Margaret Yorke

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1970
  • Latest Book:
    November 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Patrick Grant

1 - Dead in the Morning (1970)
2 - Silent Witness (1972)
3 - Grave Matters (1973)
4 - Mortal Remains (1974)
5 - Cast for Death (1976)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • Dead in the Morning

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    Patrick Grant - 1

    Imagine an old lady who was hated because of her arrogance and cruelty towards her children, and whose lives she dominated, becoming a murder victim. But it is the housekeeper who is found dead. Had a mistake been made and the wrong woman killed? Dr....

  • Silent Witness

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    Patrick Grant - 2

    The Austrian Alpine ski resort of Greutz is the scene of rivalry between an English party and some new arrivals. The tension mounts with the weather closing in, when blizzards envelope the resort and avalanches threaten. Dr. Patrick Grant's particula...

  • Grave Matters

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    Patrick Grant - 3

    Amelia Brinton, a retired headmistress of a top girl's school, appears to have accidently fallen to her death in Greece. Her friend, a Miss Forest, also meets her death having been pushed down stairs in the British Museum. Dr. Patrick Grant connects ...

  • Mortal Remains

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    Patrick Grant - 4

    Dr. Patrick Grant does not believe that Felix Lomax died accidentally. The unfortunate Lomax was thought to be lecturing on a luxury cruise liner, but is found washed ashore on a lonely beach in Crete. Grant's investigations take him upon a trail whi...

  • Cast for Death

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    Patrick Grant - 5

    Sam Irwin, actor, is found dead in the River Thames. It appears to be suicide. But why should he have taken his own life shortly before opening in a new play at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon? In arriving at a conclusion, Dr. Pa...

  • The Scent of Fear

  • The Hand of Death

    There were those who said he couldn't have done it. Not decent, gentle, ordinary George Fortescue, the typical man next door. No matter what the police thought, George Fortescue couldn't have done those terrible things - could he? But the women who'd...

  • Devil's Work

    When Alan Parker is suddenly made redundant, he can't bring himself to tell his wife. With time on his hands while secretly and desperately looking for a job, he meets a waif-like little girl, Tessa, and her lonely, widowed mother. Alan discovers he ...

  • Find Me a Villain

    Ah, the tranquility of the English countryside. Where bizarre late-night phone calls shatter the silence. Eccentric neighbors turn heartrending private grieves into frightening public rituals. And an at-large sex murderer searches for fresh prey. ...



  • The Smooth Face of Evil

    Violence was not Terry's style at all. He found it crude, uncivilized, and unnecessary. He picked up things other ways -- articles left in unlocked cars, the cars themselves, handbags left on chairs or tables. Terry was extremely personable. ...

  • Intimate Kill

    After serving ten years of a life sentence for murder, Stephen Dawes was released on licence to start a new life. But Stephen could not let the past bury itself - he alone knew he had not killed his wife Marcia. As Stephen set out to reconstruct ...

  • Safely to the Grave

    The Times' referred to this work as a superior psychothriller and it certainly lives up to the epithet. The central character is Mick Harvey, who has just been released after a spell in prison. He enjoys frightening people â€" it is his way of gainin...

  • No Fury

  • Evidence to Destroy

    At first Lydia Cunningham seems just a nice, neat, self-contained widow in reduced circumstances, who has problems with her children... Her daughter Thelma, recently divorced, has just paid a rare visit - bringing along a young man she met on the...

  • No Medals for the Major

  • Death on Account

    Robbie is a quiet man, passive and unassuming. He is the sort of man who is taken for granted by the people around him, passed by for promotions and bossed around by his wife. Middle-aged, Robbie has never known love, or passion, or power. Oh, in his...

  • The Small Hours of the Morning

  • Speak for the Dead

    Carrie Foster was still young when she started breaking the law. And she took to it like a duck to water. Gordon Matthews had transgressed only once, but his crime was far more serious. A pity Carrie didn't suspect anything when he proposed to her. B...

  • Crime in Question

    Denis is living on the edge of society: neglected and unwanted, he scrapes by on his earnings as an odd-jobber. His is the sort of desperation that will tip into lawlessness at the drop of a monkey-wrench. A chance encounter with Len, inmate of the l...



  • Mugs

    in Mysterious Pleasures

    'Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool. A clever fool -- perhaps -- but a fool just the same' RAYMOND CHANDLER Ever since its creation in 1953, the Crime Writers' Association has celebrated and champione...

  • Admit to Murder

    When Louise Vaughan disappears on her way home from choir practice in the village of Feringham, her parents and their dear friend Norah are devastated. No trace of her is ever found. But twelve years later, Detective Marsh rekindles the investigation...

  • The Birthday

    Confident that she was the dominant member of her family, and the one to whom the others were bound by ties of love and loyalty, Meriel Graham expected that on her birthday it would, as usual, be everyone's concern to give her pleasure. However, und...

