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Next Door to Murder

01 Feb 08

Rogue in Porcelain

A Family Concern

Person or Persons Unknown

Jigsaw

About the Author

Bibliography

First British Edition Severn House (2008)

Next Door to Murder
Looking for a new subject for her popular series on local family businesses, Rona is pleased when her friend Georgia offers to engineer an introduction to Julian Willow, of the long-standing furniture emporium. Julian and his wife Felicity welcome Rona's interest, and offer her all the help she needs to write her article. Unusually, given Rona's propensity for uncovering dark secrets, there seem to be no skeletons in the Willow family cupboards.But this time it seems there may be a mystery closer to home. Rona's new neighbours, an elderly couple with a daughter, are unnervingly reserved and uncommunicative. When the young woman, Louise, comes to Rona with a plea for help, all her journalistic instincts are aroused. Against her better judgement - and husband Max' advice - Rona is once again drawn into a complex and disturbing sequence of events...

First British Edition Severn House (2007)

Rogue in Porcelain
Rona Parish is continuing her series of articles on old family businesses when she learns that Curzon, local manufacturers of fine bone china, are about to celebrate their 150th anniversary. Furthermore, this is planned to coincide with the introduction of a revolutionary new line, about which there is much speculation. Rona decides to approach the firm, and almost at once is caught up in the intricacies of the Curzon family, little realizing that her involvement will directly precipitate a tragedy no one could have foreseen, 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.

First British Edition Severn House (2006)

A Family Concern
Rona Parish is eager for a fresh challenge after her successful articles on adopted children. A chance encounter with an old friend, Kate, now married into the Tarlton family who own the oldest jewellery shop in Marsborough, sows the seed for a new series. Rona plans to research the histories of several long-established family firms in the town, notably Tarlton's and the Clarendon Hotel, which is owned by the Fairfaxes.
Kate also enlists Rona's help in getting to the bottom of her sister-in-law Freya's terrifying nightmares after a tune from a musical box triggers a severe reaction. The dreams seem to hint at a buried childhood memory and Rona finds herself drawn into a complex - and deadly - web reaching far into the past.

Hardback
Severn House (2005)

Paperback - Severn House (2005)

Person or Persons Unknown
Rona Parish's latest assignement, a series of articles on the town of Buckford, is almost complete when a young woman named Zara Crane approaches her with a request to help her trace her natural parents. Rona's curiosity is aroused - not least because she discovers that Zara's birth mother had been murdered in her bath twenty-five years earlier.
Though Rona's husband, Max, and her friends do their best to dissuade her from getting involved in what they fear may turn out to be another dangrous case, Rona cannot resist the challenge. As she starts to trace people who have have known Zara's parents, she finds herself having to deal at the same time with complications in her own life.

First British Edition Severn House (2004)

Jigsaw
When Rona Parish embarks on a new assignment, she is not expecting another brush with murder. She is to write a series of articles to coincide with the 800th anniversary of the county town of Buckford, looking at the history of its churches, schools and celebrated inhabitants.
Having found lodgings with a young woman called Nuala Banks, Rona arranges a series of interviews with various notable people in the town. But her first encounter with Nuala’s aunt, the elderly Edna Rosebury, raises unresolved questions about a local tragedy – giving Rona the first hint that things might not be as they seem . . .

About The Author
In Her Own Words
My mother was a published novelist and though I was making up poems and stories before I could write and filled countless exercise books throughout my school days, I didn’t start writing seriously until after I was married.
Laura Possessed was my first major success, and was followed by another six novels with a paranormal theme. I then wrote some romantic suspense before turning to straight crime, with sixteen books about DCI Webb, the last twelve of which were the ‘Green Grow the Rushes’ series. Next came two one-off crime novels with no police involvement, Past Shadows and Fathers and Daughters, but the lure of the series novel began to pull again, and I started a new one with a protagonist who is a biographer and freelance journalist – and thus has plenty of opportunity to stumble across crime! The first of this series was Brought To Book, and the second, Jigsaw, is out in March 2004.
I served as secretary of the Crime Writers' Association from 1986-1996.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Next Door to Murder (Severn House, 2008) Feb 08

Rogue in Porcelain (Severn House, 2007) Severn House Pbk Jul 07 (Rona Parish)

A Family Concern (Severn House, 2006) (Rona Parish)

Person or Persons Unknown (Severn House, 2005) Severn House May 05 Severn House Pbk Jul 05

Jigsaw (Severn House, 2004)

Brought to Book (Severn House, 2003)

Fathers And Daughters (Severn House, 2002)

Past Shadows (Severn House, 2001)

The Twelve Apostles (Severn House, 1999)

Eleven That Went Up To Heaven (Severn House, 1999)

Dangerous Deception (Severn House, 1998)

The Ten Commandments (Harpercollins, 1997)

One is One and All Alone (Collins, 1996)

Motive For Murder (Severn House, 1996)

The Macbeth Prophecy (Severn House, 1995)

The Seven Stars (Collins, 1995)

The Gospel Makers (Collins, 1994)

Three, Three, the Rivals (Collins, 1992)

The Lily-White Boys (Collins, 1991)

Symbols At Your Door (Collins, 1990)

The April Rainers (Collins, 1989)

Six Proud Walkers (Collins, 1988)

The Nine Bright Shiners (Collins, 1987)

Death Speaks Softly (Collins, 1987)

Pretty Maids All In A Row (Collins, 1986)

A Necessary End (Collins, 1985)

A Shroud For Delilah (Collins, 1984)

The Stone (Hale, 1980)

Island-In-Waiting (Hale, 1979)

Breath Of Brimstone (Corgi, 1978)

Presence of Mind (Corgi, 1978)

Whistler's Lane (Milton House Books, 1975)

Laura Possessed (Milton House Books, 1974)

Home Through the Dark (Milton House Books, 1974)