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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 1
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English
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"Soon to be divorced Julia South never expected to be caught up in solving a murder, until she discovered the body of her cafe's most awkward customer. With a new smug Detective Inspector in town who underestimates her every move, Julia makes it her mission to discover the real murderer, before her village friends are dragged into the frame, and more bodies are discovered."-- Page [4] of cover.
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 7
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English
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Excitement blossoms through Peridale when a prestigious gardening magazine picks the village as the spotlight for their next issue, but that joy quickly turns to dread when members of the local gardening society, the Peridale Green fingers, start dying one by one after their obituaries are sent to the Peridale Post the day before their murders.
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 8
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English
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A storm hits Peridale with disastrous effects. Barker's cottage is destroyed, forcing him to move in with Julia, but she has more to worry about than him leaving his socks around and not putting the toilet seat up. Julia is shocked when the storm also uncovers a secret basement beneath her cafe and even more shocked when she finds the body of a teenage girl who has been missing for more than twenty years.
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 9
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English
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"When Julia gathered Barker's family at Peridale Manor for his surprise birthday party, she did not expect it to result in murder! Minutes before the celebration is scheduled to begin, Barker's nephew, Luke, is found strangled in his bed, putting an end to Julia's dream of a quiet family get together. Only one of Barker's family could have murdered the young man, but which one? Thanks to a botched burglary in the village, the police station is clogged...
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 15
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English
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Julia and Barker's wedding day is finally here, but will everything go to plan? There's murder afoot once again in Peridale, and this time all fingers seem to be pointing to members of the church choir!
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 5
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English
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When Julia's gran, Dot, wins an all-inclusive spa trip to Scotland, Julia finds it difficult to refuse the offer of a relaxing week away from her cafe. Along with her sister, Sue, they pack up her tiny vintage car and drive all the way from Peridale to Seirbigh Castle, ready to be pampered. The last thing Julia expected was to be caught up in another murder investigation, but when the cruel owner of the family-run spa, Henry McLaughlin, is shot...
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 6
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English
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"When a coffee shop opens in the village, Julia is surprised when her customers flock to the new business, leaving her café almost empty. A failed protest against the corporate chain store leaves Julia wondering if her cafe can survive, but she suddenly has bigger fish to fry when the owner of the coffee shop is poisoned, and she is framed for his murder. As Julia attempts to clear her name, she is stopped in her tracks when an unwanted familiar...
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 21
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English
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With Baby South-Brown's arrival just around the corner, Julia joins the local book club during her maternity leave. What better way to rest, relax, and connect with a few of Peridale's book-loving citizens? But when one of the book clubbers dies during a meeting, everyone's a suspect. Meanwhile, with a missing father and a murdered woman already on Barker's plate - not to mention the poison pen letters demanding his return to novel-writing, or else,...
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 10
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English
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"Christmas falls on Peridale, but that does not mean café-owner and part-time sleuth, Julia South, can sit back and enjoy the festivities. When the opening night of the annual Christmas play ends with Julia's elderly gran, Dot, fatally shooting a man in front of the whole village, Julia's world is turned upside down. Did Dot plan to murder the man she has a secret past with or was she framed? While juggling the slow process of adopting her foster...
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 11
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English
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"The residents of Peridale don't like change, so when the famous actress, Candy Bennett, rolls into the village to demolish a historic cottage, things don't go as smoothly as she would have hoped. With the 'Peridale Preservation Society' protesting her plans to build a modern home on the land, things quickly turn sour. Days into the project, Candy's lead builder, Shane, is murdered and the task to solve the mystery once again falls into Julia's lap....
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 23
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English
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Though Julia South-Brown knows the imminent sale of Wellington Manor means everything to her father Brian and his wife Katie, the process hasn't been all sunshine and roses for the village of Peridale. James Jacobson, the cutthroat property developer interested in the manor, also wants something else ... to turn Peridale's library into a hot new restaurant. And James isn't the kind of man who takes no for an answer. As clouds both literal and figurative...
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 17
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English
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Julia South-Brown is busy. Between trying for a baby, having her adopted daughter move out, renovating her beloved cafe, and training for the annual Peridale marathon, she doesn't have much time for anything, especially solving the recent murder of local farmer, Ted Coleman. Despite Peridale Farm only being just up the lane from Julia's cottage, she doesn't know much about the reclusive Coleman family, which is why she's happy to take a backseat....
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 22
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English
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With Julia South-Brown enjoying her newborn daughter's every milestone safe in her cosy cottage, and with maternity leave cutting her off from the rumour mill of her café, she doesn't realise just how much local news and gossip she's missed. Between a wave of break-ins and thefts, Peridale isn't quite the safe little village she remembers. But when the leader of Peridale's Eyes, the local neighbourhood watch group, meets her end on the same day...
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 13
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English
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"A free holiday to a seaside B&B run by drag queens sounds like the perfect way to spend a relaxing week away from Peridale, or so Julia South thought. When she arrives at the quirky B&B with her family, she's determined to have a fun break, but she quickly finds herself in the middle of another puzzling mystery when a lighting rig falls on the star drag performer, Simone Phoenix. Was it an accident, or something more sinister? Julia quickly befriends...
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 12
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English
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When Barker's book launch is ruined by the sudden appearance of a decade-old skeleton, Julia finds herself with another cold case on her hands. It quickly becomes evident that the skeleton belongs to Mabel Crump, the former manager of the library, but with Mabel supposedly having fled Peridale for a new life in Spain ten years previously, how did she end up there, and more importantly, why? With Mabel's family gathered in Peridale for the ninetieth...
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 24
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English
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When Julia's full-time café return clashes with a festival, thousands of music lovers descending on the village should be precisely what she needs to kick off a new era. But the council throws a spanner in the works when her cafe is "required not to operate" due to blocked road access. The front entrance, that is, and with the festival happening right behind her café, the kernels of a plan begin to pop... And it seems like the perfect plan to get...
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 25
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English
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After a busy summer apart, the cold autumn nights and the wedding of Johnny and Leah brings Julia and her old school friends back together. And with hardly any time to go, Julia is struggling to adapt her home baking skills to the autumnal spectacular Leah has dreamt up for her big day's wedding cake. Flavor is one thing Julia can nail, but the pictures last a lifetime. The wedding cake experiments soon get put on the backburner when the body of one...
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 20
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English
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"Julia's memories of her great-aunt Minnie Harlow are vague at best. Despite annual birthday and Christmas cards throughout her childhood, Julia has never actually met the glamorous former model and actress, so she was more than a little surprised to find out her great-aunt was alive and well and living in the south of Spain. Her surprise only grew when her gran, Dot, informed her that Minnie's boutique hotel, La Casa, which she ran with her daughter,...
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Peridale Cafe mystery volume 16
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English
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"When Julia South-Brown is asked to judge the first Peridale Bake Off competition alongside local radio DJ, Tony Bridges, she expects it to be some light village fun while her new husband, Barker Brown, finishes work on his second novel. However, it ends up being anything but when Tony shows he is nothing like his charming radio personality. When someone takes advantage of his severe and well-publicised peanut allergy with a contaminated red velvet...