Successful Cotswold psycho-thriller writer Melissa Craig, heroine of "A Little Gentle Sleuthing", is back, this time teaching creative writing in the local tech where the department secretary is found with her throat slashed.

Finishing touch

Betty Rowlands

Hodder&Stoughton

A stylish and entertaining debut. Successful crime novelist Melissa Craig had fled London, her loverand her agent and took refuge in the Cotswolds, dreaming of undisturbed peace and the production of yet more bestsellers. Whena corpse is discovered under the leaf-mould in woodlands close to her isolated cottage, professional curiosity gets the better of   her judgement, and Melissa discovers that truth can be even       stranger than her own fiction.

A Little Gentle Sleuthing

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Jove Pubns

Over the Edge

In the French countryside to research the history of the Camisards for her next novel, author Melissa Craig must turn to her own sleuthing skills to solve the murders of two people. Reprint.

Over The Edge

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

<p>Following a series of murders in a small Cotswolds village, the residents are taking refuge behind a wall of silence. When Melissa discovers the body of a 4th victim bearing the hallmark of the killer, she is drawn into yet another complex mystery.</p>

Smiling at Death (A Melissa Craig mystery)

Hodder

The Cotswold village of Upper Benbury is buzzing with rumour and gossip. The body of a young gipsy girl has been found in a discarded freezer. A local newshound, hot on the trail of the story, persuades crime writer Melissa Craig to accompany him to the gipsy encampment. Then Melissa learns that members of the victim's family are planning their own brand of justice for the outsider who lured their girl away - and her determination to track down and warn the Romanys' intended victim lands her in grave danger, exposing dark secrets in unexpected places.

Cherry Pickers

The Cherry Pickers

Mystery

New English Library

<p>Graham Shipley has come to the Cotswolds to take up a new teaching appointment and to make a fresh start after the break up of his marriage.  He is made welcome by the Head of the school and by his new neighbour in Upper Benbury, crime writer Melissa Craig.  But shortly after his arrival a young girl is found drowned.  Foul play is suspected and when Graham's past threatens to catch up with him, he asks for Melissa's help.</p>

The Man at the Window (A Melissa Craig Mystery)

London: Hodder & Stoughton 2000

Graham Shipley has come to the Cotswolds to take up a new teaching appointment and to make a fresh start after the break up of his marriage.  He is made welcome by the Head of the school and by his new neighbour in Upper Benbury, crime writer Melissa Craig.  But shortly after his arrival a young girl is found drowned.  Foul play is suspected and when Graham's past threatens to catch up with him, he asks for Melissa's help.

A Man At The Window

Crime writer Melissa Craig has built a reputation for solving real mysteries in her local Cotswolds area. But when her estranged father is found murdered in his shed, events move chillingly close to home.

The Fourth Suspect

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