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Anthea Fraser
Full Series List in Order
David "Spider" Webb
1 - A Shroud for Delilah (1984)2 - A Necessary End (1985)
3 - Pretty Maids All in a Row (1986)
4 - Death Speaks Softly (Aug-1987)
5 - The Nine Bright Shiners (1987)
6 - Six Proud Walkers (Jan-1989)
7 - The April Rainers (Apr-1990)
8 - Symbols at Your Door (Apr-1991)
9 - The Lilly-White Boys (1991)
10 - Three, Three, the Rivals (1992)
11 - The Gospel Makers (1994)
12 - The Seven Stars (1995)
13 - I'll Sing You Two-O (Dec-1996)
14 - One Is One And All Alone (1996)
15 - The Ten Commandments (1997)
16 - Eleven That Went Up to Heaven (1999)
17 - The Twelve Apostles (Mar-2000)
A Rona Parish Mystery
1 - Brought to Book (May-2003)2 - Jigsaw (May-2004)
3 - Person Or Persons Unknown (May-2005)
4 - Family Concern (Feb-2007)
5 - Rogue in Porcelain (Apr-2007)
6 - Next Door to Murder (May-2008)
7 - Unfinished Portrait (May-2010)
8 - A Question of Identity (Aug-2012)
9 - Justice Postponed (Nov-2014)
10 - Retribution (Mar-2017)
Book List in Order: 50 titles
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Island-In-Waiting
- 1979
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Chloe, recently back from France and cooking school, visits her brother and his new wife on the Isle of Man, and finds she's having difficulty calling her mind her own. Something's calling Chloe, sending her messages, and she's also receiving visions...
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Whistler's Lane
- Aug-1979
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Destined to Love… When Sophie left her arrogant, willful lover, Jake Petersen, to care for her invalid aunt, she realized their romance was finished. But in the charming little village of Pendelmere, Sophie soon forgot her sorrow. For fate had thr...
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A Shroud for Delilah
- 1984
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'A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read' - BooklistKate Romilly left her old life behind when she left her unfaithful husband. Moving to the small town of Broadminster with her young son was a fresh start. Closer to her best friend, with...
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A Necessary End
- 1985
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At a New Year’s Eve party in their hotel in Frecklemarsh, the guests can sense an uneasy tension between their hosts, Oliver and his second wife Nancy Pendrick.Growing resentment in their marriage, caused by Nancy’s independence and commitment to...
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Pretty Maids All in a Row
- 1986
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Actress Jessica Randal has been incapacitated by a broken leg, and both she and her husband of eight weeks, author Matthew Selby, think they will have a month of tranquility and convalescence when they rent Hinckley cottage near the rustic English vi...
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Six Proud Walkers
- Jan-1989
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The Walkers, this book relates were a proud close-knit family. They owned the local porcelain works and dominated the village. Then murder shattered their unity as though it was their own porcelain and they themselves were fakes. The author has also ...
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Three, Three, the Rivals
- 1992
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What exactly had Sheila Fairchild seen in the middle of the night forty years ago, and what bearing could it possibly have on a recent murder?This is only one of the problems facing DCI David Webb when, against his will, he is assigned to investigate...
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The Gospel Makers
- 1994
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When the small English village of Middlemarch is invaded by an insidious religious cult called the Revelationists, whose tentacles reach even into the local police department, Inspector Webb searches for a connection between the sect and a murdered w...
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More Women of Mystery
- May-1994
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A diverse collection of stories of drama and suspense from writers such as Antonia Fraser, Ruth Rendell and Sharyn McCrumb. From cops to private eyes to ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations, these stories feature heroines who face da...
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Presence of Mind
- Nov-1994
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Perhaps the key to the mystery was ‘Eternal Spring’, the haunting picture which had begun Lance Tenby’s brilliant career as a painter. The painting which exerted a curious influence over them all…Ann Tenby had always accepted her role as ‘s...
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One Is One And All Alone
- 1996
- / Police Procedural
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A tense and gripping new crime novel from Anthea Fraser featuring the ever-popular DCI Webb Malcolm Bennett, Webb's friend and colleague, has recently remarried, and there is conflict between his grown-up family and his new wife, making for a ten...
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The Ten Commandments
- 1997
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A recent and brutal murder brings the past to life for DCI Webb The discovery of a body in a pub car-park is an unpleasant reminder to DCI Webb that a strikingly similar incident occured some years earlier, and that the killer has still not been ...
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Alternative Reality
- Mar-1997
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Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...
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Dangerous Deception
- May-1998
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In this thrilling mystery, a broken engagement leads a woman to an isolated Welsh hotel -- where she finds peace, healing, and a criminal conspiracy. For Clare Laurie, breaking off her engagement to Philip, left only remorse and feelings of gu...
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Eleven That Went Up to Heaven
- 1999
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When Richard Vine, wealthy businessman and proprietor of Beckworth Grange, organises a publicity event with twenty guests who all share his name, he little imagines that a few hours later nine of them would be dead. A fatal road accident leaves DCI D...
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Brought to Book
- May-2003
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Meet Rona Parish, a talented biographer who has a skill for writing about the past and encountering danger along the way, and her adorable golden retriever, Gus.When Rona Parish is asked to write the biography of an acclaimed thriller writer who dro...
