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Lesley Thomson
Full Series List in Order
Detective's Daughter
0.5 - The Runaway (Jul-2015)1 - The Detective's Daughter (Sep-2015)
2 - Ghost Girl (Apr-2014)
3 - The Detective's Secret (Sep-2015)
4 - The Detective's Shadow (Jul-2016)
5 - The House with No Rooms (Jan-2017)
6 - The Death Chamber (Jun-2018)
7 - The Playground Murders (Jun-2019)
8 - The Distant Dead (Dec-2021)
9 - The Mystery of Yew Tree House (Sep-2023)
Book List in Order: 15 titles
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A Kind of Vanishing
- Mar-2011
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From the author of acclaimed thriller 'The Detective's Daughter' A spellbinding mystery of obsession and guilt, this is also the poignant story of what happens to those left behind when a child vanishes without trace. It is the summer of 1968, the da...
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Ghost Girl
- Apr-2014
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER.
Seven cryptic photographs. A decades-old case. Can one woman find a killer?
Before his death, Terry Darnell was a famous detective. His daughter Stella, a cleaner, has... -
The Runaway
- Jul-2015
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An exclusive short story from the bestselling author of The Detective's Daughter.
Stella Darnell understands that her mum and dad don't want to live together anymore. But she wishes she didn't have to say goodbye to her bedroom... -
The Detective's Daughter
- Sep-2015
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As winter closes its grip on snow-bound London, a cleaner determines to solve the case that her detective father never could. A Kindle number one bestseller.
It was the murder that shocked the nation. Kate Rokesmith, a young mother, walked... -
The Detective's Secret
- Sep-2015
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They will learn the city's secrets. They will learn who plans to kill...
A man has jumped in front of a late night train. Stella Darnell, a cleaner who solves crimes, suspects it's murder. Now she's stirring up the past with qu... -
The Detective's Shadow
- Jul-2016
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The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living memory. In the Botanical Gardens at Kew, a lost little girl stumbled upon a deserted gallery. Dizzied by the heat, she thought she saw a woman lying dead on the ground. But when she opened her eyes, the wo...
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The House with No Rooms
- Jan-2017
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A woman lies dead on the ground. A girl watches from the shadows. What did she really see?
The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living memory. A lost little girl, dizzied by the head, stumbled upon a deserted museum. She thought she saw a... -
The Dog Walker
- Apr-2017
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Brand new from the #1 bestselling author of The Detective's Daughter.
Stella and Jack must reawaken the secrets of the past in order to solve the mysteries of the present.
January, 1987. In the depths of winter, only joggers... -
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The Death Chamber
- Jun-2018
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From the number one bestseller of The Detective's Daughter.
For forty years, someone has got away with murder...
Forty years ago, seventeen-year-old Cassie Baker took a shortcut home from a small Cotswolds village, and was never s... -
The Playground Murders
- Jun-2019
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'A class above' IAN RANKIN.
Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children's lives were changed for ever.
The case of six-year-old Sarah Ferris, killed in an empty playground, haunted Hammersmith police for d... -
Death of a Mermaid
- May-2020
- / Thriller
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'Lesley Thomson gets better and better' Ian Rankin
When Freddy Power was eighteen, her father threw her out. Her sin had been to fall in love with a woman. Freddy waited for two decades to be invited back into the family. The summons nev... -
The Distant Dead
- Dec-2021
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A woman lies dead in a bombed-out house. A tragic casualty of the Blitz? Or something more sinister? Sixty years later, the detective's daughter unearths the truth... From the number 1 bestselling author of The Detective's Daughter.LONDON, 1940Severa...
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The Mystery of Yew Tree House
- Sep-2023
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
'Lesley Thomson at her considerable best - you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll never guess.' ELLY GRIFFITHS
'Always a treat reading Lesley Thomson.' IAN RANKIN
EIGHTY Y...