Faith Martin

Broschiertes Buch

The Flower Show Murder

Beschreibung

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. SMELL THE ROSES AND DIE! Monica Noble is thrilled to be asked to judge a neighbouring village's flower show - even if she can't tell a begonia from an azalea! Her fellow judge Vicar James Davies inhales deeply from a large bloom and drops dead in the tent. At first everyone thinks he's had a heart attack, but the doctor on hand is suspicious and calls in the police. A second murder quickly follows. This time it's one of the main suspects. Monica must help Chief Inspector Jason Dury to solve the two murders and find the killer - before anyone else pays the ultimate price. This is the second 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 Unholy Whiff of Death 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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Joffe Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781835267431
• ISBN-10: 1835267432
• Artikelnr.: 71876588