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Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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A shooting on an estate puts DCI Percy Peach on the trail of a brutal ganglord - When a young man is found with gunshot wounds outside the Thorley Grange estate, DCI Percy Peach is immediately on the case. The estate has recently been taken over by Oliver Ketley, a generous local benefactor leading a double life as a ruthless ganglord. Peach quickly sets out to find the connection between him and the injured man, but Ketley faces much bigger problems:...
2) Mortal taste
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
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Head teacher Peter Logan is a strange case of Jekyll and Hyde. He's effected impressive improvements at his Cheltenham school, but his private life is in no way exemplary. So when he's shot in the head one September evening, does he die a martyr or is this his just comeuppance? It's up to Lambert and Hook to find out the truth.
3) Rest assured
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 27
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
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Twin Lakes is a tranquil place. It is a complex of holiday homes in a particularly beautiful part of England. "Rest Assured", says the sign at its entrance. And the people fortunate to occupy the luxury homes on the site are indeed able to relax in a beautiful setting. Then a series of mysterious threatening notes are delivered to one of the lakeside homes. DS Bert Hook conducts an informal investigation and the notes cease to appear. All is peaceful...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Alfred Norbury is a learned man. He is never afraid to display his erudition, but he is generous in his encouragement of younger people. The people who assemble around him to form a reading club are also learned. Some of them are simply well-read, whilst others have formal qualifications which rival those of Norbury. But learning is no protection against violence. Murder arrives suddenly, brutally and unexpectedly. The investigation led by Detective...
5) Dusty death
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
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Description
Everyone in Brunton is happy to see the decaying, uninhabitable houses demolished. Happy, that is, until the clearance reveals a grisly secret – a corpse of a squatter. Detective Chief Inspector Peach investigates, but finds that the memories of the victim's former companions are not easily stirred about things they would rather forget.
6) Wages of sin
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
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Description
A young prostitute is murdered, and Inspector Peach finds himself with a complex, unpleasant case on his hands. He begins to interview local prostitutes and their customers, including a divorced policeman and a Catholic priest at odds with his beliefs. But did one of them kill the girl or was one of the town's more sinister thugs responsible?
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 25
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Dennis Cooper is one of the few full-time resident National Trust curators in England and lives with his wife in the grounds of the spectacular Westbourne Gardens, which receives thousands of visitors each year. On the face of things, Dennis lives a perfect life and has a dream job, but this idyllic setting is riven with dark secrets, and it isn't long before foul play draws Lambert and Hook into this troubled Eden.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
A double murder reveals the dirty dealings and family secrets of a former Irish rugby star in “a formidable puzzle” for the “indomitable” British detective (Kirkus Reviews).
Irish ex-rugby player and now successful businessman, Jim O’Connor, was shot dead at point blank range in the parking lot of Claughton Towers where he was hosting a celebratory dinner. DCI Percy Peach is brought back...
Irish ex-rugby player and now successful businessman, Jim O’Connor, was shot dead at point blank range in the parking lot of Claughton Towers where he was hosting a celebratory dinner. DCI Percy Peach is brought back...
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 26
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"When seven-year-old Lucy Gibson disappears into thin air at the local funfair, Chief Superintendent Lambert, along with DS Bert Hook and DS Ruth David have a race against time to discover who took the young girl and to prevent more children from going missing before its too late... "--Amazon.com.
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
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Adam Cassidy is one of Brunton's most famous residents. For the past few years he has played the lead role in a TV detective show that has been a worldwide success. He now believes it is his time for a crack at Hollywood, and, as plans are made for the fifth series, he doesn't care who he has to betray in order to fulfill his dream. Meanwhile, DCI Percy Peach, now happily married to Lucy Blake, is at a loose end and is in danger of being drawn into...
11) Only a game
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
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Foul play's afoot at Bruton Rovers Football Club. - Bruton Rovers FC has been promoted to the Premiership, but Jim Capstick's days as Chairman have made him some enemies in the Lancashire mill town. With the team fighting relegation, the debts are piling high. But when the club is rocked by a murder after Jim makes a surprise announcement, the question's not who had the motive, but who had the balls to actually do it. 'Percy' Peach and DS Lucy Blake...
12) Body politic
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 10
Language
English
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Description
When ambititious MP Raymond Keane is found dead in a frozen lake, Superintendent Lambert and Sergeant Hook soon discover that the politician was adept at making enemies. There is his former lover, Moira Yates, whose life he has ruined; his business partner Chris Sampson; Joe Walsh, a disgruntled constituent; and his supposed fiancée, Zoe Renwick, who had been on the point of breaking the engagement off. Moira Yates seems to have the perfect alibi.
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Series
Publisher
AudioGo Limited
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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When a young girl is raped and murdered and her body left in a deserted house, it is not discovered for two days and there are few clues at the scene of the crime to incriminate her killer. When a second murder follows, it becomes obvious that the hunt is for a serial killer, who is almost certain to kill again. Moreover, the way the bodies are laid out seems to indicate not only a warped mind but a wish to taunt the police. In the quiet country
...14) In Vino Veritas
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
A Lambert and Hook mystery - Martin Beaumont is the uncompromising owner of a successful Gloucestershire vineyard. He has built the company steadily over the years, with a small but dedicated team by his side. However, he sees Abbey Vineyards as his company, to do with as he pleases, much to the chagrin of his senior staff members. So when he is found dead in his car, Chief Superintendent Lambert and DS Hook don't have to look very far to find people...
15) Die Happy
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 24
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
The new Lambert and Hook mystery - When the committee members of the Oldford Literary Festival all receive anonymous letters telling them to resign or die, it marks the start of an unusual case for Chief Superintendent Lambert and DS Hook. All of the members identify one man as being capable of such a thing: Peter Preston, a self-important snob who is in disagreement with the head of the festival over what he sees as the dumbing down of the events...
Author
Series
Publisher
AudioGo Limited
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The shout came as they were completing the eleventh hole. Away to their left a young greenkepper waved at them a frantic, unsteady arm... The body is that of a man who had been ejoying a few days of golf and relaxation with his friends at the Wye Castle Hotel and Country Club. Superintendent Lambert and Sergeant Hook establish fairy quickly how he died, but discovering who killed him proves a more difficult challenge. The golf course and hotel
...17) Close call
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First World edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
19) Wild justice
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First World edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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