Rebecca Tope, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-26570-0
Reading British author Tope's second novel (after her strong debut, 2000's A Dirty Death), set in the village of Bradbourne, is like sitting in a room full of people you hardly know listening to them talk endlessly about people you don't
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Rebecca Tope, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-30260-3
British author Tope's return to Devonshire for a follow-up to A Dirty Death
(2000) is every bit as good as the first. She creates a devastating portrait of one of England's distressed farming communities and manages to turn a sprawling...
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Rebecca Tope, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-26144-3
This assured, densely textured novel, set in rural England, hardly seems a debut effort. The Beardon family farm, Redstone, gets by quite handily under the guiding hand of Guy Beardon, a passionate man known for his intellect and an acidic tongue...
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Rebecca Tope, Author Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-312-28127-4
When undertaker Drew Slocome (who returns from Rebecca Tope's Dark Undertakings) discovers an extra body in his environmentally conscious Peaceful Repose Cemetery, he jumps at the chance to investigate, because ""mysteries existed to be solved...
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Rebecca Tope, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-31655-6
British author Tope's two series detectives, Det. Sgt. Den Cooper and amateur sleuth/""alternative undertaker"" Drew Slocombe, join forces in her fifth mystery (after 2003's A Death to Record), a dark, unsettling cozy set in rural East Devon. When...
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Rebecca Tope. Allison & Busby, $25 (350p) ISBN 978-0-7490-2337-9
Tope’s rambling 16th Cotswold mystery (after 2017’s Peril in the Cotswolds) finds nosy, intrusive Thea Osborn Slocombe struggling to adjust to life in Broad Campden as wife of alternative undertaker Drew Slocombe and stepmother to his two children....
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