Christmas Cracker (ePub)
Inspector Dan Evans retired from the police force, returning to Wales to help manage the family holiday rental business. But there is one cottage no holidaymaker can sleep in for a single night: the farmhouse...
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Inspector Dan Evans retired from the police force, returning to Wales to help manage the family holiday rental business. But there is one cottage no holidaymaker can sleep in for a single night: the farmhouse where Dan’s nephew, Alun, murdered his wife. Alun is serving a life sentence, but the body was never found. Do the dead who have never been laid to rest really walk at night?
Another Cup of Christmas by Jenny Kane
Pickwicks Café is preparing to host a special Christmas fundraiser for the hospital that looked after Scott, the cook and owner, after his terrible car accident. Waitress Megan is liaising with ward administrator Nick, as all the staff who helped with Scott’s recovery are invited. As the fundraiser takes up more and more of their lives, Megan and Nick contact each other more frequently, and their emails and calls start to develop into something more flirty. But can you really fall for someone you’ve never met?
The Mistletoe Mystery by Caroline Dunford
Edwardian heroine (and aristocrat’s granddaughter) Euphemia Martins has encountered some odd and dastardly deeds in her time, but her strange experiences at White Orchards, the grand country house of the Hon. Bertram Stapleford, (her sometime suitor and employer), are something else entirely. How exactly does a down-to-earth vicar’s daughter become embroiled in real-life tales of the supernatural?
When a Child is Born by Jodi Taylor
It's Christmas Day 1066 and a team from St Mary's is going to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror... Or so they think. However, History seems to have different plans for them, and when Max finds herself delivering a child in a peasant's hut, she can't help wondering what History is up to.
Death of a Pantomime Cow by Andrea Frazer
Carsfold has recently opened its new theatre and the Town’s Women’s Guild is to present its first live performances – the pantomime ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ – over Christmas.
DI Harry Falconer has managed to duck two days spent over the festive season in the Carmichael household by pleading other commitments, but treating the whole family, himself included, to tickets to the first performance, on Boxing Day.
But he seems to be able to do nothing straight forward, and when tragedy strikes in the very first Act, he is catapulted back into his professional role with a vengeance: and on a Bank Holiday, nonetheless.
Christmas Eve in the Workhouse by Catrin Collier
The shadow of the workhouse looms large over everyone in Pontypridd in the 1930s. The workhouse staff, Dr John, Dr Lewis, and Nurses Bethan Powell and Laura Ronconi try to bring cheer to the poor and dispossessed, while a newly orphaned child waits for a Christmas miracle.
Andrea Frazer is married with four grown-up children, and lives in the Dordogne with her husband Tony and their six cats. She has wanted to write since she first began to read at the age of five, but has previously been busy raising a family and working as a lecturer in Greek (she has a Fellowship Diploma in Greek) and teaching music. Apart from writing, Andrea continues to teach music, and now also teaches French to expatriates. Her interests include playing several instruments, reading, and choral singing with two choirs.
Catrin Collier is Wales' most prolific and well-known author of historical, romantic fictions. The daughter of a Prussian refugee mother and Welsh father, she grew up in Pontypridd. She has written 19 novels for Orion. Her first historical novel Hearts of Gold, was filmed as a mini-series by the BBC in 2003. She lives with her family on the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea. She also writes crime fiction under the pen name Katherine John.
Katherine John is privileged to have published 9 crime books including a Quick Read, The Corpse’s Tale by Accent Press in English and translation.
In total she has published 40 novels (21 historical as Catrin Collier, 3 raunchy as Caro French, 3 novelisations of TV series as Katherine Hardy, 2 as K A John and 1 as K C Watkins). She also had three stage plays professionally produced before she began writing novels.Her first Catrin Collier Novel, Hearts of Gold was filmed and shown by BBC worldwide.
She frequently gives talks, lectures and participates in Radio/TV Arts/Documentary Programmes (BBC,
Jodi Taylor, International Woman of Mystery, spent some time working undercover forNorth Yorkshire County Library Service. Heavily disguised as the world's most incompetent Facilities Manager she shifted dead dogs, fell out of mobile libraries, and spent far too much time in the gents' toilets.
The idea to re-write history first came to her while studying history A’ level at an evening class. Just One Damned Thing After Another is her first novel and was originally self-published on ebook where it was downloaded by more than 60,000 readers on Amazon. Jodi lives in Gloucestershire.
Caroline Dunford has previously worked as a psychotherapist, a journalist and a non-fiction author. She has a deep love of story, which she believes is at the heart of human nature. She first declared, at five years old, that she wanted to be a writer but was told there was little options of it being a full time job. Undeterred, she started writing short stories, plays and mini novels. She became known for writing plays at primary school including casting and directing the performances. She then grew up and went to university, studied sensible subjects and decided she didn't like the 'real world' one bit. She started out as a freelance journalist and writer, sending off short stories to every magazine she could find and received rejection after rejection until she learnt to better her writing. As a journalist, she was somewhat of a failure as she didn't like upsetting people and therefore never made it to tabloid press. She then studied a part time degree in psychology, which she enjoyed more than her past studied subjects. Caroline then spent years working with other people helping them shape their personal life stories (she is a Freudian at heart) until she decided to take the plunge and write her own stories full time. She believes that writing fiction is now the only way she can stay sane.
Euphemia Martins was partly inspired by the family legend of her great, great grandmother, who ran away from a very rich family and ended up working in service. Unlike Euphemia, she found the life far too hard, but was rescued by a tobacconist, whom she married and with whom she had thirteen children.
Murder casts a sharp light over those around it, revealing characters and morality in unique sharpness. What forces one to take the life of another and how those around react reveals so much about human nature and the fragility of society. Caroline finds the period before WW1, when everyone was setting their playing pieces on the board for global conflict fascinating. She is also intrigued by the start of female emancipation and the class-system breakdown that was taking hold.
Caroline loves puzzles and finds human beings the most exciting puzzles of all. But above all, she believes life must be enjoyed with humour. We must all bring whatever light we can to the darkness.
- Autoren: Katherine John , Catrin Collier , Caroline Dunford , Jodi Taylor , Jenny Kane , Andrea Frazer
- 2015, 260 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Accent Press
- ISBN-10: 178375446X
- ISBN-13: 9781783754465
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.02.2015
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- Größe: 0.24 MB
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