This is a delightful book by the very funny Clare Pooley. Everyone in it behaves in a completely unexpected manner. It was such a testament to humanity and caring. It has a great opening scene during which a policewoman shouts desperately, "Will you all please stop confessing!" It just gets better from there!
“Pooley weaves together the most cleverly flawed and lovable characters and then sets them free to prove that we are limitless at any age.” —Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of Summer Romance
A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times-bestselling author Clare Pooley
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.
The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what…
Ann Cleeves never disappoints with the wonderful Vera Stanhope mysteries. This latest one is as moody and twisty turny as you could wish. Every thing you want in a British Mystery, with a detective as unusual and delightful as any you'll find on the pages of fiction.
'Expertly plotted and mesmerising' - Mick Herron A local myth. A deadly threat. Vera Stanhope, star of ITV's Vera, returns for her most shocking case so far . . .
I can't see anything. It's as if this house is on its own in the world, as if I'm on my own in the world and nobody would care if I died . . .
When a body is found on the common outside Rosebank, an isolated care home for troubled teens, DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who never showed…
The Victorian era mysteries featuring upper class private detective Lenox are a time-traveller's delight. You are plunged into the details of London in the nineteenth century and you travel with an intelligent and thoughtful young detective and his lovely widowed next door neighbour. The historical detail is fine and delicate, and you are never pulled away from an engaging story by too much historical research. Always just enough to ground you thoroughly in the period and the story.
It is 1948, and the little hamlet of King's Cove is rocked by a massive explosion. Ex-spy, Lane Winslow hikes up the mountain to where the noise comes from and finds a wartime bomb unlike any she has seen before, but she also finds a little girl, barely alive. Who is she, and how has she come to live here in complete isolation with her Japanese mother since 1942? It is up to Lane and her husband, Frederick Darling of the Nelson police department to find out and protect her from someone who wants her dead.
