The Corfe Castle Murders (Dorset Crime Book 1)

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The Fossil Beach Murders will provide Lesley with her toughest challenges yet, both professional and personal.Additionally, we occasionally include insights into the writing process, thematic elements, or how each book fits into the larger tapestry of the series. She works with detective sergeant Dennis Frampton, detective constable Michael Legg, detective constable Johnny Chiles, and police constables Mullins and Tinna Abbot. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. DCI Lesley Clarke has too many suspects to choose from when a wealthy lawyer and her unidentified companion are found brutally murdered in a Sandbanks mansion.

south of Stanley’s home in Bradford Abbas, and just over 5 miles (8km) from where Stanley’s car had been found abandoned. Just as Lesley feels she is getting closer to answers, she's forced to work on the other side of Dorset after a body is uncovered by a landslide at Lyme Regis's beach.The prisoner was related to Lesleys past in Birmingham and she finds herself teaming up with her old colleagues in Birmingham to solve it. Newly catalogued records from the Poole Borough Archive shed light on a murder case which dragged on for over 40 years and led to the execution of one man and suspicion cast on a number of possible accomplices.

I don’t usually mind a cliff hanger, but maybe this theme has gone on long enough, need a resolution. Lesley has to resolve a murder mystery before a killer strieks again, even as she has to deal with teh politics of a smaller team in which she a less welcome even if bigger fish. Book 9, The Ghost Village Murders – the final instalment in which the mystery of DCI Mackie’s death is solved. There was little love lost between Berryman and Green, with Berryman supposedly jealous of his mother-in-law’s goods.Several murders and unremitting suspense later Leslie's team solved the case with the help of DCI Zoé Finch who took over the Birmingham Team when Leslie was transferred to Dorset. This author, whether a rising star or a seasoned veteran, has crafted the pages that whisk readers away on this series' journey. In January of 1599, widow Mrs Alice Green, her servant Agnes Beard and her two dogs were killed when intruders broke into her home in Poole.

The series might take you on a rollercoaster of emotions or provide a steady companion on lazy Sunday afternoons. The Clifftop Murders is the second instalment in the gripping Dorset Crime series, in which rural Dorset is a whole lot darker than the holiday brochures would have you think. He gets caught in the crossfire between Putin's army and the Wolves, a rogue team of Ukraine partisans. The story gains depth as the new DCI shakes up the team, so each person works with another , varying each day.Lesley runs a tight operation and requires everyone in her team to follow procedures and work with each other. I have interspersed reading this series with reading other authors - J D Kirk, Val McDermid, Ian Rankin Christopher Brookmyre, and the difference in quality of writing and presentation is stark.