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Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Peach and Blake take on the drug-dealing underworld Following months of undercover work, a drugs raid at a large manor is successful, but several hours after numerous arrests are made, there's a fire at the same house. A body is found and all the signs indicate it will be a simple case. However, after Chief Inspector Percy Peach and Detective Sergeant Lucy Blake are called in to investigate, an unusual case of murder unfolds . . .
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Sergeant Clyde Northcott--DCI Peach's tall, black, powerful protégé--has no interest in joining the snooty Birch Lane Tennis Club. So it is unfortunate for him when committee member Olive Crawshaw decides he would be the perfect talisman for the club's new, and controversial, policy to recruit members from a wider ethnic and social background. Clyde soon finds himself thrust into an exclusive community where his rusty tennis skills are...
5) Mortal taste
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
For Superintendent John Lambert, a round of golf is the perfect diversion, especially when he's beating, and offering patronizing tips to, his sergeant, Bert Hook. Hook isn't having much fun, but when he mishits a ball horribly, he comes across something far, far more horrible - in a ditch. The young woman lying there, it turns out, was not only a drugs dealer, but she was on the game too. And this, naturally, left her vulnerable to the animosity...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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...
10) Wild justice
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Tamsin Hayes decides to murder her husband Tim, she is unaware that he is already under investigation for other crimes.
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 28
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Skeletons have a habit of revealing themselves eventually...When a human skeleton is discovered on the boundary of a 20-year-old property development, it seems there are a large number of people who may know the identity of the corpse and how it got there. But twenty years is a long time and those individuals were very different people back then. Skeletons are being revealed in all senses and there are many prominent local figures who are beginning...
12) Brothers' tears
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ex Ireland rugby player and now successful businessman Jim O'Connor is shot dead in the car park of a restaurant where he is hosting a family celebration. DCI Percy Peach is brought back from holiday to head up an investigation that has got nowhere. It seems Jim O'Connor had some rather unpleasant business contacts, many with the motive to get rid of him. However, when law-abiding Dominic O'Connor is also killed, within days of his brother, Brunton...
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 26
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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 . . .
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 29
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Sam Jackson is not a man who suffers fools - or anyone else - gladly. A successful British television producer who fancies himself as a Hollywood mogul, he makes enemies easily, and delights in the fact. It is no great surprise that such a man should meet a violent death. Detective Chief Superintendent Lambert and Detective Sergeant Hook deduce that the person who killed him is almost certainly to be found among the company of actors who are shooting...
Author
Series
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 24
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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
Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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