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Murder and Mayhem
Murder and Mayhem
Murder and Mayhem
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Murder and Mayhem

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Five diverse crime books. An opportunity to maybe break out of the mould and try something different.

This exciting anthology brings together 5 mysteries that traverse dark deeds and tangled webs across England. In Choral Mayhem, new choir members Virginia and Richard Grainger find tragedy striking their first performance together when the choir master meets a very public death. In The Curious Case of the Black Swan Song, a chance hotel encounter between inheritor Sherman Holmes and fellow guest John Garden leads the duo to join forces in solving a murder, launching a new detective agency. Scotch Mist finds Lady Amanda Golightly and her friends invited to a Scottish castle for Burns' Night, only to have their holiday interrupted by the specter of death among the bagpipes and haggis. In Strict and Peculiar, mysterious figures and messages in an old village chapel under renovation prompt a police investigation that soon turns dark. And in High-Wired, detectives Olivia Hardy and Lauren Groves bond over their love of music while navigating complicated family lives, as they work to solve a harrowing local murder. With clever characters, twisting plots, and an array of menacing mysteries, these stories will intrigue any fan of classic British crime fiction.

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Release dateNov 12, 2023
ISBN9798223851424
Murder and Mayhem
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Andrea Frazer

An ex-member of Mensa, Andrea Frazer is married, with four grown-up children, and lives in the Dordogne with her husband Tony and their seven cats. She has wanted to write since she first began to read at the age of five, but has been a little busy raising a family and working as a lecturer in Greek, and teaching music. Her interests include playing several instruments, reading, and choral singing.

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