Robert Barnard
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Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 2
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English
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A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty, and when a grown nephew returns to the village twenty years later, he sees that his aunt has come full circle.
Author
Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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A disliked innkeeper is murdered during the Ketterick Arts Festival.
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Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 4
Language
English
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In England, a Bosnian refugee befriends a vicar's wife, who finds him work. Soon after a member of the church is murdered and the Bosnian disappears. A tale of immigrant smuggling which detectives Oddie and Peace try to unravel.
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Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Death returns to a Yorkshire village when a museum opens on the site of an unexplained murder/suicide where a renowned author killed his sister with an ax and shot himself.
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English
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An exquisitely written mystery about a man who discovers he had been abducted as a baby. The young man who has known himself only as Kit sets out to rediscover his past, the story of two three-year-old boys torn from their mothers in very different circumstances. Kit's probing inquiries bring surprises--and also unearth dangerous secrets.
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Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 5
Language
English
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In Leeds, England, a Pakistani girl flees to a homeless center for youths to avoid an arranged marriage, but the family comes after her and blood flows. The black policeman, Charlie Peace, investigates.
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Language
English
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A small boy, evacuated from London during the blitz, is taken in by a loving couple who treat him like their own, and who raise him to adulthood. When he returns to London as a man, he feels the need to find his original family. He uncovers a thoroughly detestable family that he knows he was part of, but he has to find out where exactly he fit in. He uncovers an old murder that he actually witnessed as a small boy.
Author
Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
"Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer, dissects family bonds at their best and worst in this stunning novel of suspense. What an honor--to become trustee of an English stately home museum. Yorkshire Detective Inspector Charlie Peace's wife, Felicity, is initially thrilled when she's asked to join the board that oversees Walbrook Manor, an eighteenth-century mansion that's now part of a charitable trust....