Anthea Fraser
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Tempest family and friends are gathering for Cassie's eighteenth birthday party. But as they come together, a series of explosive events will threaten everything they hold dear. Cassie's sister Jess is about to fly to Italy on holiday, but can she forget the horror of what she saw in her flat that afternoon? Family friend Jenny Barlow has been keeping a devastating secret for years... but for how much longer? And does the discovery of a dead...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A new Rona Parish mystery. - An old school photograph in which someone has been deliberately blacked out marks the start of a new case for Rona Parish. Who was this person and why would someone want to hide his or her identity? Rona sets out to uncover the secret and soon finds that the school in question closed down many years ago due, it was rumoured, to a long-forgotten scandal. Could this be the link that will solve the mystery? Meanwhile, a visit...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
A Rona Parish Mystery - Journalist Rona Parish continues her popular series on local family businesses with a piece on the Willow furniture emporium. For once, there don't seem to be any skeletons in the Willow family cupboards. But when Louisa, the daughter of Rona's reserved elderly neighbours, comes to Rona with a plea for help, it seems there may be a dark secret closer to home, and all Rona's journalistic instincts are aroused . . .
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Rona Parish's last assignment, a series of articles on the town of Buckford, is almost complete, when a young woman approaches her with a request to help her trace her natural parents. Rona's curiosity is aroused - not least because she discovers that the woman's birth mother had been murdered in her bath twenty-five years earlier.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First World edition.
Language
English
Description
A Rona Parish mystery - Writing an article on old family businesses, Rona Parish contacts Curzon, local manufacturers of fine bone china, when she learns they're launching a spectacular new line. Little does she realize that she will directly precipitate a terrible tragedy, a tragedy whose roots stretch back to George Curzon, son of the firm's founder and known to his contemporaries as the Rogue in Porcelain .
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Journalist Rona Parish is eager for a fresh challenge. A chance encounter with an old friend, Kate, now married into the Tarlton family, gives her an idea. Rona will research the histories of several long-established family firms in the town, notably the Tarltons and the Clarendon Hotel. Then Kate enlists Rona's help in getting to the bottom of sister-in-law Freya's terrifying nightmares, and Rona finds herself drawn into the complex web of relationships...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When successful biographer Rona Parish is asked to write the life-story of a bestselling author, recently deceased, she is intrigued, to say the least. After all, Theo Harvey led a very colourful life, and died in mysterious circumstances. But Rona's husband Max is wary and, it soon becomes apparent, with good reason...As Rona begins to delve into Theo Harvey's life and death, and to interview his friends and family - some more willing than others...
10) Jigsaw
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The return of Rona Parish - Rona Parish is ready to embark on a new assignment. She is to write a series of articles for the 600th anniversary of the local market town of Buckford, looking at its churches, schools and celebrated inhabitants. But her first encounter with the elderly Edna Rosebury raises unresolved questions about a recent tragic murder and Rona's investigative antennae are instantly on the alert . . .
11) Retribution
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Biographer Rona Parish is keen to finish her series on successful single mothers for local glossy magazine, Chiltern Life -- and interviewing the mysterious and intriguing Nicole Summers should round it off nicely. But on a visit to Nicole's house, Rona makes a shocking discovery. Meanwhile, Rona has also taken on a new project -- finishing the book acclaimed biographer Russell Page was writing on Gideon Ward, a TV presenter, before the recent car...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
Tragedy strikes a quiet Dorset town when the bodies of Sarah and Charles Drummond are discovered in their home one morning while their two young children, Abby and Mia, sleep upstairs. The police seem certain that Charles killed his wife before taking his own life, and the girls' grandmother, Cicely Fairfax, makes sure that they are shielded from the horrific truth. Until now. Sixteen years later, an accident at work leads Mia to have disturbing flashbacks...
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling mystery, a broken engagement leads a woman to an isolated Welsh hotel-where she finds peace, healing, and a criminal conspiracy. For Clare Laurie, breaking off her engagement to Philip, left only remorse and feelings of guilt, rather than the relief and freedom she craved. Seeking time alone, Clare has come to the isolated Welsh hotel of Carreg Coed to heal. But the atmosphere seems strangely oppressive, with all the residents absorbed...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Biographer Rona Parish has a new project, contributing a series for the local glossy magazine, Chiltern Life, documenting life changing experiences from those who have lived through them. When her father suggests she speaks to his friend Frank Hathaway, who was in Iraq during the invasion of Kuwait, Rona decides to pay him a visit. But Frank was also badly injured in a failed rescue attempt following a car crash the previous year, and has been tormented...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"Mark Richmond's trip to York takes a surprise detour when he runs into Helena Crawford and ends up accompanying her to her parents' ruby wedding anniversary in Drumlee, Scotland. Six months earlier, Mark attended Peter Kingsley's sixtieth birthday party - the father of his now-estranged wife, Sophie - where Peter was unexpectedly taken ill. Mark's father, Charles, has been friends with Peter for forty years, but how well does he really know him?...
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