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Get ready for an epic adventure full of unexpected twists and turns! Follow the journey of two brave middle-aged Brits who abandon their comfortable life in the UK and take on the challenge of restoring a charmingly dilapidated French property. But this isn't your typical renovation project - it takes place during the height of the worst financial crisis in modern history, making the obstacles seem insurmountable. From dealing with troublesome builders to navigating the complex legal system, and from coping with stubborn relatives to contending with an uncooperative housing market back home...

« Un roman policier divertissant et malicieux » SIMON BRETT Le sixième volet de The Falconer Files, la série policière villageoise incroyablement captivante d'Andrea Frazer avec une délicieuse touche d'humour. Parfait pour les fans d'Agatha Christie, de Lillian Jackson Braun et de Midsomer Murders. Les trois derniers directeurs musicaux des Dalziels les avaient abandonnés en s'installant en France. Leur prochain choix fut de faire le « coup ultime » en se faisant assassiner ! L'orchestre du village de Swinbury Abbot a fait du jogging tranquillement pendant près d'une décennie. ...

The Falconer Files Brief Cases follows DI Harry Falconer and DS Carmichael solving murders in and around Market Darley. Each story presents a unique murder mystery with a seasonal or thematic twist.

In the village of Castle Farthing a mean-spirited, spiteful, curmudgeonly old man is found drugged and strangled in the kitchen of his cottage, with no obvious clues to the perpetrator of the crime. DI Falconer and Acting DS Carmichael are summoned from the police headquarters in the nearby town of Market Darley and begin to uncover a web of grudges against the old man and a sea of familial connections between those who knew him.

El pueblo ha inaugurado recientemente su nuevo teatro y el Gremio de Mujeres del pueblo presentará su primera función en vivo, la pantomima "Jack y las habichuelas mágicas", durante la Navidad. El inspector Harry Falconer ha logrado eludir dos días festivos en casa de los Carmichael alegando otros compromisos, pero invitando a toda la familia, incluido él mismo, a comprar entradas para la primera función, el día de San Esteban. Pero parece no poder hacer nada directamente, y cuando la tragedia golpea en el primer acto, se ve catapultado de nuevo a su rol profesional con una venganza:...

El primer libro de la serie Casos Breves de Falconer, protagonizado por el inspector Harry Falconer y el sargento Davy Carmichael. El día de Navidad, los dos detectives son convocados a un bloque de apartamentos en Market Darley para investigar la muerte inexplicable de una joven cuyo prometido debía mudarse con ella el día de Año Nuevo. Al principio, su muerte parece un completo misterio; luego, algo que el Dr. Christmas descubre en internet indica que podría haber sido un trágico accidente, ¿o no?

When Marcus Willoughby is found dead at his desk in his new home, no crocodile tears are shed. His demise is even presented on air, during his pre-recorded radio show Marcus having been 'choked off' for good while in full flow. His arrival in the village had obviously caused a few already guilty hearts to beat faster, and precipitates the hasty confessions of dark deeds thought long since buried.

Sebastian Snail is a very bored snail, and has always wanted to be famous. At Halloween, after throwing a big party for all his friends and neighbours, he decides to go ghost hunting with his best friend, Caruthers Caterpillar. At dead-of-night, they set off into the dark, in search of witches and ghosts, and things that go bump in the night! And they're headed for Halloween House - a house that is said to he haunted.....!

Follow the exploits of the eccentric Lady Amanda Golightly and her loyal friend Hugo as they stumble upon murder and mayhem whilst navigating English country life. In Strangeways to Oldham, Amanda discovers a long-lost friend in a nursing home and promptly falls into a murder mystery. Refusing to be seen as a "silly old biddy," Amanda and Hugo dust off their sleuthing skills to outwit the police.

It's nearly Christmas in Belchester and the carol singers are out in full swing. So too are the thieves! A spate of burglaries is under way and the police are baffled. When Belchester Towers becomes a target, Lady Amanda Golightly is determined to get to the bottom of it all. None of the usual criminal types in the city seem to be involved, but after a bit of lateral thinking and old chum Hugo's help, Lady Amanda is off, sniffing after a totally unsuspected scent ...

Abigail Wentworth is looking forward to her reunion lunch with Alison Fairweather. They are old schoolfriends who met twice a year, usually for Alison to dish the dirt on the others they had known when they were younger—and for Abigail to gloat over their 'inferior' circumstances, in comparison to her own respectable existence.

The body of a woman has been discovered in Castle Farthing Woods, and it appears that although she had been dead for years, nobody had ever reported her missing. DI Harry Falconer of the Market Darley police is perplexed - and not only in his working life. He has recently resumed his relationship with psychologist Dr. Honey Dubois - but while visiting a local village in the course of his investigations, unsettling memories of a former love are revived.

Lady Amanda Golightly of Belchester Towers is a person in complete contrast to the stereotypical image of one of her breeding. She is short, portly, and embarrassingly forthright. If she wasn't calling a spade a shovel, it was only because she was calling it 'trumps'! On a visit to a local nursing home where an old business partner of her father's is residing, she unexpectedly discovers a long-lost friend, Hugo Cholmondley-Crichton-Crump—and stumbles upon murder as well.

From the author of the Falconer Files and the Belchester Chronicles. A thought provoking Christmas short story. Christmas Eve has arrived and the whole world, it seems, is intent on doing the very last of the last-minute Christmas shopping. In some, the day brings out unexpected acts of kindness, where others are left unmoved. This story views the day through the eyes of a 'gentleman of the road', shuffling his way from an early morning rude awakening to a magical end as the day draws to a close.

Cringe with embarrassment, as Lady Amanda Golightly acts like a bad-tempered five-year-old in the face of a family crisis. Cheer her on, as she and her live-in friend at Belchester Towers, Hugo Cholmondley-Crichton Crump, plan a new business venture for the old place. Join them for Christmas, then wish them luck as they embark on a trial run of their new enterprise. Then gasp at Lady Amanda's reaction (delight!) at the discovery of the body of a dead guest, found slumped on the library table, murdered FIVE TIMES!

In the quiet village of Steynham St Michael there is an anonymous letter writer at work, jabbing and stabbing at the past's Achilles' heels of many of the upright citizens living there. After one resident is driven to extreme measures to escape exposure, another is driven to murder. In the village cards club, which meets once a week, tongues begin to wag, not only about the identities of the murderer and the poison pen letter-writer, but also about who exactly has received a letter.

On Christmas Day DI Harry Falconer and DS Davy Carmichael are summoned to a block of apartments in Market Darley, to investigate the unexplained death of a young woman whose fiancé was due to move in with her on New Year's Day.

DI Falconer becomes involved in a gossip-fueled hate crime, only to find himself questioning his own judgement when it comes to protecting Miriam Darling from her anonymous persecutors...

DI Falconer and DS Carmichael are both enjoying a well-earned rest day, when they are summoned to a most distressing incident that has occurred at a chip shop on the parade of shops in Upper Darley. It was obviously murder, but was it something to do with the robust behaviour of some of the more aggressive customers from the night before or was it closer to home?

A regional television programme, Get One Over, where amateurs search for and discover antiques and valuable objects in junk shops, has captured the nation’s zeitgeist and gone nationwide. The Christmas episode is to be filmed in Market Darley, and being antiques fans, Miss Emily Jarvis, and DI Falconer and DS Carmichael plan to be in town to bump into the stars of the programme. Carmichael loves the programme for its jokey narrator, but Falconer, along with a host of other viewers, hates the man’s rude and condescending commentary.