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Language
English
Description
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils, Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town's council...
Author
Series
Aunt Dimity volume 16
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
Returning to Finch to discover her father embroiled in a renovation project that has unveiled a mysterious painting, Lori Shepherd becomes caught up in a case of false identity involving a local resident and supernatural uprisings.
5) Busy body
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mystery volume 21
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
When Mr. John Sunday, a self-important officer with the Health and Safety Board, is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife during the village's Christmas festivities, Agatha's detective agency is on the case.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Much as changed in Wandlebury since Barbara Buncle (now Barbara Abbott) first moved to the charming English village. But as the mistress of her own home with two small children to look after, Barbara finds that she has distressingly little time to keep up with the goings-on of her friends and neighbors. Luckily, Barbara's niece, Jerry Abbott, is more than willing to keep tabs on the news in Wandlebury. And with juicy tidbits of gossip about everything...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A depression-era factory town in England is turned upside-down by an enigmatic white-haired newcomer from the coast who particularly influences a motherless 13-year-old girl, a middle-aged bachelor and the factory's Oxford-educated spinster heir.
10) Middlemarch
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in a fictional Midlands town, the novel chronicles nineteenth-century English provincial life through its precisely delineated characters, weaving many stories into one richly textured tapestry.
11) Rumor has it
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Would you be tempted? Newly single, Tilly Cole impulsively accepts a job offer in a small town as a "Girl Friday." Fun job, country house, fresh start, why not? But soon she finds herself in a hotbed of gossip, intrigue, and rampant rivalry for the town's most desirable bachelor-Jack Lucas. Rumors of Jack's "love 'em and leave 'em" escapes abound, and Tilly decides to do the mature, sensible thing... avoid Jack at all cost. But the more time Tilly...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a failed landowner's accidental death, his fragile young widow struggles to survive, his naturalist friend keeps a series of unusual pets, and an enigmatic debt collector plots an audacious robbery.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 1
Publisher
Onyx
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"At the Man with a Load of Mischief, they found a dead man with his head stuck in a beer keg. At the Jack and Hammer, another body was stuck out of the beam of the pub's sign, replacing the mechanical man who kept the time. Two pubs. Two murders. One Scotland Yard inspector called in to help. Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury arrives in Long Piddleton and finds everyone in the postcard village looking outside of town for the killer. Except for...
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