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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 16
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Ellie hires a carer to look after her elderly housekeeper, but the carer, Claire, has made bizarre changes to the household routine and is heavily involved with a suspicious church attempting to get funds from Ellie's charitable trust.
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 14
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Ellie's friend on the police force asks her to enquire about some deaths in the community which might or might not be suicide, and various relatives of the deceased confirm their suspicions. Unbeknown to the police, an elderly lady moving in and out of dementia has come across some drugs and is using them to ease people in pain out of their misery. At the same time, the project to turn the quirky, turreted Pryce House into a hotel is dogged by problems...
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Murder is no joke, as Ellie Quicke is only too aware in this absorbing and entertaining mystery.
Ellie Quicke is shocked when her daughter, Diana, turns up at her door with a suitcase in tow. Bunny Brewster has died of an overdose, and Diana's husband, Evan, is convinced that she is responsible for his friend's death. It seems that Diana and four other neglected, bored wives of Evan's friends recently joked about ways to kill their husbands. Diana's...
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"No good deed goes unpunished, as Ellie Quicke finds out in this engaging and entertaining mystery.Ellie Quicke believes in helping people in trouble. But it would appear that her latest good deed has returned to bite her when she takes in a weeping girl who needs somewhere to stay. Selfish, thoughtless and irresponsible, Angelica is by no means the easiest of house guests, confident that someone else will always pick up the bill. But when a dead...
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 15
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Ellie opens the door to a man who is a stranger but instantly recognisable as the father of her housekeeper's brilliant but difficult young son. Mikey had been conceived at a party during which his mother Vera, a schoolgirl, had been drugged and raped. Abdi hadn't wanted anything further to do with her - then. Twelve years later he is a high-flying consultant whose wife cannot have children, and he aims to pay off Vera and adopt Mikey: a suggestion...
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 13
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Ellie Quicke investigates the mysterious deaths of members of the Hooper family, which her daughter is set to marry into.
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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 17
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Ellie Quicke finds you can choose your friends but not your family. Poppy's wealthy father hadn't liked the look of the men whom his twin daughters intended to marry, and had set them up in the Magpie fashion boutique to ensure they would be able to support themselves; at the same time ensuring that the girls made a will in one another's favour. The business prospered and expanded until, many years later, skeletons start to come out of the closet....
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The kindness of strangers comes under suspicion in the enjoyable new Ellie Quicke mystery.
Ellie's husband Thomas, a retired minister, is suspicious when he receives not one but five letters advising him that he has been bequeathed money by five different people in their wills. He barely knew three of his benefactors, and what could possibly connect him to the other two strangers?
Sensing something isn't right, and with Thomas's reputation at...
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