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DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters telling him to 'go to the stone circle and rescue the innocent who is buried there'. He is shaken, not only because children are very much on his mind, with Michelle's baby due to be born, but because although the letters are anonymous, they are somehow familiar. They read like the letters that first drew him into the case of The Crossing Places, and to Ruth. But the author of those letters is dead....
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Fantastic as usual
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Great story and well narrated
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historical stand alone crime
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DS Wesley Peterson, newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth, has his hands full when a child goes missing and a young woman is brutally murdered on a lonely cliff path. Then his old friend, archaeologist Neil Watson, unearths the skeletons of a strangled woman and a newborn baby in the cellar of an ancient merchant's house nearby. As the investigation continues, Wesley begins to suspect that these deaths, centuries apart, may be linked by age-old motives of jealousy, a sexual obsession and desperate longing.
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Fantastic as usual
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When Carmel Hennessy begins a new job in North Yorkshire, she finds the historic city of Eborby gripped by fear. A killer is on the prowl who binds and asphyxiates his victims before leaving their naked bodies in isolated country churchyards. The press are calling him the Resurrection Man. Tragic events from the past link Carmel with DI Joe Plantagenet, who believes the case may have occult connections.
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Great story and well narrated
- By Patricia on 17-01-18
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A High Mortality of Doves
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- Narrated by: Peter Noble
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It's 1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still coming to terms with the loss of so many of its sons when the brutal murder of a young girl shatters its hard-won tranquility. Myrtle Bligh is found stabbed, her mouth slit to accommodate a dead dove. During the war Myrtle volunteered as a nurse, working at the nearby big house, Tarnhey Court. When two more women are found murdered, Inspector Albert Lincoln is sent up from London.
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historical stand alone crime
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Nevertheless.......
- By san2har on 14-09-18
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Wasted an hour and a half on this
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Murder in Langley Woods: A Completely Addictive Cozy Mystery Novel
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Raven Black
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It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on the white ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbour Catherine Ross. The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man – loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But when police insist on opening out the investigation a veil of suspicion and fear is thrown over the entire community. For the first time in years, Catherine's neighbours nervously lock their doors, whilst a killer lives on in their midst.
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WOW!
- By Margaret on 01-09-18
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The Stranger Diaries
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Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. As a literature teacher specialising in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a short course on it every year. Then Clare's life and work collide tragically when one of her colleagues is found dead, a line from an R. M. Holland story by her body. The investigating police detective is convinced the writer's works somehow hold the key to the case.s....
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The stranger diaries
- By brenda peirce on 18-11-18
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Murder at Larkfield Barn
- A Melissa Craig Mystery, Book 7
- By: Betty Rowlands
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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Since her move to the country, Melissa Craig has become firmly established in village life. So, when one of the older residents fails to show up for a drinks party, Melissa goes to check on her. What she finds chills her to the bone: Her dear neighbor has been murdered, and the killer has painted a hideous smile onto her face. Melissa soon realizes that the death in her village bears the same trademark as a series of recent murders in the Cotswolds.
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Thoroughly good book.
- By Cathy Swanson on 26-01-19
Summary
The brutal massacre of the Harford family at Potwoolstan Hall in Devon in 1985 shocked the country and passed into local folklore.
When a journalist researching the case is murdered 20 years later, the horror is reawakened. Sixteenth-century Potwoolstan Hall, now a New Age healing centre, is reputed to be cursed because of the crimes of its builder, and it seems that this inheritance of evil lives on as DI Wesley Peterson is faced with his most disturbing case yet. And when the truth is finally revealed, it turns out to be as horrifying as it is dangerous.
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- crochetdiva
- 17-07-18
Another hit for Kate Ellis
I'm hooked on Wesley Peterson books now. Sadly I started with the later books, but now I want to start at book one and listen to all of them. The twists and turns have me on the edge of my seat. Very well read by Gordon Griffin.
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- Philandera hates washing up
- U.K.
- 30-07-18
Well I’d give a full review if I could listen through further without falling asleep
This is just too slow moving and full of detail without enough traction to make it a page turner. I couldn’t care less and am bored s##tless gone for a few hours and can’t carry on. Yes maybe I’d have been gripped later but I like books that I am engaged and drawn into all the way through. Sorry but based on this I won’t bother with any more Kate Ellis, not for me. I asked for a refund
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- ChrisH
- 19-07-18
worth the read
a intresting story with a few twists and turns but the ending i got about a third of the way through