  • A Small Deceit

    This is a case of the chance meeting of two people, known to each other, who have both assumed false identities. William Adams was sent to prison for rape. In order to avoid this being known following his release, when he embarks upon a series of sca...

  • Christopher

    Christopher is nine. His mother doesn’t love him and he doesn’t know his father. Upon returning to boarding school for the summer term of swimming and cricket, several members of staff notice his unhappiness and become involved in his life. At sc...

  • Criminal Damage

    Something murderous is about to happen in Middle Bardolph. The sunny village seems as neat and proper as the orderly life of Mrs. Newton, the grey-haired widow in an impeccably kept house. Yet a trifle more scrutiny will soon reveal a darker picture ...

  • Summer Flight

  • Dangerous to Know

    Riding her bicycle about Creddington in her worn sweater and tweed skirt, Hermoine Brown looked as drab, brown, and common as a mouse. Actually she was doing something extraordinary - deceiving her husband, Walter, by secretly taking on two afternoon...

  • Almost the Truth

    The small village of Bicklebury is a haven from big-city crime until two burglars break into Derek Jarvis's home. Derek pleads with his daughter not to resist--and one of the young toughs rapes her. Even though the men are caught and sent to prison, ...

  • Pieces of Justice

    In this collection of crime stories, readers will be delighted to find Dr. Patrick Grant making a welcome re-appearance. Also included are stories about a long held grudge and a wrongdoing with unforeseen later consequences, and others, all on a par ...



  • Serious Intent

    Friendly Old Tom lives with his housekeeper in the Willows. no one knows ...his son is in prison for murder. Richard Gardner lives down the road with his second wife and her two sons. No one knows...she is seriously disturbed. Well-behaved school-boy...

  • A Question of Belief

    After being accused of a rape he did not commit and being ostracized by his community, Philip Winter seeks cover with an Animal Rights group, until another woman crosses his path with revenge on her mind....

  • Act of Violence

    The facade of the quintessentially English market town of Mickleburgh has successfully hidden the secrets of its inhabitants for generations but the casual murder of a man trying to prevent some vandalism shatters the peaceful veneer. Parents are for...

  • False Pretences

    When her goddaughter is arrested during an environmentalist protest, Isabel Vernon is startled to discover that the fair-haired child of her memory has become an overweight skinhead activist and that Isabel herself is now regarded as Emily Frost's ne...

  • The Point of Murder

  • The Price of Guilt

    Louise Widdows has been trapped inside an unhappy marriage for decades, struggling to find the strength to leave. Then, seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident, Louise returns home from a long stay in the hospital to find her husband suddenly, an...

  • The Cost of Silence

    Norman Widnes was the kindest nurse his invalid wife could wish for, but Norman was so pleasant to everyone -- a blameless shopkeeper in a quiet town. The murder of Emma Widnes shocked everyone, and soon skeletons could be heard rattling in the most ...

  • A Case to Answer

    Jerry and Peter have been successfully conning vulnerable householders until Jerry decides to go straight and gets a job in a chip shop. There he meets Imogene, pregnant and temporarily living with her step-grandmother, Charlotte Frost, in Granbury. ...

  • Cause for Concern

    When Martin Trent calls home to announce his return from an assignment as a tour guide in Venice, his mother, Susan, is filled with fear-a fear based on what has happened before, and her dread of further violence. She meets Martin, as instructed,...

  • Guilty Secrets

    NO MEDALS FOR THE MAJOR: Major Johnson's army career was comfortably undistinguished and he expected his retirement to be on the same even tenor, but in the quiet community of Wiveldown the paths of a disparate group of people cross his own with deva...



  • The Small Hours Of Morning

    The watcher spies late into the night on the enviably cosy domesticity of the Titmuss household. The seemingly happy couple, the loving children, the ordered normality of it all strikes a deep chord in Lorna Gibson, so different is it from the emotio...

  • Deceiving Mirror

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    A still young and attractive widow, Nesta Falconer has made a pleasant life for herself, living with her fifteen-year-old daughter Philippa in a cottage close to her brother-in-law's farm. She divides her time between voluntary work and managing Char...

  • Full Circle

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  • The Limbo Ladies

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  • Once a Stranger

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    Anxious to finish his latest novel, Neil Addington rents a cottage in the quiet village of Westington. He meets Anna Harris, who is restless and unhappy, her marriage to Tom Cartwright having been postposed. Later, Anna begins to help Neil prepare hi...

  • Pray, Love, Remember

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    'A star in our galaxy of crime writers.' - FINANCIAL TIMES Jane had led a sheltered childhood until the sudden death of her father, and she was ill-prepared for her changing circumstances. Every summer, however, she spent happy weeks with a family of...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Margaret Yorke has published 45 books.

Margaret Yorke does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Small Hours Of Morning, was published in November 2017.

The first book by Margaret Yorke, Dead in the Morning, was published in January 1970.

Yes. Margaret Yorke has 1 series.
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