Books by Margaret Duffy and Complete Book Reviews
Margaret Duffy, Author . Severn $28.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6688-2
In British author Duffy's 12th mystery to feature husband-wife team Ingrid Langley and Patrick Gillard (after 2007's Cobweb
), the former MI5 agents now working for SOCA (the Serious and Organized Crime Agency) go in search of criminal...
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Margaret Duffy, Author Severn $28.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6810-7
Two cases—one engrossing, the other less so—figure in Duffy’s 13th mystery to feature Patrick Gillard and his wife, Ingrid Langley (after 2008’s Blood Substitute
). When Patrick’s latest undercover assignment for SOCA,...
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Margaret Duffy, Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6922-7
Marital tensions arise at the outset of British author Duffy's solid 14th Ingrid Langley and Patrick Gillard mystery (after 2009's Souvenirs of a Murder) when the couple, colleagues in the Serious Organized Crime Agency, take a badly needed holiday...
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Margaret Duffy, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-312-02567-0
In Duffy's sequel to her debut in A Murder of Crows , fearless Patrick and Ingrid Gillard leave England and arrive in Canada on a secret mission for British intelligence. Ingrid tells how the couple assume false identities, staying with David and...
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Margaret Duffy, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-312-02880-0
Falklands Islands war hero Patrick Gillard, head of a special counterespionage section of the British secret service, teams up with his novelist wife, Ingrid Langley (also part of the intelligence unit), and young Terry Meadows, in Duffy's latest...
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Margaret Duffy, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-312-04988-1
Stiff upper lips prevail in the fourth adventure of narrator Ingrid Langley and her husband, Major Patrick Gillard, operatives of D12, a small counterespionage unit within MI5. While grieving for a friend and colleague (code name Robin) blown up in...
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Margaret Duffy, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (219p) ISBN 978-0-312-06456-3
Self-consciously cute and loaded with indecipherable Briticisms, this spy-comedy-mystery imported from England hasn't traveled well. Duffy's protagonists, Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley, who appeared previously in Death of a Raven and A Murder...
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Margaret Duffy, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-312-08261-1
The plight of a young man who works for a secret London police unit infiltrating a gang of criminals forms the core of this well-wrought mystery. Young Piers Ashley, released from prison after serving six months on a robbery conviction, returns to...
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Margaret Duffy. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8098-7
Action trumps plausibility in Duffy’s 15th mystery set in Bath featuring husband and wife ex-MI5 agents Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley (after 2010’s Corpse in Waiting). Det. Chief Insp. James Carrick asks Gillard and Langley, who now assist the...
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Margaret Duffy. Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8210-3
Contrived circumstances and bloodless prose mar Duffy’s uninspired 16th mystery featuring married ex-MI5 agents Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley (after 2011’s Rat Poison). Having assumed a new role helping the Serious Organized Crime Agency, the...
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Margaret Duffy. Severn, $27.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8340-7
In Duffy’s uneven 18th Patrick Galliard and Ingrid Langley mystery (after 2012’s Stealth), the intrepid married couple, who work for England’s Serious Organized Crime Agency, search for an extremely violent criminal with a powerful organization....
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Margaret Duffy. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8482-4
Recent widow Anne Peters presents a most unusual problem to Patrick Gillard, on leave from the National Crime Agency, and his police partner wife, Ingrid Langley, in Duffy’s entertaining 19th mystery featuring the crime-fighting pair (after 2014’s...
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Margaret Duffy. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8613-2
In British author Duffy’s solid 19th Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley mystery (after 2015’s Ashes to Ashes), the couple tackles a highly personal and sensitive murder investigation. The victims are Patrick’s mentor, Richard Rowallen, the Earl of...
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Margaret Duffy. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8719-1
At the start of British author Duffy’s uneven 20th Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley mystery (after 2016’s Dust to Dust), Ingrid, a crime novelist who works for the National Crime Agency in Avon and Somerset, goes out riding and finds an...
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Margaret Duffy. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8815-0
The release from prison of Julian Mannering, the arch nemesis of British agent Ingrid Langley and her husband, Patrick Gillard, a National Crime Agency officer within the Avon and Somerset Police Organized Crime Unit, drives Duffy’s tired 21st...
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Margaret Duffy, Author, Tom Shachtman, With St. Martin's Press $19.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-312-11295-0
In 1969, Marlene Steele, wife of municipal court judge Robert Steele in the Cleveland suburb of Euclid, was murdered in her sleep. The community assumed the Steele marriage was ideal, but the investigation disclosed that the judge had been having a...
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Margaret Duffy. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9054-2
At the start of Duffy’s convoluted 22nd mystery featuring Ingrid Langley, mystery novelist and mother of five, and her husband, Patrick Gillard, a former agent for Britain’s National Crime Agency and now an insurance fraud investigator in Somerset (a
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Margaret Duffy. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5061-4
At the start of British author Duffy’s labored 23rd outing for Ingrid Langley and Patrick Gillard (after Gillard’s Sting), Det. Chief Insp. James Carrick of the Bath CID needs help. Fortunately, he can turn to his friend Patrick Gillard, a retired...
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