Robert Barnard
Author
Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty. As old Lydia Perceval plans to destroy yet another group of impressionable young children's love for their parents, the list of those who would have her die grows longer.
Author
Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
"Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer, dissects family bonds at their best and worst in this stunning novel of suspense. What an honor--to become trustee of an English stately home museum. Yorkshire Detective Inspector Charlie Peace's wife, Felicity, is initially thrilled when she's asked to join the board that oversees Walbrook Manor, an eighteenth-century mansion that's now part of a charitable trust....
Author
Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 4
Language
English
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Description
In England, a Bosnian refugee befriends a vicar's wife, who finds him work. Soon after a member of the church is murdered and the Bosnian disappears. A tale of immigrant smuggling which detectives Oddie and Peace try to unravel.
Author
Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Description
Yorkshire detective Charlie Peace visits an art colony full of quirky individuals as he investigates the murder of a street artist. By the author of A Little Local Murder.
Author
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
1985, ©1984
Language
English
Description
With the Nazis bombing London on a nightly basis, many working-class families sent their children to the comparative safety of the countryside. When the Blitz ended, the families came for their kids ... but no one ever came for Simon Thorn. His name appears on no list of the evacuated children. And none of his meager belongings offer any clues to his origins. Now an adult, newly moved to London, Simon is puzzled by an odd sense of familiarity when...
Author
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
In Leeds, England, children hide their widowed father's nervous breakdown and take over the running of the house to avoid being removed by social workers. Problems start when the father's mistress appears at the door--they manage to send her away--then reappears in the garden, dead. By the author of A Fatal Attachment.
Author
Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
When an actor from a daytime soap opera dies under suspicious circumstances, Inspector Charlie Peace investigates suspects among a group of talented actors and extras who exchange unethical services for their roles.
