The latest in this savvy historical mystery takes Kate to a small town full of dark secrets. A mystery that is also a character(s) study. Worth the read!Reviewed for Affaire de Coeur Magazine: http://affairedecoeur.com.
Nothing ever happens in August, and tenacious sleuth Kate Shackleton deserves a break. Heading off for a long-overdue holiday to Whitby, she visits her school friend Alma who works as a fortune teller there.Kate had been looking forward to a relaxing seaside sojourn, but upon arrival discovers that ...
It took me a while to read this because school was keeping me so busy. This is a solid historical mystery with an intrepid female detective in the 1920s. There is some very dark aspects to this story that are surprising for a genteel historical mystery. Well-plotted and populated with interesting ch...
I received a copy of this book from the publishers and this is my honest opinion of the book. Kate Shackleton has taken her niece, Harriet, to the countryside to recuperate after an illness. It will also give Kate time to assess her relationship with Lucian Simonson. Staying in Lucian's deceased A...
A DEATH IN THE DALES Frances Brody Published in paperback original by Piatkus, on October 1st 2015, price £8.99 The new fantastically quirky crime novel featuring amateur sleuth extraordinaire Kate Shackleton A murder most foul When the landlord of a Yorkshire tavern is killed in plain sight...
Kate, a still-young, well-to-do war widow has found herself doing amateur detective work here and there. An old VAD friend asks her to do so professionally. Her father has been missing for years, presumed a suicide. Kate has a tight schedule to solve a disappearance before the Braithwaite wedding. ...
A long-lost relative shows up on Mrs Shackleton's doorstep asking for help: Her husband is missing, perhaps dead. Reluctantly, Kate is drawn into an investigation that reveals the interplay of relationships and secrets in a little country town, as well as putting her face to face with a part of her ...
Mrs Shackleton's second professional case involves tracking down a thief who robbed a pawnshop in bright daylight. The murdered man she stumbles upon outside a Harrowgate theatre seems, at first, unconnected. But that isn't the way detective novels work, is it? Kate is dragged into an investigation ...
I was sent a copy of this book by the publisher and this is my honest opinion of the book. Kate Shackleton is engaged by Lady Coulton to find her long lost daughter, given up for adoption over 20 years ago. Kate soon finds her investigation hitting dead ends but has her attention distracted by anoth...
My second book by this author, and I still like it. She's got an interesting mixture of background, and her family gets involved in this book too. Quite telling on the subject of the huge social upheaval that took place after the first world war, this episode involving Communism and trade unions as ...
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