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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
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Ellie is desperate to find someone to look after her elderly housekeeper, Rose. But employing a carer proves to be a mixed blessing, for Claire is heavily involved with a local church with a charismatic pastor, who -- seemingly coincidentally -- is looking to Ellie's charitable trust for financial help. Can Ellie trust Claire and Pastor Ambrose?
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Severn House Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Ellie is drawn into the family circle when two children of her daughter's fiancé die.
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Ellie investigates some mysterious deaths in the community that may or may not be suicide.
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Ellie's old friend and housekeeper falls off a ladder and hurts herself after seeing a 'ghost' in a neighbour's house - while Ellie is trying to get rid of a desperate young man, who says he's looking for his great aunt...who happens to own the house in question. Mrs. Pryce had told everyone she was moving to a retirement home, but never arrived there. Someone seems to be tending the vegetables in Mrs. Pryce's garden. Perhaps the house is not as...
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Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ellie Quicke finds you can choose your friends but not your family. Poppy's wealthy father hadn't liked the look of the men whom his twin daughters intended to marry, and had set them up in the Magpie fashion boutique to ensure they would be able to support themselves; at the same time ensuring that the girls made a will in one another's favour. The business prospered and expanded until, many years later, skeletons start to come out of the closet....
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ellie Quicke believes in helping people in trouble. But it would appear that her latest good deed has returned to bite her when she takes in a weeping girl who needs somewhere to stay. Selfish, thoughtless and irresponsible, Angelica is by no means the easiest of house guests, confident that someone else will always pick up the bill. But when a dead body is found in the garden the morning after a riotous party she's organized, Angelica plunges Ellie's...
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Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The shocking death of a student in one of her charity's properties draws Ellie into another dark mystery. Ellie Quicke returns from Canada to find her home in chaos and her housing charity tearing itself apart. A student has fallen to his death from the top of one of the charity's properties, let through a reputable local estate agency. Accused of corruption, the agency is the victim of a vicious social media campaign. Was the student's death really...
11) Murder for good
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Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Ellie's husband Thomas, a retired minister, is suspicious when he receives not one but five letters advising him that he has been bequeathed money by five different people in their wills. He barely knew three of his benefactors, and what could possibly connect him to the other two strangers? Sensing something isn't right, and with Thomas's reputation at stake, Ellie investigates but is soon distracted, not only by the problem of trying to ease Hetty,...
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Ellie Quicke is shocked when her daughter, Diana, turns up at her door with suitcases in tow. Bunny Brewster has died of an overdose, and Diana's husband, Evan, is convinced that she is responsible for his friend's death. It seems that Diana and four other neglected, bored wives of Evan's friends recently joked about ways to kill their husbands. Diana's suggested method of murder involved muddling up pills--could this be how Bunny died, or was it...
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Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ellie opens the door to a man who is a stranger but instantly recognisable as the father of her housekeeper's brilliant but difficult young son. Mikey had been conceived at a party during which his mother Vera, a schoolgirl, had been drugged and raped. Abdi hadn't wanted anything further to do with her - then. Twelve years later he is a high-flying consultant whose wife cannot have children, and he aims to pay off Vera and adopt Mikey: a suggestion...
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