The Marsh and Daughter Casebook (Volume 2)

This omnibus brings collectively 4 novels, books 5–8, from Amy Myers’ very fashionable ‘Marsh and Daughter’ sequence.
The first novel to characteristic is Murder within the Mist, in whichex-cop Peter Marsh and his daughter Georgia discover themselves in a uncared for backyard, the place blue love-in-a-mist flowers are combating for survival amongst the overgrown weeds. It ceases to appear so idyllic once they uncover that in 1949, Alwyn Field, one of many Fernbourne Five, hanged himself from one in every of its bushes…
Murder Takes the Stage is the following story, and Peter and Georgia Marsh are within the Kentish seaside resort of Broadstairs, on the path of Georgia’s lacking brother Rick, once they come throughout the unusual story of a haunted fish and chip store. Tom, the ‘ghost’, was one of many Three Joeys, a clown trio who labored on the pier within the Fifties. Tom was accused of the homicide of his stunning spouse and apparently dedicated suicide – although his sweetheart, now seventy-four years previous, has by no means given up hope of discovering him once more.
Book 7 within the sequence is Murder on the Old Road. When Georgia and Peter Marsh encounter a gaggle of oddly-dressed ‘pilgrims’ about to set out alongside the Old Road to Canterbury, it’s clear that extra is at stake than the play the Chillingham Drama Group is shortly to carry out.
The assortment concludes with Murder in Abbott’s Folly, through which curiosity a few homicide attracts father-and-daughter crew Peter and Georgia Marsh to attend a summer season gala in honour of Jane Austen at Stourdens, a fast-decaying Georgian mansion in Kent. But as an alternative of having fun with a literary-themed time out, they’re thrust right into a tense state of affairs quickly approaching boiling level…
This omnibus makes best studying for all who get pleasure from cosy English crime novels within the Christie custom. Perfect for curling up by the hearth on a winter’s night or lengthy hours stress-free on a seashore in the summertime, it would delight Myers’ many followers and little question acquire her many extra.
Praise for Marsh and Daughter:
‘Myers presents all of the elements for an gratifying learn’ – Kirkus Reviews
‘Will enchantment to each cosy and historic fiction readers’ – Booklist
Amy Myers is a British author of crime novels and historic fiction, a lot of it within the custom of Agatha Christie.