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Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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The serene North Wales village of Llanfair is again roiled by intrigue and murder. Evan's worries begin when his schoolteacher wife, Bronwen, introduces him to Jamila, a London-born teenager of Pakistani descent who pleads for their help after she learns that her radical Muslim brother has persuaded their parents to take her back to Pakistan to be married. Evan has also been assigned to a new task force just as a wave of homicides spreads through...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"The island of Anglesey off the coast of North Wales is the perfect place for an idyllic midsummer painting holiday. Penny Brannigan is enjoying the retreat enormously-- until she discovers the body of a New Zealand journalist on a secluded beach. The death is ruled accidental, but Penny discovers a link to a mysterious disappearance several years earlier."--Provided by publisher.
3) Evans above
Author
Series
Constable Evans mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Constable Evan Evans was glad to trade city life for idyllic Llanfair, a Welsh Village that time forgot. Butthis little town has its share of eccentric characters.
6) Good people
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Detective Sergeant Glyn Capaldi, fallen from grace and exiled from Cardiff to the Welsh countryside, does his best to serve as the catchall detective in the big bit in the middle that God gave to the sheep. It's a place where nothing of any significance is meant to happen, a place where his superiors believe he can do little harm. But trouble has a way of catching up with Capaldi. Six men and a young woman disappear after a night of rugby and drink....
Author
Series
Fiona Griffiths mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Investigating the discovery of human remains that have been frozen for a decade, DI Fiona Griffiths learns that the victim was a missing student with possible connections to Griffiths' father, a case that is further complicated by a recent murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day, and turns up dead. The last person believed to have seen her is manicurist Penny Brannigan, an expatriate Canadian who has lived in North Wales for almost twenty-five years. When Penny notices that something is not quite right at the funeral of her dearest...
9) All unwary
Author
Series
Thames Valley mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A Japanese businessman is murdered in an industrial town in England and the daughter of another Japanese man disappears. Police officer Mike Yeadings suspects xenophobia is at the heart of both cases. By the author of Close Quarters.
Author
Series
Fiona Griffiths mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
Rookie cop Fiona Griffiths, on the cusp of breaking her first big case, uncovers a dire conspiracy that takes her into a dark underworld that threatens her with her own personal demons.
11) A fatal lie
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Series
Language
English
Description
A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified boy stumbles on a body in a nearby river. The man appears to have fallen from the canal aqueduct spanning the valley. But there is no identification on the body, he isn’t a local, and no one will admit to having seen him before. With little to go on, the village police turn to Scotland Yard for help. When Inspector Ian Rutledge is sent from London to find answers, he is given few clues—a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"The fifth in this enchanting Welsh series which has been likened to the work of Dorothy Cannell and M. C. Beaton Spa owner and habitual amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan finds herself at a clerical conference at Gladstone's Library in North Wales. Also attending as a guest speaker is her boyfriend, DCI Gareth Davies, there to give a talk on theft prevention. But behind the ornate red sandstone façade of this most respectable of Victorian buildings,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The competition is friendly and just a little fierce at the annual Llanelen agricultural show as town and country folk gather for the outdoor judging of farm animals and indoor judging of cakes, pies, pastries, chutneys, jams and jellies, along with vegetables, fruit and flowers. But this year, there's a new show category: murder.
The competition is friendly and just a little fierce at the annual Llanelen agricultural show. Town and country folk...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"It's Christmastime in Caerphilly and Meg Langslow, full of holiday spirit, is helping out with the town's nativity pageant when she finds a surprise in the manger: a live baby. A note says that it's time for her father to take care of her -- and implicates Meg's brother as the father."--Provided by publisher.
It's Christmastime in Caerphilly. Meg is directing the town's nativity pageant when she finds a surprise in the manger: a live baby. A note...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When more than one hundred members of The Ark, a mysterious and sinister apocalypse cult, are found dead by poison at their isolated community in North Wales, those left alive are scattered to the winds with few coping skills and fewer answers. For twenty-one-year-old Romy, who has never known life outside the compound, learning how to live in a world she has been taught to fear is terrifying. Now Romy must start a new life for herself--and the child...
16) Dead people
Author
Series
Glyn Capaldi mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books, a Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2014, ©2013.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Sergeant Glyn Capaldi, in disgrace and exiled from Cardiff to the deep heart of rural Wales, is called to the discovery of a human skeleton at a remote site in the hills during excavation work for a new wind farm. The body is missing its head and hands, making it unidentifiable. When other bodies are uncovered, Capaldi's superiors assume that it is either the work of a hit squad or a serial killer, and that the site is just a dumping ground....
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"The residents of Llanelen are brimming with excitement. Antiques Cymru, a regional take on the popular national TV show, is coming to the Welsh town and people are flocking from miles around, hoping their attic treasures turn out to be worth a fortune. On the day of filming, quiet local sheep farmer Haydn Williams brings a generations-old long-case clock for evaluation, while the woman he's always admired from afar, Catrin Bellis, turns up with a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Local artist and amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan has been spending her summer painting the exterior and views of the once-lovely Gwrych Castle, now in a heartbreaking state of disrepair. A privately owned castellated country house of jaw dropping scale, the gorgeous house located just outside of Penny's picturesque Welsh town has been sadly neglected for decades. Penny is thrilled when she hears local Mark Baker is leading a team of enthusiastic volunteers...
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