Frances Brody

• May-2024
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• Oct-2022
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New and longtime Kate Shackleton fans can enjoy this delightful historical mystery with echoes of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and the British mysteries of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear! Old bones speak from the grave as a curse descends on 193...

• Oct-2021
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• Oct-2020
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Frances Brody's twelfth Kate Shackleton mystery will positively intoxicate fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Nicola Upson.A competition for the crown proves deadly when confidences are betrayed and secrets are spilled.North Yorkshire, 1930. It's the se...

• Nov-2019
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The eleventh whodunit in this "satisfying historical mystery series" set in post-WWI England is sure to delight fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear (Booklist). Two murders. A one-way ticket to trouble. Can Kate Shackleton derail the killer? Lo...

• Apr-2019
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Critically acclaimed author Frances Brody is back with the tenth installment in her Kate Shackleton series, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Nicola Upson.Seven keen amateur photographers gather for the most popular openings of the decade. ...

• Aug-2018
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See how private investigator Kate Shackleton got her start in this 1920s cozy mystery novella for fans of historical British mysteries by Jacqueline Winspear and Nicola Upson!   Yorkshire, 1921. Kate Shackleton is having tea with her friend, Dor...

• Feb-2018
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France Brody captures the atmosphere and language of 1920s England while delivering a captivating plot in the ninth book of this traditional cozy mystery series featuring private investigator Kate Shackleton. Yorkshire, 1927. Eclipse fever grips t...

• Sep-2017
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Frances Brody returns with an intricate, absorbing plot while capturing the atmosphere and language of 1920s England in the eighth book of her cozy mystery series. Nothing ever happens in August, and tenacious sleuth Kate Shackleton deserves a bre...

• Feb-2017
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An intricate plot set in the 1920s English countryside and Frances Brody's "refreshingly complex heroine" (Kirkus) Kate Shackleton make A Death in the Dales an absorbing 7th installment in this traditional British cozy mystery. A murde...

• Jul-2016
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• Jan-2016
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• May-2015
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An intricate plot set in the 1920s English countryside and Frances Brody's "refreshingly complex heroine" ( Kirkus ) Kate Shackleton make Death of an Avid Reader an absorbing 6th installment in this mystery, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear an...

• May-2014
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When amateur sleuth detective Kate Shackleton receives a dawn telephone call from her cousin James, his news snaps Kate into wakefulness. The India Office seeks her on-the-spot help in finding a Maharajah, last seen on the Bolton Abbey estate. He has...

• Feb-2013
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A pawn-shop robbery It's no rest for the wicked as Kate Shackleton picks up her second professional sleuthing case. But exposing the culprit of a pawn-shop robbery turns sinister when her investigation takes her to Harrogate - and murder is only o...

• Sep-2012
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A winning combination of both intricate plotting and nostalgic post-WWI English country setting, Frances Brody's "A Woman Unknown" will appeal to fans of both classic murder mysteries in the vein of Agatha Christie as well as readers of historical my...

• Sep-2011
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Dead one minute... Young Harriet and her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stone mason father works. So when they find him dead on the cold ground, they rush off quickly to look for some help. Alive the next? W...

• Sep-2009
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Take one quiet Yorkshire village Bridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens... Add a measure of mystery Until the day that Master of the Mi...