font size="+1">'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger**'**A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara NadelSummer in the Lincolnshire Wolds and Clarice is rung by her friend Louise, asking whether she can look after Susie, her son's lively Boxer, as 41-year-old Guy has gone missing from the family home.His mother thinks he has been suffering from depression but m...

'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger**'**A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara Nadel'This debut promises to build up into a popular series' Daily MailClarice Beech has two passions in life: animal rescue and Detective Inspector Rick Beech. She is devoted to the first but she and Rick have been separated for the past six months - life without him ...

After receiving a call from her estranged half-sister Lena, the life of heiress Mauve Gilcrest begins to unravel. Mauve discovers Lena’s flat covered in blood but finds no body—only a doll linked to a murder eight years earlier, that of Paulette Franklin. Haunted by fragmented memories of the crime, Mauve is forced to confront her dark past.When the police investigation implicates her in the murders of both Paulette and Lena, Mauve goes on the run. Charlie Morrison, her legal advis...

**'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger'A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara Nadel**When Clarice Beech finds her friend Peter Ramsey dead in his kitchen, she believes he's succumbed to a fatal heart attack.Peter, who lived in one of the five cottages on Magpie Row in the Lincolnshire Wolds, was a keen supporter of stray cats - which made him very unpopular with the neighbours. And after Chris Morris, an a...

'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger**'**A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara NadelDriving home from a ceramics evening class, Clarice Beech reflects on the absence of one of her students, Colin Compton-Smythe. Later, Emily, Colin's daughter, telephones to say her father has died during routine surgery. Distraught, Emily opens up to Clarice about his wretched childhood and the d...

'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger**'**A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara NadelClarice Beech has two passions in life: animal rescue and Detective Inspector Rick Beech. She is devoted to the first but she and Rick have been separated for the past six months - life without him is hard.Clarice shares her other love, for contemporary ceramics, with the charming Lady Vit...

font size="+1">'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger**'**A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara NadelSummer in the Lincolnshire Wolds and Clarice is rung by her friend Louise, asking whether she can look after Susie, her son's lively Boxer, as 41-year-old Guy has gone missing from the family home.His mother thinks he has been suffering from depression but m...

'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger on The Cat and the Corpse in the Old Barn**'**A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara Nadel on The Cat and the Corpse in the Old BarnDriving home from a ceramics evening class, Clarice Beech reflects on the absence of one of her students, Colin Compton-Smythe. Later, Emily, Colin's daughter, te...

Clarice Beech setzt sich mit Leidenschaft für Tiere ein. Als Walter, der dreibeinige Kater der wohlhabenden Lady Vita Fayrepoynt vom heimischen Anwesen Weatherby Hall verschwindet, macht Clarice sich auf die Suche nach ihm. Sie findet ihn auf dem Heuboden der alten "Galgenscheune", doch bei dem Versuch, ihn zu fangen, stürzt sie ab ... und landet direkt auf der Leiche der armen Rose Miller. Zusammen mit Rick Beech, ihrem getrennt lebenden Ehemann, macht Clarice sich auf die Suche nach dem ...

Sommer in den Lincolnshire Wolds. Als Clarice Beech den Hilferuf ihrer Freundin Louise erhält, kann sie nicht ablehnen: Sie soll sich um eine lebhafte Boxer-Hündin namens Susie kümmern, die Louises Sohn Guy gehört, einem Anwalt, der in einen spektakulären Fall verstrickt ist. Guy ist seit Tagen spurlos verschwunden. Zuletzt wurde er gesehen, wie er in den Wagen eines Unbekannten stieg. Von Anfang an verhält sich Susie merkwürdig. Immer wieder zieht es sie zu einem kleinen Wald hin, in dem ...

The bestselling author of Court of Fives sets off the Highroad trilogy with "a fast-paced space opera with a likable, courageous female protagonist" ( Library Journal).Willful as well as physically brave, Lily Ransome is dissatisfied by the options available to her on Unruli: She can either join her family's lucrative mining business or begin procreating. When Heredes, her beloved martial arts instructor, tutor, and father figure, is kidnapped by ...

"Magical and full of queer joy—this book is such a dream!" —Alice Oseman, New York Times best-selling author of Heartstopper The course of true love never did run smooth . . . and neither does high school in this new graphic novel series for fans of Heartstopper and The Prince and the Dressmaker. Vi came to Arden High for a fresh start and a chance to wear beanies and button-ups instead of uniform skirts. And though doing it without her twin feels like being split in half, Vi finds her str...