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When Meredith Mitchell's old friend Toby Smythe turns up on leave, she is delighted to see him. But Toby has a problem - or rather his relative Alison Jenner has - and he wants to enlist the help of Meredith's fiance, Detective Superintendent Alan Markby...

It is with some trepiditation that Meredith Mitchell returns to the Cotswolds: the Bamford district holds memories that, to put it generously, are bittersweet, and Christmas is a difficult time to find oneself a stranger in a new area. Yet she receives a kindly welcome, in particular from her...

Der verkrümmte Leichnam einer Katze und die des dazugehörigen Besitzers: Das ist Meredith Mitchells erster Eindruck von dem Städtchen Westerfield, wo sie eigentlich nur an der Hochzeit ihrer Nichte teilnehmen wollte.

In the heart of the Cotswolds a body is found. A teenage girl, probably local - somebody's daughter who went out one evening and didn't come back. It is not long before she is identified: fifteen-year-old Lynne Wills, who habitually drank underage in The Silver Bells pub and, on the night of her...

A MATTER OF MURDER is the seventh Cotswold village crime novel in Ann Granger's Campbell and Carter series. Sure to appeal to fans of Midsomer Murders and M. C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin mysteries. Two years ago, Miff Ferguson chose to opt out of the rat race. Since then he's been living rough and...

When Meredith Mitchell gives a lone hitchhiker a lift to Tudor Lodge, she feels uneasy, for the girl is highly secretive. The next morning, the owner is found murdered, amid revelations about a double life involving his mysterious visitor.

Lizzie Martin wurde von ihrer Londoner Herrschaft nach New Forest aufs Land geschickt, um einer jungen Frau Beistand zu leisten, deren Baby auf tragische Weise starb. Doch die Dinge nehmen eine noch viel düsterere Wendung, als im Garten des Hauses eine Leiche gefunden wird. Daneben kniet die junge Frau, weinend und über und über mit Blut bedeckt. In ihrer Ratlosigkeit wendet sich Lizzie wieder einmal an ihren alten Freund Inspector Benjamin Ross von Scotland Yard.

London, 1864: Die junge Lizzie tritt die Stelle der Gesellschafterin einer reichen Witwe an, die zugleich Elendsquartiere in einem der ärmsten Viertel der Stadt vermietet. Lizzie findet heraus, dass ihre Vorgängerin von einem Tag auf den anderen verschwunden ist. Angeblich sei sie mit einem Mann durchgebrannt. Doch als der Leichnam des Mädchens gefunden wird, beginnt Lizzie zu zweifeln. Sie erneuert ihre Bekanntschaft mit einem Freund aus Kindertagen.

Where Old Bones Lie is set on an isolated archaeological dig in the Cotswolds. When a body is found near the site, the suspects, witnesses and clues all conflict, and the disappearance of a group of New Age travellers just seems to add to the mystery. Superintendent Markby and Meredith Mitchell...

When an ambitious hotelier announces that he will be converting Springwood Hall into a smart country hotel, it is greeted with a chorus of local disapproval led by the fearsome Hope Mapple - head of the Society for the Preservation of Historical Bamford. So the grand opening, to which all are...

It doesn't take Meredith Mitchell long to regret giving up her lovely Cotswold cottage in favour ofliving in London. In addition, the fact that her job gives a whole new meaning to the word tedious does little to improve her mood. What she needs is a holiday. So, when Alan Markby's sister wants...

Tammy Franklin has learned too much about death, too quickly. Two years ago she lost her mother to a long, lingering illness and now the body of the woman her father married in an attempt to replace his wife has been found on a railway embankment close to the Franklin farm. And this time the death is murder.As Superintendent Markby knows only too well, Tammy also stands to have her father taken from her. For Hugh Franklin is suspect number one...

Superintendent Alan Markby and Meredith Mitchell are in desperate need of a holiday - and the Cotswold village of Parsloe St John seems the perfect choice. Their neighbour, retired journalist Wynne Carter, is as convivial as the village itself and, over a glass of blackberry wine, indulges in...

It sends a shiver down Detective Superintendent Alan Markby's spine when he hears that a rambler has stumbled across human bones in Stovey Woods in the heart of the Cotswolds. Twenty-two years earlier, as a fresh-faced young inspector, he had a rare failure, in the hunt for a brutal serial...

When Meredith Mitchell bumps into her old school friend Rachel Hunter at the Chelsea Flower Show, she is shocked to discover that she was the first wife of her companion, Chief Inspector Alan Markby. But the meeting is not the only surprise - before the afternoon is out, Markby has a death on...

In the cold light of dawn, a dead body is found in the smouldering remains of a burnt-out Cotswold manor. Key House has stood empty for years, but its owner, Gervase Crown, was seen nearby just before the blaze. Is he responsible, or was he the intended target? As Campbell and Carter begin their...

London, 1867. As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night, the fog that swirls around him is like a living beast. After it has lifted a woman lies murdered in Green Park. Allegra Benedict was the beautiful Italian wife of an art dealer. As Ben begins his...

The two elderly sisters of the Oakley family live in poverty in an ancient mansion, and have decided to sell up to live comfortably from the profits. However, things become more complicated when a young Polish man appears claiming rights to half the fortune. When he dies in circumstances...

Meredith and Markby are almost ready to leave on a long planned canal barge trip, but Meredith is having reservations. Then the twelve year old corpse of a missing teenage girl is dug up in the local graveyard. The vacation is off, (to Meredith's relief) but the investigation is on...

Lizzie and Ben return to investigate a brutal murder in this Victorian mystery When Mr Thomas Tapley, a respectable but down-at-heel gentleman, is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room, his neighbour Inspector Benjamin Ross of Scotland Yard rushes to the scene. Little is known about the...