Clare Curzon, Author Doubleday Books $14.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-385-41668-9
When the body of a charming young man from a prominent family is found in a supermarket parking lot, slashed almost beyond recognition, the murder is at first considered the accidental outcome of a series of muggings that has been plaguing the...
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Clare Curzon, Author Severn House Publishers $25.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5959-4
A contemporary gothic set at a country house.
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Clare Curzon, Author Severn House Publishers $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5815-3
Dangerous Practice, the finale of the Lucy Sedgwick trilogy (after Guilty Knowledge and The Colour of Blood), finds the impulsive Londoner recently remarried and hot on the trail of another crime in this detailed period mystery. One of her new ...
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Clare Curzon, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (219p) ISBN 978-0-312-10453-5
A self-reflective conceit marks Curzon's ninth British police procedural featuring Superintendent Mike Yeadings. The tale, which is peopled by characters who belong, observes constable Rosemary Zyczynski, to ``body-in-the-library crime fiction,'' is
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Clare Curzon, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13132-6
Two missing wives, two deaths and a troubled teen in a southern English town create more than enough work for Superintendent Mike Yeadings in his 10th outing. The first part of this story belongs to teenager Owen Stafford, confused by his parents'...
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Clare Curzon, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-07664-1
Steeped in acronyms and conventions familiar mainly to ardent fans of English procedurals, this slow-paced but absorbing tale examines the dichotomy between the old landed gentry and the new gentleman farmers. Recluse Lorely Pelling, daughter of a...
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Clare Curzon, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-28821-1
British author Clare Curzon delivers another tantalizing puzzler in Body of a Woman: A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery, following Don't Leave Me (Forecasts, Jan. 21, 2002). How did respectable Leila Knightley, a small-town gift-shop...
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Clare Curzon, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-26169-6
Departing from her successful Thames Valley mystery series, Curzon tells with her usual elegance an intriguing tale of two very different women at the turn of the 20th century. Eugenie, Viscountess Crowthorne, and her sister-in-law, Lady Isabelle...
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Clare Curzon, Author Minotaur Books $20.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-15079-2
Superintendent Mike Yeadings (Nice People, 1995, etc.) returns with his team to investigate murder in the tidy English village of Mardham. The day after a music student escapes a stalker on her way home from the train, a watchman finds the body of a
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Those who enjoy traditional British police procedurals need look no further than veteran Curzon's charming tale featuring Superintendent Mike Yeadings of the Thames Valley Police in a case involving one of the rarest crimes found in detective...
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Clare Curzon, Author . Severn $28.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6863-3
In this intriguing entry in Curzon's long-running Supt. Mike Yeadings series (Off Track
, etc.), the discovery of a young woman's body hanging upside down from an oak tree surrounded by a circle of scorch marks on a country estate baffles...
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Clare Curzon, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (331p) ISBN 978-0-312-37532-4
In less capable hands, Curzon's 22nd Mike Yeadings mystery (after 2008's Payback
), which interweaves three primary narratives and at times several secondary ones, might be chaotic and frustrating. Instead, the author effortlessly elicits...
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Clare Curzon, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (315p) ISBN 978-0-312-37531-7
At the outset of Curzon’s entertaining 21st Mike Yeadings mystery (after 2007’s The Edge
), a biker deliberately runs down Warren Laing, Sandy Craddock’s estranged half-brother, outside the auction house where Sandy works as an...
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Clare Curzon, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-312-34963-9
At the start of Curzon's intelligently contrived 12th Mike Yeadings mystery (after 2005's The Last to Leave
), a Filipino bartender named Ramón watches in horror as the body of wealthy 94-year-old invalid Emily Withers plummets from...
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Clare Curzon, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-312-31876-5
At the start of British author Curzon's assured 11th Mike Yeadings police procedural (after 2004's A Meeting of Minds
), antagonistic members of the Dellar family have put aside past grievances to celebrate patriarch Carlton Dellar's...
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Clare Curzon, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne $22.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-312-31874-1
Prolific British crime writer Curzon convincingly makes the case for a larger U.S. readership with this well-crafted whodunit, the 10th entry in her series to feature Det. Supt. Mike Yeadings (after 2003's The Body of a Woman
). Yeadings and his
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Clare Curzon, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-28678-1
When Julie, the young daughter of well-to-do writer Daniel Winterton, suddenly vanishes in this winning police procedural from British veteran Curzon (Cold Hands), Thames Valley Supt. Mike Yeadings has little doubt that all is not well on the...
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