Anabel Donald

Alex Tanner

1 - An Uncommon Murder (Jan-1993)
2 - In at the Deep End (Sep-1994)
3 - The Glass Ceiling (Sep-1995)
4 - The Loop (1996)
5 - Destroy Unopened (1999)

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  Smile, Honey
  

  • Dec-1990
  • / Literary
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  A down-and-out former child star aspires to independence and parenthood in this comedy of manners. ``Sporting sharp-witted dialogue appropriate to its cast of vivid characters, this effortlessly readable novel is replete with acute social perception ...

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  An Uncommon Murder
  

  • Jan-1993
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Alex Tanner - 1
  

  'I'm twenty-eight. I'm a freelance TV researcher. And last November I investigated my first murder . . .' Alex Tanner is always on the lookout for work - mortgages on flats in Notting Hill do not come cheap, after all. So when TV producer Barty O'Nei...

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  In at the Deep End
  

  • Sep-1994
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Alex Tanner - 2
  

  'What kind of person are you, Alex Tanner? How would you describe yourself?' 'Curious,' I said. 'I'd call myself curious. I like to find things out.' It's often proved my downfall . . . In her childhood Alex dreamt of being a private eye. Actually sh...

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  The Glass Ceiling
  

  • Sep-1995
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Alex Tanner - 3
  

  Alex Tanner, TV researcher and private investigator, is more than a little curious when she receives a parcel from someone calling herself 'Mrs X'. Inside the package are £200, a list of four famous feminists and a grisly surprise. All this plus the...

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  The Loop
  

  • 1996
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Alex Tanner - 4
  

  'Is that Alex Tanner, private investigator?' It was a female voice. British. 'Yes.' 'I'm a friend of Polly's. She said you'd help me.' 'To do what?' 'To find the love of my life.' Alex Tanner, TV researcher and occasional PI, jumps at the chance of a...

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  Destroy Unopened
  

  • 1999
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Alex Tanner - 5
  

  'Alex, if you had a son who told you that he liked his new flat because it was built on the site of 10 Rillington Place, what would you think?' 'Hillary, I wish you'd get to the point,' I said as gently as I could manage. She was ruffled but not dist...

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  Be Nice
  

  • Jan-2002
  • / General Fiction
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  Twenty-one teenage girls stranded on a desert island – a brilliant reworking of Lord of the Flies.A plane crashes on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. On it are thirty English girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen, winners of ...

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