Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8237-0
In Heley’s solid seventh Abbott Agency mystery (after 2011’s False Report), Bea Abbott sets out to determine who set a trap for business magnate Sir Lucas Ossett that resulted in his falling down the stairs of his London apartment building. Bea soon
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8974-4
In Heley’s intriguing 14th Abbot Agency mystery (after 2019’s False Account), capable and compassionate Bea Abbot, the owner of a domestic service bureau, meets 15-year-old Evie Trescott, the boarding-school roommate of her ward, Bernice, at her...
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8902-7
In Heley’s tiresome 20th Ellie Quicke mystery (after 2018’s Murder by Suggestion), Ellie’s retired reverend husband, Thomas, who has a big heart for those in need, offers to let Hetty
, a middle-aged woman with no home and basic skills, stay with...
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8853-2
Bea Abbot’s new clients—Charlotte Tredgold, “a spinster of a certain age,” and her wealthy mother, Marcia—make an unfavorable first impression in Heley’s solid 13th Abbot Agency mystery (after 2018’s False Pride). The two women appear an hour and a...
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8805-1
Like many entries in this long-running series, Heley’s busy 19th Ellie Quicke mystery (after 2017’s Murder for Nothing) begins with the ringing of the doorbell of Ellie’s large, comfortable London home. In sweeps Diana, her remarkably rude daughter,
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8765-8
At the start of Heley’s diverting 12th Bea Abbot Agency mystery (after 2017’s False Fire), Bea, the owner of the Abbot Domestic Agency, gets an unexpected visitor at her London house—Magda Summerleys, her employee who’s working as a housekeeper for...
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8727-6
The action of Heley’s enjoyable 18th mystery (after 2016’s Murder in Style) takes place almost entirely around the kitchen table of Ellie’s London home. At the start of the series, Ellie was the widow of an abusive husband; she’s now the wife of a...
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8678-1
Heley’s appealing 11th Abbot Agency mystery (after 2016’s False Wall) opens at a party in a posh London neighborhood. It’s putatively for two 10-year-olds—champagne for the adults and piles of presents for the birthday girls, who are the emotionally
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $29.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8630-9
In Heley’s well-plotted 17th Ellie Quick mystery (after 2015’s Murder by Suspicion), Ellie investigates the suspicious death of Poppy Cordover, who ran a prosperous West London boutique, the Magpie, with her twin sister, Juno. The police say that...
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8576-0
Bea Abbot faces a host of problems in Heley’s muddled 10th mystery featuring the domestic agency proprietress (after 2015’s False Impression). First, the brick wall that separates her suburban London property from that of her multibillionaire fiancé,
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $29.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8524-1
At the start of Heley’s intricate 16th Ellie Quicke mystery (after 2014’s False Impression), Ellie returns from an extended visit to America to find chaos at her suburban West London home. The house is cold, furniture has been rearranged, and, worst
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $29.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8445-9
In Heley’s satisfying ninth Abbot Agency mystery (after 2013’s False Diamond), Bea Abbot, a practicing Christian who runs a “successful domestic agency from her house in an upmarket London suburb,” faces a host of problems. First, successful...
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8398-8
In Heley’s 15th outing for Ellie Quicke (after 2013’s Murder With Mercy), the harried grandmother finds herself spread thin while caring for her cranky infant grandson, Evan, and helping her live-in housekeeper, Vera, through a crisis. Both women...
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8298-1
Greed, family disharmony, and ambition come together with murderous results in Heley’s excellent eighth Abbot Agency mystery (after 2013’s False Alarm). Bea Abbot, the head of a London domestic agency, is once again in the midst of it all, and, this
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8281-3
Det. Constable Lesley Milburn calls on Ellie Quicke for help in looking into some suspicious suicides in Heley’s hectic 14th mystery featuring the veteran amateur sleuth (after 2012’s Murder in Mind). Exasperated Ellie winds up contending with...
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Veronica Heley, Author . HarperCollins U.K. $27.50 (266p) ISBN 978-0-00-712293-6
Cozy fans who enjoyed Ellie Quicke's debut, Murder at the Altar
(2000), will welcome the appealing middle-aged sleuth's second, even stronger outing from British author Heley. Widowed Ellie is just starting to recover from the recent death...
