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Dorothy Simpson
Full Series List in Order
An Inspector Luke Thanet Novel
1 - The Night She Died (May-1981)2 - Six Feet Under (Sep-1982)
3 - Puppet for a Corpse (May-1983)
4 - Close Her Eyes (Nov-1984)
5 - Last Seen Alive (Oct-1985)
6 - Dead on Arrival (Jan-1987)
7 - Element of Doubt (Feb-1988)
8 - Suspicious Death (Dec-1988)
9 - Dead by Morning (Aug-1989)
10 - Doomed to Die (Nov-1991)
11 - Wake the Dead (Nov-1992)
12 - No Laughing Matter (Nov-1993)
13 - A Day for Dying (1995)
14 - Once Too Often (Mar-1998)
15 - Dead and Gone (Nov-1999)
Book List in Order: 19 titles
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The Night She Died
- May-1981
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She was young, lovely--and quite dead. Her name was Julie Holmes and to the residents of quiet, treelined Gladstone Road where she had lived for only six weeks, she was quite unknown. But someone must have known her just a little...known her well en...
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Six Feet Under
- Sep-1982
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An English village is shaken by murder in this police procedural from the “dependably pleasing” author of The Night She Died (The Boston Globe). Det. Inspector Luke Thanet may be the only happy cop in England. He has two healthy children, a wond...
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Puppet for a Corpse
- May-1983
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DEATH OF A DOCTOR Doctors are supposed to save lives, not take them. But Dr. Arnold Pettifer has killed himself. He arranged to do him-self in on a day when the house would be empty--his wife in London, his housekeeper visiting her sister, his son i...
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Close Her Eyes
- Nov-1984
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LOST WEEKEND Fifteen-year-old Charity Pritchard's conservative, fanatically religious family forbids her to date, wear makeup or jeans, or travel anywhere alone. So it is a great shock when Charity does go somewhere alone -- and stays missing fo...
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Last Seen Alive
- Oct-1985
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Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger: A troubled woman returns to her peaceful English village after twenty years -- and is murdered within twenty-four hours. When Det. Inspector Luke Thanet was a young man, Alicia Parnell was one of the most popular girl...
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Dead on Arrival
- Jan-1987
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A British detective must find the killer of a much-despised villager in this mystery from “a modern-day version of Agatha Christie” (Booklist). Det. Inspector Luke Thanet is brought in when a dead man is found in bed, apparently killed by a singl...
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Element of Doubt
- Feb-1988
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There’s no shortage of suspects when a body turns up in a charming English village in this mystery starring mild-mannered Detective Inspector Thanet. Det. Inspector Luke Thanet is pulling into his driveway, anticipating a long, lazy evening at home...
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Suspicious Death
- Dec-1988
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When a successful business woman is found drowned in the local river, the police are called in. There is no clear evidence that the woman was murdered, but to Inspector Thanet this is definitely a suspicious death. A lot of people had the motive to k...
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Dead by Morning
- Aug-1989
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A FROZEN STIFF In life he was Leo Martindale, the dissolute son of one of rustic Sutton-in-the-Weald's most genteel first families. Now he is a snow-covered corpse lying outside the seventeenth-century ancestral home he'd fled nearly twenty-fire y...
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Doomed to Die
- Nov-1991
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Detective Inspector Thanet uncovers the shocking secrets that led to an artist’s murder in this captivating entry in the award-winning British mystery series. When a woman is found with a bloody gash on her scalp and a plastic bag over her head, th...
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Wake the Dead
- Nov-1992
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A quaint English village’s summer gala is interrupted by murder in this award-winning mystery series starring the mild-mannered Detective Inspector Thanet. The Thaxden Fête is one of the highlights of the Sturrenden social calendar, and this year ...
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No Laughing Matter
- Nov-1993
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A country vineyard is tainted by murder in this “absorbing” English police procedural starring Detective Inspector Thanet (Publishers Weekly). Sturrenden Vineyard is a few miles west of town, a lovely piece of land where tourists come to sip wine...
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Island in the Bay
- Dec-1993
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Island in the Bay is the story of a boy's adventure on an isolated island off the coast of Maine. It is set in a community of lobstermen whose life and work the author knows well, having grown up in Criehaven, off the Maine coast. The environment of ...
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A Day for Dying
- 1995
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The thirteenth novel in the British mystery series featuring Inspector Luke Thanet from the Silver Dagger award-winning author Dorothy Simpson, “a modern-day version of Agatha Christie” (Booklist).When playboy Max Jeopard is killed at his own eng...
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Second Inspector Thanet
- Jun-1995
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CLOSE HER EYES: When Charity Pritchard goes missing Inspector Thanet's concern deepens when the first thought of her strictly relgious family is to leave the matter in God's hands. Of course, no detective can put much faith in appearance, but it is o...
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Once Too Often
- Mar-1998
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In the fourteenth novel in the British mystery series from the Silver Dagger award-winning author Dorothy Simpson, “a modern-day version of Agatha Christie” (Booklist), Inspector Luke Thanet has a both murder and a wedding on his hands.Newspaper ...
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The Fourth Inspector Thanet Omnibus
- Oct-1999
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DOOMED TO DIE...Perdita, a solitary and beautiful artist, is found murdered in the home of a prominent local barrister. Finding release only in her art, she has been deeply unhappy in her marriage. But she seems doomed to die young and when she event...
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Dead and Gone
- Nov-1999
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Serious crime isn't suposed to happen in elegant English country homes, especially not in such families as that of Queen's counsel Ralph Mintar, a prominent barrister who's destined to become a high-court judge. So it's particularly shocking when ...
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