Author : Rebecca Tope
Publisher : Cotswold Mysteries
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 2016-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780749021023
Thea Osborne has just lost her beloved father and retreats to housesitting in Lower Slaughter hoping to find peace. But reality soon catches up in the shape of her elder sister, the witness of a horrific killing. The rural serenity descends into a web of suspicions, accusations and confrontations.
Author : Rebecca Tope
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459678651
Once again, there's death on her doorstep - Thea throws herself into house - sitting for Babs and Cedric Angell in Lower Slaughter following her beloved father's death - anything to keep her busy and away from some of her rather difficult relatives. Although it's lonely, she has her spaniel Hepzie for company, and keeping the house in order and looking after the Angells' menagerie of animals does the trick for a short period of time. But when Thea's prickly older sister turns up, after witnessing a horrific killing, the timeless tranquillity of Lower Slaughter vanishes, replaced by the sinister connotations of the town's name.
Author : Rebecca Tope
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0749010355
In the wake of a series of unfortunate experiences in the Cotswolds, Thea Osborne, accompanied by her spaniel Hepzibah, is perhaps over-optimistic about the English summertime and the possibilities of her latest house-sitting assignment in the secluded village of Cranham. Despite the ease with which Thea's new job begins, looking after Harriet Young's reptiles, she soon finds a dark side to the characters she encounters. From the elderly Donny Davis to the enigmatic figure of Edwina, it soon becomes clear Harriet's beloved geckoes are not the only cold-blooded creatures at large in Cranham...
Author : Rebecca Tope
Publisher : Allison and Busby
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Cotswold Hills (England)
ISBN : 9780749083984
'A sly but memorable book, which creeps up on the reader unawares' Yorkshire Post
Author : Rebecca Tope
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0749028645
'As Rebecca Tope tells it, every rural idyll is blighted by underlying menace. Such is her writing skill, I'm inclined to believe her 'Daily MailA handsome, if slightly shabby, stone house in Upper Oddington is home to Umberto Kingley as well as his three dogs and will be Thea Slocombe's latest house-sitting assignment. Without even a local shop, Thea expects the location to be one of her quietest, until the serene atmosphere is shattered with a fatal hit-and-run.The ensuing high-profile police investigation plunges Thea deep into the victim's complicated family dynamics and the rift that had already torn it apart. And she cannot help wondering if the reverberations of scandal have led to a deliberate and murderous assault.
Author : Rebecca Tope
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 074902173X
Thea Slocombe is trying to settle into normal family domestic life with Drew and his two children in Broad Campden. But any sense of cosy domesticity is shattered when Thea finds the body of a neighbour. No longer a house-sitter, Thea has no choice but to stay in the village and deal with whatever happens next, even when this risks damage to her marriage.Unconvinced that the swift conclusion made about the death by the police is the right one, Thea is compelled to follow her nature and investigate herself. But what repercussions might there be for her, Drew and those with whom they share this corner of the Cotswolds?
Author : Rebecca Tope
Publisher : Cotswold Mysteries
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Housesitting
ISBN : 9780749021832
Thea Osbourne has just lost her beloved father and, with her faithful spaniel Hepzie, she retreats to her next house-sitting job, hoping to find peace and quiet to deal with her grief. As she settles down to two weeks of solitude her biggest challenges are jigsaw puzzles, and bats in the bedroom, but when her bossy elder sister arrives on the doorstep having witnessed a horrific killing, the rural serenity in Lower Slaughter is shattered. Investigating a murder while being a responsible house-sitter is no easy task, especially when you've got a dog-killer and a temperamental parrot on your hands.
Author : Rebecca Tope
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0749011076
Thea Osborne, accompanied by her beloved spaniel Hepzie, has had her fair share of unfortunate occurrences while house-sitting, and her new assignment for the mysterious Yvonne Parker is no exception. The isolated and somewhat unsettling village of Snowshill, has Thea on edge as soon as she arrives, and Hyacinth House - her new, rather cluttered home - does nothing to dispel such feelings. Soon enough, her intuition in this case proves to be right, and once again Thea becomes entangled in another horrifying murder. Stevie Horsfall, a mischievous child from the village is found brutally strangled outside Hyacinth House, with his eccentric mother Gudrun as the prime suspect. Believing in Gudrun's innocence, Thea, alongside Sonia Gladwin and her friend Drew Slocombe, work together to uncover a sinister plot, where seemingly separate lives are intertwined with secretive and strange relationships. This malicious web of suspects leads Thea through the lives of the villagers and their secrets, to London and beyond.
Author : Rebecca Tope
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0749023775
Thea and Drew have been married for a year and are settled in the village of Broad Campden, but Thea is chafing at the domestic routines she is expected to devote herself to, missing the novelty and adventure that house-sitting used to bring. When a routine burial exposes the secrets of the deceased, Drew finds himself caught in the middle of a family feud, in which he feels he is on the wrong side, and Thea's inquisitiveness and penchant for solving crimes draws her in too. With another crisis at Drew's other business leaving him with a profound dilemma and Thea struggling against the charismatic charms of a new man, can their marriage survive this latest Cotswold drama?
Author : REBECCA. TOPE
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2011
Category :
ISBN : 9781780480954
