An Inspector Peach Mystery — by J.M. Gregson

• Jun-1994
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• Aug-1997
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Detective Inspector Percy Peach, as bouncy and as aggressive as a bantam cock, is feared greatly by the petty criminals of Lancashire - and not a little by his own chief, the feeble Superintendent Tucker. Peach finds to his disgust that his new detec...

• Mar-2000
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• Jul-2000
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It is a will-known fact that most murder victims know their murderers -- usually very well. So when Verna Hume is found strangled in her own home the police immediately turn to her husband, and when it becomes apparent that the couple did not get on,...

• May-2001
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The only thing that characterises the murders committed by the Lancashire Leopard is that he leaves no clues. He's killing young women, and it looks like he's gaining confidence. Detective Inspector Peach has hit a brick wall -- and it seems that the...

• Sep-2002
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• Apr-2003
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Description Peach is up for promotion, so this ought to be a time for treading carefully ... Eric Walsh is found strangled in the car park after the North Brunton Masonic Lodge Ladies' Night. Walsh being a ladies' man, suspicion falls on many cuckold...

• Apr-2004
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A young, novice prostitute is murdered in Brunton, Lancashire, and Inspector Peach finds himself with a complex and unpleasant case on his hands. He begins to interview local prostitutes and their customers, including a divorced policeman and a Catho...

• May-2005
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Chief Inspector Peach finds the memories of squatters hard to budge Everyone in Brunton is happy to see the decaying, uninhabitable terraced houses of the old cotton town finally demolished to make way for a new industrial development. Happy, that is...

• May-2006
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Chief Inspector Percy Peach, Detective Sergeant Lucy Blake and the team, hindered as usual by the direction of Chief Superintendent Thomas Bulstrode Tucker, have one of their most puzzling and compelling mysteries to solve.In an area famous for the L...

• Apr-2007
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Peach and Blake take on the drug-dealing underworld Following months of undercover work, a drugs raid at a large manor is successful, but several hours after numerous arrests are made, there's a fire at the same house. A body is found and all the sig...

• Apr-2008
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Peach and Blake investigate a new case of family motives and secrets - Successful but lonely Geoffrey Aspin takes the desperate step of advertising for female company, and meets divorcee Pamela Williams. But their happiness is shattered by a brutal m...

• May-2009
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A Peach and Blake Mystery - When Tamsin Hayes decides to kill her husband, she sets in train a series of events she could never have predicted: for there is a seedy side to Tim Hayes, which the police are already investigating when he is violently...

• Apr-2010
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Foul play's afoot at Bruton Rovers Football Club. Bruton Rovers FC has been promoted to the Premiership, but Jim Capstick's days as Chairman have made him some enemies in the Lancashire mill town. With the team fighting relegation, the debts are...

• Apr-2011
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Adam Cassidy is one of Brunton's most famous residents. He plays the lead role in a successful TV detective show. It is now his time for a crack at Hollywood and he doesn't care who he has to betray in order to fulfil his dream. Meanwhile, DCI Percy ...

• May-2012
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A shooting on an estate puts DCI Percy Peach on the trail of a brutal ganglord... - When a young man is found with gunshot wounds outside the Thorley Grange estate, DCI Percy Peach is immediately on the case. The estate has recently been taken over b...

• Jul-2013
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Ex Ireland rugby player and now successful businessman Jim O'Connor is shot dead, point blank range, in the car park of a restaurant where he is hosting a family celebration. DCI Percy Peach is brought back from holiday to head up an investigation th...

• Feb-2015
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Alfred Norbury is a learned man. He is never afraid to display his erudition, but he is generous in his encouragement of younger people. The people who assemble around him to form a reading club are also learned. Some of them are simply well-read, wh...

• Mar-2016
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DCI Peach and DS Northcott investigate a murder at an exclusive tennis club Detective Sergeant Clyde Northcott -- DCI Peach's tall, black, powerful protégé -- has no interest in joining the snooty Birch Lane Tennis Club. So it is unfortunate for...