Lake District mysteries
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Lake District mysteries volume 1
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English
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Oxford historian and TV personality Daniel Kind and his new lover, Miranda, both want to escape to a new life. On impulse, they buy Tarn Cottage in Brackdale, an idyllic valley in the Lake District that Daniel knew as a boy, a place so remote that the dead had to be carried out over the peaks on pack animals along the ancient Coffin Trail. Tarn Cottage was once home to Barrie Gilpin, an autistic youth suspected of a savage murder. A young woman visitor...
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Lake District mysteries volume 2
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English
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Warren Howe is surprised by a hooded visitor while working in a garden in Old Sawrey, a lovely village in England's Lake District. Soon it is Warren who is dead murdered with his own scythe. The police identify several suspects, but lack the evidence to make an arrest. Years later, an anonymous tip sparks the interest of DCI Hannah Scarlett, who heads the local Cold Case Review Team. Warren's wife Tina is accused of killing her husband, although she...
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Lake District mysteries volume 4
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English
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Seven years ago, Bethany Friend was found drowned in mere inches of water in the lonely Serpent Pool in England's Lake District. Was it suicide or murder? Now, determined to win justice for Bethany's dying mother, SCI Hannah Scarlett of the Cold Case Squad re-opens the case.-- Publisher's description.
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Lake District mysteries volume 5
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English
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Twenty years ago, teenager Callum Hinds went missing in England's Lake District. His uncle was suspected of having done the boy harm and was interviewed by the police. When he committed suicide close to his cottage in the Hanging Wood, everyone assumed it was a sign of guilt, though the body of the boy was never found. Now his sister, Orla Payne, who never believed in their uncle's guilt, has returned to the Lakes. She wants to find the truth about...
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Lake District mysteries volume 6
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English
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DCI Hannah Scarlett, head of the Cold Case Review Team, is presented with the toughest challenge of her career: three murders, decades apart, all with the victims' faces obscured with a shroud.
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Lake District mysteries volume 7
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2015.
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English
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The magnificent Dungeon House and gardens overlook Cumbria's remote western coast with its mix of beaches, dunes, and fells, Roman ruins, and nuclear plant. Twenty years ago the wealthy Whiteleys called it home. But not a happy one. Malcolm Whiteley had begun to disintegrate under financial and emotional pressures. He suspected various men in their social circle of being his wife's lover. After a disastrous party for the neighbours, Lysette told Malcolm...
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Lake District mysteries volume 8
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English
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CWA Dagger and Edgar award-winning author Martin Edwards takes readers back to The Lake District after seven years with a cunningly layered mystery that Publishers Weekly calls a "skillful combination of procedural and whodunnit."
"Life is certainly nasty, brutish, and short-least for most of the characters in Edwards's much-awaited new installment, set on the edge of England's Lake District."-First Clue
What happened to Ramona Smith?
In the...