Betty Rowlands, Author . Severn $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5602-9
A slow plot and a weak supporting cast undermine an otherwise able effort from British veteran Rowlands (Death at Dearley Manor,
etc.). The sudden suspicious deaths of two "initiates" at the Release Your Cosmic Energy (RYCE) Foundation seem too much
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Betty Rowlands, Author Walker & Company $19.95 (253p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3209-5
Rowland's second mystery featuring author Melissa Craig ( A Little Gentle Sleuthing ) confirms Melissa as a modernized (and younger) Miss Marple. Cotswold resident Melissa and her painter friend Iris Ash attend commencement ceremonies at Ravenswood...
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Betty Rowlands, Author Walker & Company $19.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3228-6
English crime writer Melissa Craig, seen before in A Little Gentle Sleuthing , is researching her next novel near the Cevennes mountains in the south of France while her friend Iris Ash teaches an art workshop at a friend's estate. Within days, two...
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Betty Rowlands, Author Walker & Company $19.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3180-7
Introduced in A Little Gentle Sleuthing , plucky mystery writer Melissa Craig gets a taste of real-life nastiness in her low-key fourth adventure. Melissa agrees when millionaire Richard Mitchell asks her to write a murder mystery script for his...
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Betty Rowlands, Author Severn House Publishers $26.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5974-7
Scenes of Crime Officer Sukey Reynolds once again goes beyond her usual duties to investigate a gruesome murder, at the risk of offending her lover, DI Jim Castle.
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Betty Rowlands. Severn, $27.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6990-6
At the start of Rowlands's routine 11th police procedural featuring Det. Constable Sukey Reynolds, of the Avon and Somerset CID (after 2009's A Fool There Was), milkman Joe Atwood tells the police how he entered the cottage of regular customer...
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Betty Rowlands. Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8214-1
Rowlands’s plodding 12th Sukey Reynolds mystery (after 2011’s Miss Minchin Dies) has Sukey and her fellow detective constable of the Avon and Somerset CID, Vicky Armstrong, methodically investigating the murder of Fenella Tremaine, found in a...
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Betty Rowlands. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8391-9
In Rowlands’s low-key 13th mystery featuring Det. Constable Sukey Reynolds (after 2012’s Unnatural Wastage), Sukey and her newly promoted boss, Det. Sgt. Vicky Armstrong, look into the suspicious drowning death of Lance Rainbird at a classical music
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