Charlie Peace — by Robert Barnard

• Oct-1989
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Des Capper, landlord of Saracen's Head, a splendid Elizabethan inn, had been called a bore, a snoop, and other things not fit to print. Currently he was provoking his newest arrivals, the performers of the Ketterick Arts Festival--as rowdy a group as...

• Aug-1992
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A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty. As old Lydia Perceval plans to destroy yet another group of impressionable young children's love for their parents, the ...

• Sep-1993
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Reclusive brother and sister authors Joshua and Susannah Sneddon seemed happy enough to grind out their dreary literary tomes in their cozy Yorkshire cottage -- until Joshua took a fatal ax to his unfortunate sibling before putting a bullet into his ...

• Oct-1995
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When British policemen Charlie Pearce and Mike Oddie investigate the unsurprising murder of the village parish Lothario, they question Rosemary Sheffield, the vicar's wife. Rosemary, who has recently "lost" her faith and been accused of immoral behav...

• Apr-2001
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England's celebrated, multiple-award-winning master crime novelist returns with a witty and poignant chiller about the evil of gossip and the sin of indifference. Father Christopher Pardoe is a good priest. He cares about his parishioners. He is als...

• Apr-1999
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The body of a young man, almost naked, found in the car park behind a Haworth restaurant marks the beginning of the case, and it is his identity that is the first puzzle for DC Charlie Peace and his superior, Detective Superintendent Oddie. But befor...

• Apr-2002
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Matt Harper, a television and radio personality and a former professional soccer player, has just bought Elderholm, an old stone house in Leeds in the north of England. It's ideal for him, his partner Aileen, and her three children. Even the attic sp...

• 2003
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'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...

• Jan-2012
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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...

• May-2007
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Detective Inspector Charlie Peace and his wife, Felicity, are shocked when Felicity's difficult dad, Rupert Coggenhoe, suddenly announces that he's moving north to their Yorkshire village. Felicity has never much liked her father, and to have him as ...

• May-2009
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Vernon Watts may have been beloved by the millions of faithful viewers of the long-running soap opera Jubilee Terrace but his fellow cast members knew him for what he was -- an egotistical former music-hall performer whose untimely death in a pedestr...