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Person Or Persons Unknown
- May-2005
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Meet Rona Parish, a talented biographer who has a skill for writing about the past and encountering danger along the way, and her adorable golden retriever, Gus.Rona's attempts to uncover the truth about a young woman's birth parents for a new serie...
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Family Concern
- Feb-2007
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A new Rona Parish mysteryJournalist Rona Parish is eager for a fresh challenge. A chance encounter with an old friend, Kate, now married into the Tarlton family, gives her an idea. Rona will research the histories of several long-established family f...
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Rogue in Porcelain
- Apr-2007
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Writing an article on old family businesses, Rona Parish contacts Curzon, local manufacturers of fine bone china, when she learns theyre launching a spectacular new line. Little does she realize that she will directly precipitate a terrible tragedy, ...
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Next Door to Murder
- May-2008
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Meet Rona Parish, a talented biographer who has a skill for writing about the past and encountering danger along the way, and her adorable golden retriever, Gus.Rona's latest project focusing on one of Marsborough's most prominent families lead her ...
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Thicker Than Water
- Jun-2009
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James Markham jilts his fiancée for a woman he appears to know very little about. Callum Firbank has always been evasive about his childhood, and his wife realizes she doesn’t know much about his family. Jill Irving has everything she could wis...
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Unfinished Portrait
- May-2010
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Rona Parish is asked to write a biography of reclusive artist Ellie by her concerned sister. Ellie has seemingly disappeared, and the mystery surrounding her whereabouts has fuelled a new interest in her work. But when Rona discovers that Ellie’s c...
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Shifting Sands
- Oct-2011
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A gripping psychological mystery and a warm, sympathetic exploration of widowhood Anna’s family hope that a South African safari holiday will help her to get over her beloved husband’s death. No one is more surprised than Anna herself when she...
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A Question of Identity
- Aug-2012
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An old school photograph in which someone has been deliberately blacked out marks the start of a new case for Rona Parish. Who was this person and why would someone want to hide his or her identity? Rona sets out to uncover the secret and soon finds ...
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The Lily-White Boys
- Nov-2012
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DCI David Webb’s twelfth case is set into motion by the murder of the twins once known as ‘The Lily-White Boys’. At first, Monica Tovey is annoyed by the van abandoned outside her home. But when its gruesome contents are discovered -- the bodie...
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The Unburied Past
- Jul-2013
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What happened in the Lake District twenty-six years ago that resulted in a family being torn apart? An old tragedy, still unresolved, brings together estranged brother and sister Adam and Kirsty, who try to solve it despite their relatives’ objecti...
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Justice Postponed
- Nov-2014
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A tragic incident from the past threatens to derail Rona Parish’s latest project Biographer Rona Parish has a new project, contributing a series for the local glossy magazine, Chiltern Life, documenting life-changing experiences from those who h...
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A Tangled Thread
- Jan-2016
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Three separate families. Three different tales of loss. But a tangled thread binds them together... Three widely separated households -- one in Scotland, one in the north of England and one in the south -- have known the pain of losing a loved one...
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Retribution
- Mar-2017
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Biographer Rona Parish finds herself embroiled in another mystery when her latest projects take disturbing and unpredictable turns. Biographer Rona Parish is keen to finish her series on successful single mothers for local glossy magazine, Chilte...
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Sins of the Fathers
- Aug-2018
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Three families, separate yet joined by the sins of the fathers; sins that will ultimately lead to tragedy. Mark Richmond’s trip to York takes a surprise detour when he runs into Helena Crawford and ends up accompanying her to her parents’ ruby...
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The Ties That Bind
- Aug-2021
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Are the ties that bind them about to be ripped apart? The Tempest family and friends are gathering for Cassie’s eighteenth birthday party. But as they come together, a series of explosive events will threaten everything they hold dear. Cassie...
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Tendrils of the Past
- Jan-2023
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Some secrets won't let go . . . Is the truth about a devastating family tragedy finally about to be unveiled?"Stellar . . . Fraser is in top form" - Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewTragedy strikes a quiet Dorset town when the bodies of Sarah and Char...
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Breath of Brimstone
Innocent enough -- an inscription in a child's autograph book, a token from her new music teacher, Lucas Todd, that had charmed the six-year-old Lucy. But in Celia, Lucy's mother, it had struck a chill of unease. They had been thirteen at the table t...
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Home Through the Dark
Running away from a failed marriage, Ginnie is forced off the road as she drives away by another car driven by a man in a hurry. As she makes a new life in Westhampton, she begins to suspect that the driver of the car is one of the actors in her thea...
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Laura Possessed
What did she want, this strange spirit who had taken over Laura's mind and body? She saw twisted trees at the bottom of the garden behind her brother's house -- trees that weren't there. A little boy stood at her bedroom door and spoke to her -- a ...
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The Macbeth Prophecy
To the casual holidaymaker, Crowthorpe seemed a pretty Lakeland village, its stone circle just a prehistoric monument like any other. No outward sign proclaimed it the site of ancient rivalry, whose legacy of hatred lingered into the present day. Mat...
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Motive for Murder
When Emily Barton applies for a position as secretary to the moody, mysterious author Matthew Haig, it does not occur to her that she may be putting her life in danger at Touchstone. From the first, she can sense the Cornish house has many secrets...
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Past Shadows
When schoolteacher Annabel Kendal receives her annual invitation to her grandmother's birthday celebrations, she is not keen to attend. For the apparently happy occasion revives long-buried memories of an earlier, fateful holiday . . . Every s...
