Robert Barnard
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This unique murder mystery is both a penetrating analysis of a decaying social class and a deeply moving personal story of two men: Peter Proctor, recently retired as a senior British cabinet minister, and Timothy Wycliffe, a young aristocrat who was bludgeoned to death more than thirty years ago. Once close friends, their relationship had gradually faded; even Wycliffe's shocking murder caused relatively little impact on his friends and the national...
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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
c1995
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233 p. ; 25 cm.
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It's bound to be a problem when a vicar's wife loses her faith. In a Robert Barnard novel it can be a source of amusement, dismay, contemplation, and even murder. The hideous neo-Gothic parish church of St. Saviour's may or may not be typical of the Church of England, but clergy wife Rosemary Sheffield definitely does not fit the usual mold. While walking in the park one day, she loses her faith. It just lifts away from her, leaving her feeling free...
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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1998
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186 pages ; 23 cm
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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 6
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©1998
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283 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Yorkshire detective Charlie Peace visits an art colony full of quirky individuals as he investigates the murder of a street artist. By the author of A Little Local Murder.
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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 1
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2007, ©1989
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227 pages ; 19 cm
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A disliked innkeeper is murdered during the Ketterick Arts Festival.
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When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant is on the case. But the inquiry into her death turns into a nightmare of false leads and baffling clues. Was there anyone who didn't want lovely screen actress Christine Clay dead? The basis for Alfred Hitchcock's "Young and Innocent".
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Alan Grant mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
1996
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223 pages ; 21 cm.
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On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about "the stones that walk" and "the singing sands," which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse's meaning and the identity of the deceased. Despite his doctor's orders, Grant needs just...
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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2012
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241 pages ; 21 cm.
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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....