Background
Her mother was a published novelist and Anthea began composing poems and stories before she could write.
(The Detective Book Club series, 3 books in one. Final Mom...)
The Detective Book Club series, 3 books in one. Final Moments by Emma Page, Murder California Style by Jon Breen and John Ball, and Pretty Maids All In A Row by Anthea Fraser
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( James Markham jilts his fiancée for a woman he appears ...)
James Markham jilts his fiancée for a woman he appears to know very little about. Callum Firbank has always been evasive about his childhood, and his wife realizes she doesn’t know much about his family. Jill Irving has everything she could wish for, but she too has secrets in her past. What links these three very different people, and who is the stranger whose sudden appearance causes such terror?
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(Following SYMBOLS AT YOUR DOOR, a romance suspense story ...)
Following SYMBOLS AT YOUR DOOR, a romance suspense story about a painter, his second wife and the daughter from his first marriage, who find themselves increasingly under the influence of the haunting picture which had begun his career.
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(The Walkers, this book relates were a proud close-knit fa...)
The Walkers, this book relates were a proud close-knit family. They owned the local porcelain works and dominated the village. Then murder shattered their unity as though it was their own porcelain and they themselves were fakes. The author has also written "The Nine Bright Shiners" (!987)
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( A new Rona Parish mysteryJournalist Rona Parish is eage...)
A new Rona Parish mysteryJournalist Rona Parish is eager for a fresh challenge. A chance encounter with an old friend, Kate, now married into the Tarlton family, gives her an idea. Rona will research the histories of several long-established family firms in the town, notably the Tarltons and the Clarendon Hotel. Then Kate enlists Rona's help in getting to the bottom of sister-in-law Freya's terrifying nightmares, and Rona finds herself drawn into the complex web of relationships linking the families.
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( A tense and gripping new crime novel from Anthea Fraser...)
A tense and gripping new crime novel from Anthea Fraser featuring the ever-popular DCI Webb Malcolm Bennett, Webb's friend and colleague, has recently remarried, and there is conflict between his grown-up family and his new wife, making for a tense atmosphere at home. Meanwhile, the two detectives have joined forces to tackle a series of shop raids, but are soon overtaken by events which have a shattering effect on Bennett's family. Two of them meet with a violent death within the space of four days, presenting Webb with one of the most traumatic cases of his career.
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(Running away from a failed marriage, Ginnie is forced off...)
Running away from a failed marriage, Ginnie is forced off the road as she drives away by another car driven by a man in a hurry. As she makes a new life in Westhampton, she begins to suspect that the driver of the car is one of the actors in her theatre group, and there is something sinister afoot.
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( There were plenty of men, both tutors and post-graduate...)
There were plenty of men, both tutors and post-graduates, who'd been attracted to Arlette Picard. But when the young French girl disappears from Broadshire University, it sparks one of Chief Inspector Webb's most complex investigations. She was a vivacious young woman, carefree and loved by many — or was she? Was her disappearance been caused by jealousy? It is not just her disappearance that makes Webb uneasy. . On the fringe of his enquires is Professor Warwick, a man whose brilliance teetered on the brink of madness. And the arrival of the girl's parents from France soon leads to a further tragedy, which Webb is helpless to prevent... ‘Death Speaks Softly’ is a gripping crime novel featuring Anthea Fraser's popular detective David Webb. Praise for Anthea Fraser: “A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read" - Booklist “Ms Fraser is her dependable elegant, guileful self withholding the killer's identity till a dying fall" - Sunday Times 'A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story' - Birmingham Post 'Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings' - Yorkshire Post ANTHEA FRASER has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her other books include ‘Pretty Maids all in a Row’, ‘Eleven Who Went Up to Heaven’, The Ten Commandments’, ‘The Seven Stars’ and ‘One is One and All Alone’. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.
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(When the small English village of Middlemarch is invaded ...)
When the small English village of Middlemarch is invaded by an insidious religious cult called the Revelationists, whose tentacles reach even into the local police department, Inspector Webb searches for a connection between the sect and a murdered wine merchant.
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( When schoolteacher Annabel Kendal receives her annual i...)
When schoolteacher Annabel Kendal receives her annual invitation to her grandmother's birthday celebrations, she is not keen to attend. For the apparently happy occasion revives long-buried memories of an earlier, fateful holiday . . .
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( A new Rona Parish mystery. Rona Parish's last assignmen...)
A new Rona Parish mystery. Rona Parish's last assignment, a series of articles on the town of Buckford, is almost complete, when a young woman named Zara Crane approaches her with a request to help her trace her natural parents. Rona's curiosity is aroused not least because she discovers that Zara's birth mother had been murdered in her bath twenty-five years earlier. Though Rona's husband Max and her friends do their best to dissuade her from getting involved in what they fear may turn out to be another dangerous case, Rona cannot resist the challenge. As she starts to trace people who may have known Zara's parents, she finds herself having to deal at the same time with complications in her own life.
