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Lill Hodsden was a monster. She rode roughshod over her daughter, wiped her feet on her husband, blackmailed her lovers, and smothered her sons with a mother’s love that left them screaming out for freedom. Lill set the hackles rising all over Todmarsh, the little South Coast town she queened over. She was just asking to be done in. When Lill was found garrotted on Thursday, on the way home from one of her boyfriends’, the case was wide open, and half Todmarsh would have regarded the murderer as a civic benefactor. Inspector McHale, on his first murder case, is a man who values intelligence, particularly his own. He is convinced he is going to discover the killer. But is he going to discover the right one?]]> Thu, 27 Nov 2014 03:16:10 +0200 https://library.land/robert-barnard/425366-death_in_a_cold_climate.html https://library.land/robert-barnard/425366-death_in_a_cold_climate.html
It was midday on December 21st in the city of Tromsø when the boy was last seen: a tall, blond boy swathed in anorak and scarf against the Arctic noon. After that he wasn’t seen again, not until three months later, when Professor Mackenzie’s dog started sniffing around in the snow and uncovered a human ear, attached to a naked corpse. Nobody knew who he was, or where he had come from. And after three months it was almost impossible to track down the identity of the corpse. But Inspector Fagermo refused to give up, and as he probed deeper into the Arctic city he began to discover a dangerous conspiracy of blackmail, espionage, and cold-blooded murder.]]> Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:16:14 +0200 https://library.land/robert-barnard/426298-the_habit_of_widowhood.html https://library.land/robert-barnard/426298-the_habit_of_widowhood.html
Prize-winning author Robert Barnard presents seventeen witty mystery stories featuring everyday characters who discover their potential for murder, including a young woman who weds a string of old men and develops a penchant for widowhood.]]> Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:00:37 +0200 https://library.land/robert-barnard/425365-death_and_the_chaste_apprentice.html https://library.land/robert-barnard/425365-death_and_the_chaste_apprentice.html
At the Ketterick Arts Festival no one relishes the dubious art of innuendo more than Des Capper, a font of dubious gossip and unwanted advice. To the horror of the actors and singers performing at the Festival, Des has been promoted to landlord of the Saracen’s Head, the Elizabethan inn that is at the Festival’s heart. And when Des toddles off to meet his maker, courtesy of someone’s helpful shove, only his wretched wife can summon up a tear. Readers, meanwhile, will have trouble containing their snickers at the wickedly witty characterizations.]]> Thu, 27 Nov 2014 03:16:12 +0200 https://library.land/robert-barnard/425379-fete_fatale.html https://library.land/robert-barnard/425379-fete_fatale.html
The rigidly conservative town of Hexton-on-Weir, where twelve-year residents, such as veterinarian Marcus Kitteredge and his wife Helen, are still regarded as newcomers, sponsors a church fair which becomes the background for murder.]]> Sun, 27 Nov 1994 03:16:32 +0200 https://library.land/robert-barnard/425387-a_little_local_murder.html https://library.land/robert-barnard/425387-a_little_local_murder.html
Radio Broadwich decides to do a documentary on the small village of Twytching for international broadcast, and the townspeople divide between those who seek the patronage of Mrs. Deborah Withins, arbiter of taste and morals, and those determined to displace her in the cutthroat contest for media recognition. When a rash of poison-pen letters and a murder coincide, quiet inspector George Parrish begins to uncover secrets the leading citizens of Twytching had thought, and fervently hoped, were buried.]]> Fri, 27 Nov 1992 03:16:46 +0200 https://library.land/robert-barnard/436807-the_skeleton_in_the_grass.html https://library.land/robert-barnard/436807-the_skeleton_in_the_grass.html
Sara Causseley could not be more delighted by her new job as governess to the aristocratic Hallam clan. The children are adorable, the gardens are a dream, and the conversation stimulating. But ominous political clouds are gathering over Europe, and as England slips inexorably toward World War II, the Hallams’ political views make the family increasingly unpopular. No one, though, suspects the extent of the malice that is percolating in the surrounding countryside until a human skeleton, and then a human corpse, are found on the Hallam grounds, sending some kind of ugly message.]]> Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:02:52 +0200 https://library.land/robert-barnard/425369-death_by_sheer_torture.html https://library.land/robert-barnard/425369-death_by_sheer_torture.html
Inspector Perry Trethowan reads in the obituaries that his estranged father has died under peculiar circumstances: he was fooling around with a form of self-torture called strappado. At the request of his supervisor, Peter returns to his ancestral home to determine if any of his cousins or siblings might have helped the old man to his bizarre end.]]> Wed, 27 Nov 2013 03:16:18 +0200 https://library.land/robert-barnard/425386-political_suicide.html https://library.land/robert-barnard/425386-political_suicide.html
When the body of a Member of Parliament is found floating in the Thames, everyone assumes it is suicide, except for Superintendent Sutcliffe, whose investigation of the case reveals some nasty and ruthless politics. Three-time Edgar Award nominee Robert Barnard takes on the cunning and ruthless world of politics in this suspenseful tale centering upon the mysterious death of a member of Parliament.]]> Thu, 27 Nov 2014 03:16:41 +0200 https://library.land/robert-barnard/425374-a_fatal_attachment.html https://library.land/robert-barnard/425374-a_fatal_attachment.html
A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty. As old Lydia Perceval plans to destroy yet another group of impressionable young children’s love for their parents, the list of those who would have her die grows longer.]]> Sun, 27 Nov 2005 03:16:25 +0200 https://library.land/robert-barnard/426295-the_case_of_the_missing_bronte.html https://library.land/robert-barnard/426295-the_case_of_the_missing_bronte.html
Scotland Yard Superintendent Perry Trethowan is enjoying a vacation evening at a cozy Yorkshire pub when an old woman shows him an original, unpublished Bronte manuscript. Trethowan agrees to engage in a little literary detective work, but he doesn’t realize that for a criminal the manuscript is motive for theft, torture—and murder.]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:00:32 +0200 https://library.land/robert-barnard/425377-at_deaths_door.html https://library.land/robert-barnard/425377-at_deaths_door.html
In Barnard’s smoothly skilled sixteenth mystery, Caroline and Roderick Cotterel live a quiet life in Sussex with their grown, learning-disabled daughter and Roderick’s senile, bedridden father Benedict, a once-famous and notorious novelist. But when Roderick’s half-sister Cordelia asks to visit and look through Benedict’s papers, things liven up. Their father’s illegitimate daughter, she is writing a biography of her mother, Dame Myra Mason, a renowned actress whose rancorous break-up with their father had been much publicized. The biography will be more in the line of an expose, Cordelia having been emotionally abused by her mother, and no one is surprised when Dame Myra herself shows up to put a stop to it. When she is murdered in the local pub that night a host of possible suspects, led of course by Cordelia, is revealed. After some admirable and intuitive sleuthing by Chief Inspector Meredith identifies the murderer and accomplice, a secret long...]]> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 03:16:28 +0200 https://library.land/robert-barnard/425368-a_hovering_of_vultures.html https://library.land/robert-barnard/425368-a_hovering_of_vultures.html
Death returns to a Yorkshire village when a museum opens on the site of an unexplained murder/suicide where a renowned author killed his sister with an ax and shot himself.]]> Sun, 27 Nov 2016 03:16:17 +0200