Books by Jennie Melville and Complete Book Reviews

Jennie Melville, Author Minotaur Books $15.95 (225p) ISBN 978-0-312-03895-3
As Gwendoline Butler, this British author writes the Detective Coffin series; as Melville, she has been praised for Windsor Red and Murder Has a Pretty Face . All of them are superior to this interminable effort. The Garden is a London enclave, home
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Jennie Melville, Author Minotaur Books $15.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-312-05999-6
Charmian Daniels (last seen in Murder in the Garden ), chief metropolitan police superintendent of Central London, interrupts a medical leave when beautiful Vivien Charles, member of a witches' coven, is found fatally stabbed in her home, her corpse
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Jennie Melville, Author Minotaur Books $17.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-312-08757-9
Rife with enticing clues and evasive suspects, Melville's 18th mystery, following Witching Murder , is hard to put down. In the English town of Windsor, in the shadow of the castle, widowed policewoman Charmian Daniels documents the strangling death
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Jennie Melville, Author Minotaur Books $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-09813-1
Charmianspok Daniels, Chief Superintendent in the London Police who was last seen in Dead Set , returns in a suspenseful case that involves her goddaughter, Kate Cooper, and her friend, Sergeant Dolly Barstow of the Merrywick CID, in murder. Dead is
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Jennie Melville, Author Minotaur Books $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-11099-4
High-ranking English policewoman Charmian Daniels hopes to escape some of the pressures of her job in her newly purchased weekend cottage but finds murder and personal conflict follow her even to the village of Brideswell. There the social-climbing...
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Jennie Melville, Author Minotaur Books $20.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-14681-8
This flat British mystery is set in Windsor where, 10 years earlier, a student at an exclusive school was decapitated and two teachers disappeared. The case remains unsolved, the school closed. Now, in order to sell the building, Emily Bailey,...
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Jennie Melville, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-312-01846-7
Charmian Daniels, a British policewoman on her way up, is using a sabbatical ostensibly taken to study women and crime as a cover to investigate the activities of a group of female recidivists. A tip has indicated that a serious incident is planned...
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Jennie Melville, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (253p) ISBN 978-0-312-03405-4
Melville brings back recently widowed CID Inspector Charmian Daniels, last seen in Windsor Red . A murder and several burglaries have struck her quiet English town, and Charmian must take over both cases when her superior officer is injured. The...
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