpool.
Liverpool, 1955. Actress Dorothy Wilson is offered her first major part in a feature film. But her boyfriend Sam wants her to settle down and start a family. Meanwhile, Lynne Donegan is bringing up her daughter on her own, eking out a meagre living as a dressmaker. The two women's lives are destined to intertwine in ways they could never imagine.
Windswept
Patricia Twomey Ryan
A romantic trip to the Caribbean leads to new friendships . . . and murder.
Emily Harrington sets off on a romantic trip to the Caribbean without her delayed fiancé, but soon meets an array of fascinating characters and finds friendship and tranquility - until one of them is murdered.
Good Man Friday
Barbara Hambly
Benjamin January's search for a missing man takes him into a dark world filled with grave robbers and slave stealers.
New Orleans, 1838. When Benjamin January suddenly finds that his services playing piano at extravagant balls held by the city's wealthy are no longer required, he ends up agreeing to accompany sugar planter Henri Viellard and his young wife, Chloë, on a mission to Washington to find a missing friend. Plunged into a murky world, it soon becomes clear that while it is very possible the Viellards' friend is dead, his enemies are very much alive - and ready to kill anyone who gets in their way.
Even in Darkness
Lynn Hightower
Reclusive Joy Miller receives a package which sparks off a series of tragedies...
Joy Miller, once a famed TV evangelist, retired years before when two tragedies struck her family: the first leading her husband to suicide; the second leaving her son dead and his wife and daughter estranged from her.
She now lives a lonely, reclusive life, until a package arrives in the mail containing graphic photographs of three people she knew long ago - all brutally murdered. When Joy reads the note in the package, she knows immediately who it's from: a ghost from her past, a dangerous individual who knows far too much about the skeletons in Joy's closet. Then people start disappearing ...
Dying Fall
Judith Cutler
Can Sophie Rivers hunt down a college killer before she becomes his next victim?
Sophie Rivers, inner-city lecturer, has a satisfying life in Birmingham, until things go badly wrong. Her student is murdered on college premises, and her best friend is killed on the site of the newly built Music Centre. Everyone but Sophie believes it was an accident. And when someone tries to murder her, she knows she's on the right track.
A Matter of Breeding
J. Sydney Jones
The fifth intriguing novel of suspense in the acclaimed Viennese Mystery series.
1901. Karl Werthen and his colleague, renowned criminologist Dr Hanns Gross, are investigating a bizarre series of murders in the small Austrian town of Graz. Meanwhile, back in Vienna, Karl's wife Berthe is looking into what seems to be a fraudulent breeding scheme involving the prized Lipizzaner horses. Could the two investigations be connected?
A Place of Hope
Anna Jacobs
A devastating accident is only the start of Emily Mattinson's troubles . . .
When Emily Mattison falls victim to a near-fatal accident shortly after receiving an unexpected inheritance from a distant cousin, her ruthless nephew George seizes the opportunity to take control of his aunt's assets. It's only when Emily reaches The Drover's Hope, the former pub on the edge of the Lancashire moors, bequeathed to her by her late cousin Penelope, that she begins to feel safe. She also discovers that love can be found in the most unexpected places. But it's not so easy to escape the clutches of someone as determined as George . . .
