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Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Recovering from her husband's death and still a bit influenced by her sleeping pills, Ellie Quicke believes she saw something important on the night that a brutal murder occurred in the church across the street.
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A wealthy widow's aunt is killed in an accident that may not be an accident at all.
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Severn House Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
While out collecting laurel for formidable flower arranger Mrs Dawes, feisty widow Ellie Quicke comes across a corpse without an identity. Next day, Ellie discovers Mrs Dawes badly beaten and close to death. Much to Ellie's dismay, the police think shaven-headed Neil, Mrs Dawes' grandson, is responsible, even after a third body comes to light.
4) False report
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Ellie's always disliked the local big estate agent--aka Great White Shark--so is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she's carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife. But Ellie's soon drawn into the family circle when one of the Hooper children dies in their private gym and another succumbs to a peanut allergy.
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A mysterious bout of sickness hits the parish after a lunch at church, and Ellie is horrified to discover that her home-baked quiches are considered to be the problem. Worse still, someone dies. When more suspect food turns up, Ellie's investigative instincts are aroused, for these incidents seem connected with her friend's troubled past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Newly widowed Bea Abbott must decide what to do with her deceased husband's business, an exclusive organization handling domestic crises. Though Bea is tempted to sell up, she soon begins investigating an accounting irregularity within a catering firm. What Bea doesn't know but will soon discover is that someone is way out of control, and finding it all too easy to kill ...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Velma is charm itself, especially when she's being inexact with the truth. Now she wants Bea, widowed owner of the Abbot Agency, to check up on her stepson Philip, as he's somehow acquired a valuable picture last seen in the flat of an elderly lady who's been murdered.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
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?
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Bea Abbot's asked to find the man or woman who laid a booby trap for Sir Lucas Ossett, the powerful head of an international company, in his own block of flats. She finds Sir Lucas's wife in a state of fear, while gossiping elderly ladies cast doubt on the probity of their eclectic neighbors. Soon it's clear that Sir Lucas's influence reaches out to touch and perhaps corrupt even those nearest to Bea, while trivial incidents escalate into violence--and...
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The body of a young girl is found in next door's neglected garden, to the horror of the occupiers, who are friends of Ellie's. How long has the body been there, and is it someone who once lived there? Ellie seems to be the only person who has known all the families who have lived in the house - a house that seems to attract misery. Tracking down her memories of loud party-givers and possible con men amongst others, Ellie is forced to confront the...
13) False pretences
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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 suggested method of murder involved muddling up pills--could this be how Bunny died, or was it...
15) False conclusion
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Bea Abbot is looking forward to spending the summer with her fourteen-year-old ward, Bernice, but her plans go awry when one of Bernice's schoolfriends finds herself in trouble. Evelina Trescott's uncle has died in a mysterious accident at their country house, and her aunt, Mrs Trescott, is keen to hide Evelina away from the police. Evelina arrives on Bea's doorstep catatonic, heavily drugged up on epilepsy medication and unable to remember finding...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Bea Abbot's friend Leon Holland has asked for her help in establishing an alibi. But why would he need one? First, he tells her, he had a narrow escape from being run down in the road, and then he was lured with a mysterious message to a car park to meet someone who didn't turn up. Matters escalate when two bodies are found in the car park, slumped over their steering wheels, stabbed to death. Then everything is thrown into chaos as a devastating...
17) Murder-in-law
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
18) Murder in time
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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 is a high-flying consultant whose wife cannot have children, and he aims to pay off Vera and adopt Mikey: a suggestion...
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