Frances Brody

A beautiful tale of two sisters in wartime Leeds, from the bestselling author of the Kate Shackleton mysteries

The seventh fantastically quirky crime novel featuring amateur sleuth extraordinaire Kate Shackleton.

The sixth fantastically quirky crime novel featuring amateur sleuth extraordinaire Kate Shackleton!

Kate Shackleton joins Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs... They make excellent heroines. --Literary Review Frances Brody's refreshingly complex heroine (Kirkus Reviews), picks up a case that takes her to the refined streets of 1920s Harrogate in A Medal for Murder A pawn-shop robbery It's no rest for the wicked as Kate Shackleton picks up her second professional sleuthing case. But exposing the culprit of a pawn-shop robbery turns sinister when her investigation takes her to Harrogate in Yorkshire, England - and murder is only one step behind ... A fatal stabbing A night at the theatre should have been just what the doctor ordered, until Kate stumbles across a body in the doorway. The knife sticking out of its chest definitely suggests a killer in the theatre's midst. A ransom demand Kate likes nothing better than a mystery - and nothing better than solving them. So when a ransom note demands 1,000 for the safe return of the play's leading lady, the refined streets of Harrogate play host to Kate's skills in piecing together clues - and luring criminals out of their lairs...

The fifth fantastically quirky crime novel featuring amateur sleuth extraordinaire Kate Shackleton.

The fourth fantastically quirky crime novel featuring amateur sleuth extraordinaire Kate Shackleton

"Reminiscent of Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie with a thoroughly likeable protagonist and a plot that held me to the end." --Mignon F. Ballard, author of the Miss Dimple Kilpatrick Mystery Series " Dying in the Wool] introduces a refreshingly complex heroine and adds a fine feeling for the postwar period." --Kirkus Reviews Take one quiet Yorkshire village Bridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens... Add a measure of mystery Until the day that Master of the Mill Joshua Braithwaite goes missing in dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again. A sprinkling of scandal Now Joshua's daughter is getting married and wants one last attempt at finding her father. Has he run off with his mistress, or was he murdered for his mounting coffers? And Kate Shackleton--amateur sleuth extraordinaire Kate Shackleton has always loved solving puzzles. So who better to get to the bottom of Joshua's mysterious disappearance in this charming traditional mystery by Frances Brody? But as Kate taps into the lives of the Bridgestead dwellers, she opens cracks that some would kill to keep closed...

The third fantastically quirky crime novel set in 1920s Yorkshire and starring amateur sleuth Kate Shackleton.

The second novel in the bestselling cosy crime series featuring amateur sleuth Kate Shackleton.

A quiet Yorkshire village is shaken by a scandalous secret . . . This is quirky historical crime fiction with a wonderfully whimsical female narrator