Faith Martin

The Vicarage Murder

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Produktbeschreibung

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers. Discover a series of murder mysteries set in an idyllic English village. Meet Monica Noble: the vicar's wife with a taste for solving crimes. IN A QUIET COTSWOLD VILLAGE ALL HELL IS ABOUT TO BREAK LOOSE. Monica Noble is throwing a party to welcome the village's new residents. The guests include celebrity chef Sean and his wife Margaret. Also on the list are an Oxford university professor, a 40-something divorcée, and the owner of a chain of gyms. Then as the drinks are flowing, a shotgun blast rings out. One of the guests is found dead. DCI Dury and Sergeant Jim Greer are soon on the scene and discover that the victim had many enemies. Almost all the guests harbour secrets and motives for murder. Even Monica's daughter comes under suspicion. When another villager is strangled to death nearly a week later, the stakes are raised. Can Monica help the local detectives save her daughter and solve the murders before anyone else pays the ultimate price? This is the first of a series of enjoyable murder mysteries with great characters and baffling crimes which will keep you gripped till the final page. Please note this book was first published as An Unholy Mess under Faith Martin's pen name Joyce Cato. Perfect for fans of classic whodunits by authors like Agatha Christie, L.J. Ross, Simon Brett, Richard Osman and the Rev Richard Coles. MEET THE AMATEUR SLEUTH Monica Noble was widowed young, leaving her to raise her feisty daughter on her own. That is, until she met and fell in love with Graham Noble, a country vicar (pastor), who enticed her to leave her high-flying job in advertising in the city and move to the Cotswold countryside. There she found bucolic life very pleasant indeed - until murder started to rear its ugly head. And she discovered, to everyone's surprise, that she had a flair for solving the most unholy of crimes. READERS LOVE THE VICARAGE MURDER: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'An engaging crime mystery with well-defined characters and a twisty plot. Recommended!' AlwaysReading ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Well written and couldn't put it down. The plot was very well thought out, and kept me enthralled to the very end.' Michael D. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Thoroughly enjoyed this book . . . Cosy mystery at its best, well worth a read.' Nikkib ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Faith Martin is the type of mystery writer I like: interesting stories, not overly graphic, but always keeps me on edge to the end.' Michael B. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Another great book I couldn't put down. Loved it from beginning to end.' Marilyn C.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Joffe Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 126mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9781835267417
• ISBN-10: 1835267416
• Artikelnr.: 71874388

Autorenporträt

Faith Martin was born in Oxford, and has spent all her life within twenty miles of the university city, even working at Somerville College for six years before turning to writing full-time. Faith has been writing for nearly 30 years under four different pen names and has had nearly 50 books published so far. She began writing romantic thrillers as Maxine Barry, which Joffe Books are in the process of re-releasing as brand new eBooks. Then she turned to crime, and as Joyce Cato wrote classic-style whodunits, since she's always admired the golden-age crime novelists. But it was when she created her fictional DI Hillary Greene, and began writing under the name of Faith Martin, that she finally began to become more widely known. Her latest literary characters WPC Trudy Loveday, and city coroner, Dr Clement Ryder, take readers back to the 1960's and the city of Oxford. Having lived within a few miles of the city of dreaming spires for all her life, both the city and the countryside/wildlife often feature in her novels. Although she has never lived on a narrow boat (unlike DI Hillary Greene!) the Oxford canal, the river Cherwell, and the flora and fauna of a farming landscape have always played a big part in her life - and often sneak their way onto the pages of her books. Her hobbies include walking her now ageing dog, wildlife-watching, reading and (reluctantly) gardening.