Tato autorka se proslavila jako Faith Martin, ale pod různými jmény se věnuje různým žánrům. Jako Joyce Cato píše klasičtější „příjemné“ detektivky. Pod pseudonymem Maxine Barry tvoří romantické romány a jako Jessie Daniels se věnuje „strašidelným“ zločinným příběhům. Její rozmanité psaní nabízí čtenářům širokou škálu stylů a témat, od napínavých detektivních zápletek po romantické příběhy.
V úvodním díle detektivní série, zasazené do malebného prostředí Oxfordu 60. let dvacátého století, se mladá policistka Trudy dostává po boku obávaného koronera Clementa Rydera ke své první vraždě. Jde o podivné úmrtí psychicky nevyrovnané ženy. Zbytek oddělení mezitím vyšetřuje sérii zločinů spojených s místním podnikatelem. Doktor Ryder se ale nemůže zbavit dojmu, že spolu oba případy souvisí.
Prosluněný Oxford zdrtí zpráva o tragédii, když je v řece nalezena mrtvola studenta. Policistka Trudy Lovedayová spolu s koronerem Clementem Ryderem se ujímají případu, u něhož je jasné, že nebude ani trochu jednoduchý. Svědci zarytě mlčí, vyšetřovatelé sledují jednu falešnou stopu za druhou a pověst oblíbeného studenta začíná vykazovat povážlivé trhliny...
The fifth book in the best-selling DI Hillary Greene series, Murder in the Family sees DI Hillary Greene Putting the pursuit of justice over internal politics - and passed over for a promotion as a result.
Meet DI HILLARY GREENE, a policewoman struggling to save her career and catch criminals. Flo Jenkins is found murdered inher armchair, a paperknife sticking out of her chest. The old woman was well liked and nothing seems to have been stolen fromher home. And it was common knowledge that she only had weeks to live. Why kill a dying woman?
A GRIPPING CRIME MYSTERY FULL OF TWISTSMeet DI HILLARY GREENE, a policewoman struggling to save her career and catch criminals.
A GRIPPING CRIME MYSTERY FULL OF TWISTSMeet DI HILLARY GREENE, a policewoman struggling to save her career and catch criminals.
Hillary Greene returns to Thames Valley Police HQ, acting as a consultant for the Crime Review Team, looking into murders which the police have never been able to solve. She wasn’t sure she wanted to go back. But solving crimes is irresistible for Hillary Greene. And it doesn’t hurt that her new boss is devastatingly handsome. Twenty years ago, mother-of-three Anna McRae was found beaten to death in her kitchen with a rolling pin. She’d been having an affair with her brother-in-law, so the prime suspect was Anna’s sister Debbie. But the evidence never added up. However as Hillary digs deeper, more secrets and betrayals emerge. Who wanted Anna dead and can Hillary finally bring her justice? Meanwhile, Hillary is distracted by an unknown admirer, who quickly seems to be going from suitor to stalker. Can Hillary solve a fiendishly complex case from the past while fending off unwanted attention?
Please note this is completely revised edition of The Lavender Lady Casefile published under Faith Martin’s pen name Jessie Daniels.DO GHOSTS EXIST? PERHAPS, IF THEY HAVE A MURDEROUS SECRET TO TELL.Newly-widowed Effie James is asked by her old friend Duncan, a psychology professor, to help him with his latest book. Her task is to join the C-Fits, a paranormal investigation team, on their ghost-watching vigils and report back to Duncan.Corwin Fielding, the attractive and erudite leader of the paranormal researchers has no objections to an ‘impartial’ observer on his team, and the others in the group are a friendly and welcoming bunch.The C-Fits are called in by Isabel Atkins. She is worried that her recently deceased mother might be haunting her old family home. Effie quickly finds herself thrown in at the deep end.THE SCENT OF LAVENDER MYSTERIOUSLY COMES AND GOES IN THE OLD LADY'S BEDROOM.But Effie comes to suspect that the old lady might not have died of natural causes after all. And that her killer might not take very kindly to the idea of a group of strangers poking their noses in . . .IN A COSY OXFORDSHIRE VILLAGE SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG.
DI Hillary Greene is called out to attend a suspicious death at Three Oaks Farm in the picturesque village of Steeple Barton. The large farmhouse is filled with music and revellers, but when she steps into the farm's cowshed, Hillary finds the bride - dead.
A would-be politician is found battered to death in the kitchen of his Oxfordshire home. His wife's alibi is full of holes and there'sanother woman in the picture. His seemingly mild-mannered political rival can't seem to place himself at the time of death either. DI Hillary Greene is called in to get to the bottom of this perplexing murder.