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8179-3
In Heley’s engaging 13th Ellie Quicke whodunit (after 2011’s Murder My Neighbour), widowed Ellie must deal with a ragtag bunch of guests under her London roof. The trouble starts after her irresponsible daughter, Diana, announces that she’s pregnant
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8117-5
Heley’s sixth Abbot Agency mystery, a slight improvement over 2011’s middling False Money, finds Bea Abbot at a turning point in her life. The domestic agency bearing her name is booming, but she can’t help wondering whether giving up control of its
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8050-5
In Heley's irresistible 12th Ellie Quick cozy (after 2010's Murder by Mistake), a former neighbor of Ellie's in suburban London, Flavia Pryce, appears to have dropped off the map on her way to a retirement home several months earlier. Ellie scarcely
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Veronica Heley, Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6985-2
At the start of Heley's uninspired fifth Abbot Agency mystery (after 2010's False Pretences), 19-year-old Chris, a friend of Bea Abbot's adopted son, Oliver, surprises Bea with a bouquet of flowers at her London office. Chris uses his charm to...
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Veronica Heley, Author Severn House Publishers $27.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5994-5
Middle-aged widow Ellie Quicke is shocked to learn of the death of her Aunt Drusilla, evidently electrocuted by faulty wiring, in Veronica Heley's Murder by Accident, the fourth in this engaging cozy series (Murder of Innocence, etc.). When Ellie'
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Veronica Heley, Author Severn House Publishers $26.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5982-2
The amateur sleuth investigates the disappearance of her neighbor's 10-year-old son and encounters some rather strange stamp collectors.
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Veronica Heley, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-00-274073-9
Returning to adult crime after many years, Heley introduces lovable widow Ellie Quicke in the first of what one can only hope will be a long series. Two days after the funeral of her husband, Frank, Ellie feels immobilized by grief. Then the...
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Veronica Heley, Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6911-1
Ellie Quicke, who rescued waifish Mia Prior from her abusive criminal stepfamily in Murder in House (2009), plans on hosting a wedding reception for Mia's best friend, Ursula Belton, in British author Heley's entertaining 11th mystery to feature the
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Veronica Heley, Author . Severn $28.95 (218p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6833-6
In Heley's engaging fourth Abbot Agency mystery (after 2009's False Step
), Bea's young live-in female assistant, Maggie, asks the London detective to help her ex-boyfriend, Zander. Zander feels responsible for the fatal heart attack...
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Veronica Heley, Author . Severn $28.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6783-4
In British author Heley’s fine 10th Ellie Quicke mystery (after 2008’s Murder in the Park
), nosy Ellie, recently married to her minister, must try to solve a missing persons case. After Ursula Belton, a distraught university student,...
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Veronica Heley, Author . Severn $28.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6708-7
In Heley’s charming third mystery to feature Bea Abbot (after 2008’s False Picture
), the genteel London detective must deal with office renovations and investigate a mysterious death. A cleaning woman finds the body of her mild-mannered
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Veronica Heley, Author . Severn $28.95 (218p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6656-1
In Heley's sprightly second cozy to feature London detective Bea Abbot (after 2007's False Charity
), Bea insists her domestic agency doesn't do murder, but murder sneaks into her latest missing person case—the disappearance of...
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Veronica Heley, Author . Severn $27.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6578-6
Feisty widow Ellie Quicke has a lot to worry about in the delightful ninth entry in Heley's contemporary cozy series set in a nameless town outside London (Murder of Identity
, etc.). A vicious dog fatally mauls a woman in the local park; Ellie&
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Veronica Heley, Author . Severn $27.95 (219p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6527-4
At the start of this ingenious series debut from British veteran Heley (Murder at the Altar
), Bea Abbot, recently widowed in New Zealand, has returned to London hoping for an empty house in which to grieve and put her life back together. Instead,...
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Veronica Heley. Severn, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5097-3
Heley successfully conveys the vagaries of old age—both physical and societal—in her leisurely paced 21st Ellie Quicke mystery (after 2019’s Murder for Good), in which Ellie and Thomas, her semiretired clergyman husband, have just returned to their...
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