Anthea Fraser, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-11902-7
The latest in the series whose titles come from the English folksong, ``Green Grow the Rushes-O,'' requires Detective Chief Inspector David Webb to face troubling aspects in his past while investigating a murder. When old Billy Makepeace is murdered
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Anthea Fraser. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8790-0
Sexual peccadillos drive the plot of this well-crafted standalone from British author Fraser (A Tangled Thread) about three families, each with its own secrets and long-buried resentments. Mark Richmond, who has problems at home and at work, is...
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Anthea Fraser. Severn, $28.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8549-4
This baffling standalone from British author Fraser (The Unburied Past) deals sensitively with issues of family and relationships. In East Sussex, piano teacher Jill Lawrence is content to share a house with her grown daughter and her daughter’s...
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Anthea Fraser. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8418-3
Those who are content to meander through an English country town full of characters mostly irrelevant to the central plot will best appreciate Fraser’s leisurely ninth Rona Parish mystery (after 2012’s A Question of Identity). Rona has just...
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Anthea Fraser. Severn, $27.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8111-3
Character rather than police procedure drives this suspenseful mystery from British veteran Fraser (Shifting Sands). In 1986, the double slaying of Mark and Emma Franklyn at their home in the Lake District results in the separation of their two...
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Anthea Fraser. Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8168-7
In Fraser’s engrossing eighth Rona Parish mystery (after 2010’s Unfinished Portrait), biographer Rona must delay her latest project, a book about painter Elspeth Wilding, to delve into a pair of mysteries. Her twin sister, Lindsey, has sought out...
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Anthea Fraser, Author Severn House Publishers $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5965-5
Biographer Rona Parish finds herself in dangerous waters as she delves into the life of Theo Harvey.
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Anthea Fraser, Author Severn House Publishers $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5140-6
Fraser's latest effort (after I'll Sing You Two-O) is a neo-gothic page-turner with all the right elements. Innocent Emily Barton leaves the security of her London home to take a position in Cornwall as live-in secretary to moody mystery author...
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Anthea Fraser, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14623-8
Titled after an old English folksong, the latest in the Inspector Webb series (after The Gospel Makers) has Webb investigating the deaths of two young men, twins, whose bodies are found in an abandoned van outside the house of Monica Tovey, a...
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Anthea Fraser, Author Severn House Publishers $20 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4772-0
Set in England's lush lake country, this new novel by the author of Six Proud Walkers is a brisk but forgettable tale of psychic intrigue. The serene village of Crowthorpe has always been home to an unlikely number of twins--and the number grows by...
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Anthea Fraser, Author . Severn $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5726-2
A long-unsolved crime haunts French teacher Annabel Kendal in this compelling traditional mystery by prolific British author Fraser (The Twelve Apostles, etc.). When Annabel and her husband, Simon, get invited to her grandmother's annual...
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Anthea Fraser, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13979-7
Shillingham, England's Detective Chief Inspector David Webb confronts two seemingly unrelated problems in this 11th in the series (after Three, Three the Rivals). When he is told that a new religious cult has invaded the area, he assigns Detective...
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Anthea Fraser, Author Doubleday Books $12.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-385-23798-7
Actress Jessica Randal has been incapacitated by a broken leg, and both she and her husband of eight weeks, author Matthew Selby, think they will have a month of tranquility and convalescence when they rent Hinckley cottage near the rustic English...
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Anthea Fraser, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-20915-5
DCI David Webb features once again in Fraser's successful series (I'll Sing You Two-O, etc.), set in a small English town. A man's body is discovered in a pub car park, identity unknown. Similarities between this murder and an unsolved case from six
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Anthea Fraser, Author Minotaur Books $20.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-19309-6
This wonderfully puzzling mystery performs an about-face deep into the story when, in a contrived and illogical internal monologue, the killer boasts about the crime. Until this disconcerting moment, the prolific author of the DCI David Webb series (
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Anthea Fraser, Author Doubleday Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-24615-6
The wealthy and prestigious Walker family live in the tranquil English village of Honeyford, giving Fraser ( A Shroud for Delilah ) another chance to combine a charming locale and quiet good manners with several horrifying and bloody murders....
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Anthea Fraser, Author Severn $28.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6884-8
British veteran Fraser’s artfully plotted seventh Rona Parish mystery (after 2008’s Next Door to Murder
) focuses on the hunt for brilliant artist Elspeth Wilding, biographer Rona’s latest subject, who’s been missing for 18...
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Anthea Fraser, Author . Severn $28.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6752-0
Three separate lives eerily intersect in this effective if lightweight mystery from U.K. veteran Fraser (Next Door to Murder
). Whenbusinessman James Markham dumps his fiancée to marry a near stranger, his family is suspicious of his elusive...
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Anthea Fraser, Author . Severn $28.95 (218p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6614-1
In Fraser's leisurely sixth Rona Parrish cozy (after 2007's Rogue in Porcelain
), the freelance journalist and her artist husband, Max Allerdyce, are used to knowing little about the tenants who come and go at the four-story Georgian house
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Anthea Fraser, Author . Severn $28.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6485-7
The stately pace and tame revelations of the latest Rona Parish mystery from British veteran Fraser (A Family Concern
) make it especially suitable for genteel readers. For a Chiltern Life
magazine series on family businesses, Rona interviews...
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Anthea Fraser. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5058-4
Since Rose Linscott, the matriarch at the center of this straightforward standalone from British author Fraser (Sins of the Fathers), is highly critical of her grown children and their offspring, they keep certain family secrets from her, most of...
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Anthea Fraser. Severn, $29.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0978-8
The deaths of Charles and Sarah Drummond in their home in Dorset while their two small daughters, Abby and Mia, sleep upstairs propel this stellar standalone from Fraser (The Ties That Bind). The police conclude that Charles strangled Sarah, then...
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