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1) False wall
Author
Series
Abbot Agency mystery volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When the party wall dividing the gardens of Bea Abbot and her fiancé 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 be...
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 9
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When Ellie Quickes friend witnesses a Pitbull attack in the park, she goes into shock. Soon there are other attacks ... and after each one, the dog vanishes. Meanwhile, Ellies personal life is heading for meltdown. Driven to distraction, Ellie hardly has time to hunt down a killer dog, and has no idea that she is the next target until the police question her for a crime she didnt commit!
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Ostara Publishing
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Recenty widowed Ellie Quicke investigates when poison pen letters spread suspicion throughout her quiet English parish.
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.
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...
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 ...
10) Murder in mind
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 12
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Ellie's old friend and housekeeper falls off a ladder and hurts herself after seeing a 'ghost' in a neighbour's house - while Ellie is trying to get rid of a desperate young man, who says he's looking for his great aunt ... who happens to own the house in question. Mrs. Pryce had told everyone she was moving to a retirement home, but never arrived there. Someone seems to be tending the vegetables in Mrs. Pryce's garden. Perhaps the house is not as...
12) 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
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Attending a birthday celebration for two young girls, Bea Abbot tries not to let superstition get the better of her when she realizes that there are thirteen people at dinner. What she doesn't anticipate is that the evening will end in sudden, violent death. Chaos descends when a fire breaks out. While two members of the host family are rushed to the hospital, Bea and a fellow guest search for the birthday girls in a house which has been plunged into...
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...
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
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.
17) 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...
18) False diamond
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Bea is drawn back into the questionable doings of the members of the multi-billionaire Holland family, including an engagement with a fake diamond ring, an alleged suicide attempt, an abusive man who tries to put the frighteners on Bea, and the ambiguous behaviour of the black sheep of the family, who turns out to be the joker in the pack"--Author's website.
19) 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
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...
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