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( Kate Romilly left her old life behind when she left her...)
Kate Romilly left her old life behind when she left her unfaithful husband. Moving to the small town of Broadminster with her young son was a fresh start. Closer to her best friend, with a good job, a new flat, it was a chance to start again. But a killer is attacking divorcees... At the scene of each crime, the name ‘Delilah’ is scrawled in lipstick on the victim’s mirror. The danger is coming closer to home. Kate starts receiving strange ‘gifts’, a dead pigeon, a dismembered moth - she fears she may be the next target Chief Inspect Webb and Sergeant Jackson are in a race against time to unravel this seemingly impossible mystery and find the culprit before the next dead body found is Kate Romilly’s. ‘A Shroud for Delilah’ is a fast-paced crime novel featuring Anthea Fraser’s popular detective David Webb. Praise for Anthea Fraser: “A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read" - Booklist “Ms Fraser is her dependable elegant, guileful self withholding the killer's identity till a dying fall" - Sunday Times 'A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story' - Birmingham Post 'Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings' - Yorkshire Post ANTHEA FRASER has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her other books include ‘Pretty Maids all in a Row’, ‘Eleven Who Went Up to Heaven’, The Ten Commandments’, ‘The Seven Stars’ and ‘One is One and All Alone’. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.
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( A Rona Parish Mystery - Journalist Rona Parish continue...)
A Rona Parish Mystery - Journalist Rona Parish continues her popular series on local family businesses with a piece on the Willow furniture emporium. For once, there dont seem to be any skeletons in the Willow family cupboards. But when Louisa, the daughter of Ronas reserved elderly neighbours, comes to Rona with a plea for help, it seems there may be a dark secret closer to home, and all Ronas journalistic instincts are aroused . . .
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( The new Rona Parish mysteryWriting an article on old fa...)
The new Rona Parish mysteryWriting an article on old family businesses, Rona Parish contacts Curzon, local manufacturers of fine bone china, when she learns theyre launching a spectacular new line. Little does she realize that she will directly precipitate a terrible tragedy, a tragedy whose roots stretch back to George Curzon, son of the firms founder and known to his contemporaries as The Rogue in Porcelain...
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("Fraser turns out a steady stream of solid British Crime ...)
"Fraser turns out a steady stream of solid British Crime novels." - BOOKLIST When Verity Ryder witnesses the death of a clergyman with whom she has little connection, his final whispered words - 'The Twelve Apostles' - seem highly mysterious. For some reason they seem to refer to her nephew Adam, who Verity knows is involved with something beyond his control. But any knowledge the clergyman might have had is lost for ever. Chief Inspector Webb is the only man who can delve into a past long forgotten by all but its perpetrators to solve an old mystery.
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Her mother was a published novelist and Anthea began composing poems and stories before she could write.
At the age of five she announced that she wanted to be an author Her first professional publications were short stories. Her first novel was published in 1970.
Her first significant success was with her 1974 novel Laura Possessed, which had a paranormal theme, and was followed by 6 other similarly themed novels.
She then wrote some romantic suspense stories before turning to writing crime fiction. She has created two mystery novel series, the first featuring "Detective Chief Inspector David Webb" with the Shillingham police.
There are 16 novels in this series, the last twelve of which bear titles based on the lyrics to the traditional English folk song Green Grow the Rushes, O.
The second series features "Rona Parish", a biographer and freelance journalist. Anthea Fraser served as secretary of the Crime Writers" Association from 1986 to 1996.
She has also published five novels under the pen name "Vanessa Graham".
( A tense and gripping new crime novel from Anthea Fraser...)
(When the small English village of Middlemarch is invaded ...)
(Following SYMBOLS AT YOUR DOOR, a romance suspense story ...)
( The new Rona Parish mysteryWriting an article on old fa...)
( A Rona Parish Mystery - Journalist Rona Parish continue...)
( When schoolteacher Annabel Kendal receives her annual i...)
(Running away from a failed marriage, Ginnie is forced off...)
( There were plenty of men, both tutors and post-graduate...)
( James Markham jilts his fiancée for a woman he appears ...)
( A new Rona Parish mysteryJournalist Rona Parish is eage...)
( Kate Romilly left her old life behind when she left her...)
("Fraser turns out a steady stream of solid British Crime ...)
(The Walkers, this book relates were a proud close-knit fa...)
(The Detective Book Club series, 3 books in one. Final Mom...)
( A new Rona Parish mystery. Rona Parish's last assignmen...)
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(Book by Fraser, Anthea)
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