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Patricia Hall
Full Series List in Order
A Kate O'Donnell Mystery
1 - Dead Beat (Sep-2011)2 - Death Trap (Jul-2012)
3 - Dressed to Kill (Sep-2013)
4 - Blood Brothers (Jun-2014)
5 - Deep Waters (Jul-2016)
6 - Cover Up (Jun-2017)
7 - Playing with Fire (Dec-2018)
Laura Ackroyd & Michael Thackery
1 - Death by Election (1993)2 - Dying Fall (1994)
3 - The Dead of Winter (1995)
4 - Perils of the Night (1997)
5 - The Italian Girl (1998)
6 - Dead on Arrival (Apr-2001)
7 - Skeleton at the Feast (Jan-2002)
8 - Deep Freeze (Jan-2003)
9 - Death in Dark Waters (Feb-2004)
10 - Dead Reckoning (Apr-2005)
11 - Sins of the Fathers (Sep-2007)
12 - False Witness (Sep-2007)
13 - By Death Divided (Aug-2008)
14 - Devil's Game (Feb-2009)
15 - Death in a Far Country (Jul-2009)
A Yorkshire Mystery
The Poison Pool (Nov-1993)Book List in Order: 26 titles
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Death by Election
- 1993
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Yorkshire reporter Laura Ackroyd finds some unsettling connections between a local election, a campaign to "out" elected officials, and a murder on the moor, which leads to her being noticed by both Inspector Michael Thakeray and the murderer....
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The Poison Pool
- Nov-1993
- / Mystery
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CLOSED RANKS When old Tom Carter is found bludgeoned to death, Inspector Alex Sinclair makes quick work of arresting the only suspect, Joey Macready, a young man living with his mother. Social worker Kate Weston is convinced that Joey is innoce...
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Dying Fall
- 1994
- / Law Enforcement
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An oppressive heat wave has blanketed Bradfield, Yorkshire, sharpening tensions in the crime-ridden council estate known as the Heights. The latest grievance is the nightly joy-riding of youths racing stolen cars around the residential streets. Next,...
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The Dead of Winter
- 1995
- / Police Procedural
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When the body of realtor Linda Wright is discovered in her car and suspicion falls on her vanished escort and coworker, Jimmy Townsend, Inspector Michael Thackery must sort through mortgage scams, farm sales, and development plans to solve the case...
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Perils of the Night
- 1997
- / Law Enforcement
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The latest Yorkshire mystery for reporter Laura Ackroyd and Chief Inspector Michael Thackeray starts when Laura goes undercover seeking information about prostitution and gets herself arrested, just as Michael begins investigating a prostitute's horr...
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Dead on Arrival
- Apr-2001
- / Police Procedural
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After witnessing a brutal murder in London's Docklands, reporter Laura Ackroyd and DCI Michael Thackeray become embroiled in the poverty, racism, and violence of the city's underworld as they confront the individuals who have good reasons for coverin...
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Skeleton at the Feast
- Jan-2002
- / Police Procedural
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With an inquiry into the death of one of his officers hanging over his head back in Yorkshire and his career in limbo, DCI Michael Thackeray sets off for his alma mater, Oxford College, for a summer course, all the while brooding on his newly uncerta...
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Message for Santa
- Oct-2002
- / General Fiction
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Oh, no! Marcella forgot to send her wish list to Santa. The Raggedys come to the rescue! But will they find Santa in time to deliver Marcella's list? Play along with the reusable stickers in this book,and create your own Raggedy adventures!...
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Deep Freeze
- Jan-2003
- / Police Procedural
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Yorkshire newspaper reporter Laura Ackroyd and DCI Michael Thackeray are finally trying their hand at living together after years of carrying on a tumultuous affair. Though they care deeply for one another, each seems to constantly have one foot out ...
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Death in Dark Waters
- Feb-2004
- / Police Procedural
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The Carib Club is one of Bradfield's most popular night clubs, especially in the local black community-but it's in the heart of a Muslim district. Members of the local mosque are keen to get the club closed down, so when, after a night out clubbing, ...
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Dead Reckoning
- Apr-2005
- / Police Procedural
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Earnshaw's Mill, one of last remaining foundations of Bradfield's industrial heritage, harkening back to Yorkshire's glorious past, has seen better days. As the times have changed, the future of the Earnshaw mill has become even more uncertain. With ...
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False Witness
- Sep-2007
- / Law Enforcement
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A teacher is bludgeoned to death and a volatile black teenager is arrested: as far as DCI Michael Thackeray is concerned, that's it, case closed. Though absent at the time of the murder and subsequent arrest, Thackeray is convinced that it was an ope...
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The Masks of Darkness
- Sep-2007
- / Suspense
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Donna has been running away from the horror of her childhood at Pendle House when it was a children's home, all her life. Now, twenty years later, she is ready to return and face those old demons, but arriving in Pendle Bridge she is afraid. Menacing...
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Sins of the Fathers
- Sep-2007
- / Law Enforcement
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Stepping over the threshold of a once-happy family home turned charnel house, DCI Michael Thackeray knows he'll be faced with a grim sight. After all his years in the force, he's come to realise that you can never truly become inured to the sight of ...
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By Death Divided
- Aug-2008
- / Law Enforcement
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Laura Ackroyd, the journalist girlfriend of DCI Michael Thackerary, becomes drawn into the plight of Jenny Holden and her daughter Anna when she writes an article about domestic abuse. Suffering violence at the hands of her husband, Jenny takes fligh...
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Devil's Game
- Feb-2009
- / Police Procedural
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Journalist Laura Ackroyd has a lot on her plate. Having recently discovered she is pregnant, she must now gather her courage to tell her partner, DCI Michael Thackeray. So she could have done without the task of profiling Sir David Murgatroyd, the we...
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Death in a Far Country
- Jul-2009
- / Law Enforcement
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The dark of the night. Two girls are running for their lives. Terrified, one falls, and unable to get up, she forces her friend to go on without her, to save herself. For her there is no escape as their attackers close in…The following morning the ...
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Death Trap
- Jul-2012
- / Historical Mystery
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Kate O’Donnell, fresh from her adventures in Dead Beat, discovers yet again there’s a darker side to London in the Swinging Sixties. Beatlemania has reached London, but young photographer Kate O’Donnell soon discovers a darker side of the c...
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Dressed to Kill
- Sep-2013
- / Historical Mystery
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It's 1963. A new band called the Rolling Stones is beginning to make its mark and the mini-skirt is coming into fashion. For young Liverpudlian photographer Kate O'Donnell, it's an exciting time to be in the capital - especially as she's on secondmen...
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Blood Brothers
- Jun-2014
- / Historical Mystery
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1963. A badly mutilated corpse is discovered on the site of the new Centre Point Tower currently under construction in London’s West End. With fingers and toes severed, it has all the hallmarks of a gangland killing. But Detective Sergeant Harry Ba...
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Deep Waters
- Jul-2016
- / Historical Mystery
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A past crime causes new murder in the latest intriguing Kate O’Donnell mystery 1964. Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard has been ordered to track down notorious Soho club owner Ray Robertson, who hasn’t been seen for several days. The case takes...
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Playing with Fire
- Dec-2018
- / Historical Mystery
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The death of a young girl leads Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard and Kate O’Donnell into a hotbed of simmering tensions, violence and threats in sixties’ Soho. London, 1964. At three a.m. on a chilly autumn morning, Detective Sergeant Harry B...
