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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 3
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English
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Death returns to a Yorkshire village when a museum opens on the site of an unexplained murder/suicide where a renowned author killed his sister with an ax and shot himself.
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English
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A small boy, evacuated from London during the blitz, is taken in by a loving couple who treat him like their own, and who raise him to adulthood. When he returns to London as a man, he feels the need to find his original family. He uncovers a thoroughly detestable family that he knows he was part of, but he has to find out where exactly he fit in. He uncovers an old murder that he actually witnessed as a small boy.
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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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A disliked innkeeper is murdered during the Ketterick Arts Festival.
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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Matt Harper, a television and radio personality and a former professional soccer player, has just bought Elderholm, an old stone house in Leeds in the north of England. It's ideal for him, his partner Aileen, and her three children. Even the attic space seems just right -- the perfect place for a game room or a children's retreat. But as Matt and his decorator tour the property, they find something that will put the attic off-limits for a long time...
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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 5
Language
English
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In Leeds, England, a Pakistani girl flees to a homeless center for youths to avoid an arranged marriage, but the family comes after her and blood flows. The black policeman, Charlie Peace, investigates.
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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 10
Language
English
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"Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer, dissects family bonds at their best and worst in this stunning novel of suspense. What an honor--to become trustee of an English stately home museum. Yorkshire Detective Inspector Charlie Peace's wife, Felicity, is initially thrilled when she's asked to join the board that oversees Walbrook Manor, an eighteenth-century mansion that's now part of a charitable trust....