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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 13
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In the new Ellie Quicke mystery, Ellie is forced to think the unthinkable about her own daughter, Diana . . . Could she be a murderer?
Ellie has always disliked the local big estate agent, aka Great White Shark, and is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she is carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife. But Ellie is soon drawn into the family circle when one of the Hooper children dies in their private...
Ellie has always disliked the local big estate agent, aka Great White Shark, and is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she is carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife. But Ellie is soon drawn into the family circle when one of the Hooper children dies in their private...
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 14
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Ellie Quicke is surrounded by problems on all sides – will she sink or swim?
Ellie's friend on the police force asks her to enquire about some deaths in the community which might or might not be suicide, and various relatives of the deceased confirm their suspicions. Unbeknown to the police, an elderly lady moving in and out of dementia has come across some drugs and is using them to ease people in pain out of their misery.
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Ellie's friend on the police force asks her to enquire about some deaths in the community which might or might not be suicide, and various relatives of the deceased confirm their suspicions. Unbeknown to the police, an elderly lady moving in and out of dementia has come across some drugs and is using them to ease people in pain out of their misery.
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 15
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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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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 12
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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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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 16
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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?
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 1
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The couple argue next door, the boy next door seems to know more than he is saying and the murder victim's mother is missing. This first in a series of mysteries is based in a church setting, and features Ellie Quicke, a recently widowed woman who finds herself to be something of a sleuth--Fantastic Fiction.
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Adjusting to life as a wealthy widow, Ellie Quicke is shattered to hear that her difficult but endearing Aunt Drusilla has been killed in a freak accident. But what if it were not an accident? The police are suspicious of all those closest to Aunt Drusilla, and Ellie struggles to keep her family from falling apart as each one in turn is suspected of murder.
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Ellie Quicke is shocked when her daughter, Diana, turns up at her door with a suitcase 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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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 3
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Ellie Quicke, fiftyish and recently widowed, is still trying to come to terms with her newly single state. She's coping, just, but could do without everyone else making demands on her; Diana, her selfish daughter, who expects Ellie to drop everything to babysit, the builders working on her new conservatory and her elderly and irritable Aunt Drusilla. To cap it all, ten-year-old Tod, who lives next door, has gone missing.
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 7
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A mysterious bout of sickness hits the parish after a lunch at church, and Ellie is horrified to discover that her home-baked quiches are considered to be the problem. Worse still, someone dies. When more suspect food turns up, Ellie's investigative instincts are aroused, for these incidents seem connected with her friend's troubled past.