Oxford historian and T.V. 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...
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Author: Edwards, MartinSummary:
20 years ago, a teenage boy, Callum Hinds, went missing in England’s Lake District. His uncle was suspected of having done the boy harm and interviewed by the police. When he committed suicide...
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Author: Edwards, MartinSummary:
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...
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Author: Edwards, MartinSummary:
Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England’s Lake District, each time on Halloween. Just before the First World War, a young woman’s corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud...
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Author: Edwards, MartinSummary:
After 10 years, Guy, a drifter with a taste for deception, has returned to Coniston in England’s Lake District. Local journalist Tony di Venuto is campaigning to revive interest in the...
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Author: Edwards, MartinSummary:
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...
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Author: Edwards, MartinSummary:
Impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction. Fiendishly intricate cases were particularly well suited to the cerebral type of...
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Author: Edwards, MartinSummary:
A man is forbidden to uncover the secret of the tower in a fairy-tale castle by the Rhine. A headless corpse is found in a secret garden in Paris - belonging to the city's chief of police. And a...
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Author: Edwards, MartinSummary:
This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is breathtaking, and so much greater than many critics...
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Author: Edwards, MartinSummary:
A notice announcing that Harry Devlin died suddenly on Mid-summer’s Eve arrives at the office of his law firm one June day. Harry isn’t happy to read it—especially as Midsummer’s Eve is less than...