The murder of a bride's ex-lover on the eve of her wedding puts her diplomat aunt, Meredith Mitchell, and acerbic Chief Inspector Alan Markby on the trail of a killer who may be the bride herself, her movie-star mother, or one of many other suspects

Say It With Poison

GRANGER, Ann

Literature & Fiction

St Martins Pr

When her new friend and neighbor, equestrienne Harriet Needham, is fatally thrown from her horse soon after Meredith Mitchell's return to her home in the Cotswolds, Mitchell begins an investigation into her friend's dark past

A Season for Murder

st.martins press

Former Foreign Service Officer Meredith Mitchell and her old friend, Chief Inspector Markby, investigate the murder of a victim whose remains were discovered at a construction site

Cold in the Earth: A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery

A dispute between an ambitious entrepreneur--who wishes to turn the town's venerable Springwood Hall into a trendy hotel--and the locals turns deadly, and Chief Inspector Markby and Meredith Mitchell step in to investigate.

Murder Among Us

Ingeniously plotted and full of vividly drawn characters, Where Old Bones Lie is Ann Granger's fifth crime novel featuring the exciting sleuthing team of Alan Markby and Meredith Mitchell. What do you do when you think your ex-lover murdered his wife? That's the question Ursula Gretton, an archaeologist working on an ancient Saxon burial ground on Bamford Hill, puts to Meredith Mitchell in the hope that Meredith's friendship with Cotswold chief inspector Alan Markby might cast some light on her dilemma. To Meredith's irritation, Markby is dismissive of Ursula's suspicions concerning the disappearance of Dan Wollard's wife - that is, until a woman's body is found in the garbage dump near the site Wollard and Ursula have been excavating. The archaeologists aren't the only ones disturbing the peace of the remote windswept hill. Much to the fury of the local landowners, the taciturn and truculent Felstons, a band of New Age hippies has set up camp on the hill, only to disappear at dawn the day after the discovery of the body. Markby is faced with a tangle of conflicting clues, suspects and possible witnesses - including Meredith Mitchell herself. And when a second body is found it is clear the web is growing ever more complex - and destructive.

Where Old Bones Lie

The body of a teenage girl is found in the heart of the leafy Cotswolds. As Chief Inspector Markby notes, for the Bamford community in which the murder has taken place, things will never be quite the same again. It is not long before the girl is identified: fifteen-year-old Lynne Wills who habitually drank underage in The Silver Bells pub and, on the night of her death, was seen leaving with an unknown man. Despite his years on the local force, Markby is aware that, in common with the rest of his generation, his grasp on the lives led by Bamford's teenagers is frustratingly tenuous. For even the most respectable youth, subterfuge is second nature, their liaisons conducted expertly behind the backs of unsuspecting parents. Liaisons that can, as in the case of Lynne Wills, result in tragedy. Markby's friend, Meredith Mitchell, has been befriended by one troubled young girl, Katie Conway, heir to the dilapidated Devaux estate. On the surface Lynne and Katie have nothing in common except their age and home town. But could the insights Katie gives Meredith into her difficult family background - an aristocratic mother whose hereditary eccentricity borders on extreme instability, a doting father at the end of his tether, and a scheming resident secretary - throw some light on the background of the murdered fifteen-year-old? And, given that forensic evidence now points to Lynne Wills's murder having taken place in the Devaux family mausoleum, could these insights also shed light on her murderer?

A Fine Place for Death

To Meredith Mitchell's slightly jaundiced eye, the penultimate day of the Chelsea Flower Show bears comparison to the battle of Waterloo, its war-weary veterans struggling on to the bitter end. But even her anxiety to encounter something other than yet another rose bush couldn't explain why she picked her old schoolfriend Rachel Hunter out of the crowd with such enthusiasm - they had never in fact been that close, and Meredith quickly realizes that she and the well-heeled, effortlessly self-confident blonde have even less in common now than they did as teenagers. Apart from one thing: Meredith's companion, Chief Inspector Markby. To the embarrassment of all concerned - except of course the self-possessed Rachel - Meredith's old schoolfriend turns out to be Markby's former wife, from whom he was divorced years before in less-than-friendly circumstances. The meeting with Rachel is not the only surprise the trip has in store for Markby. Before the afternoon is over, he has a death on his hands, a death that is soon proved to be far from accidental. Both he and Meredith find themselves drawn into the plush, apparently well-run world Rachel and her second husband Alex Constantine have created in their Cotswold home, Malefis Abbey, a world that Markby becomes convinced harbors a highly skilled murderer.

Flowers for His Funeral: A Markby and Mitchell Village Whodunit

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Twelve years after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl, a body turns up in the Gresham family plot, and DI Alan Markby and his friend, Meredith Mitchell, uncover links between the dead girl and a member of the local gentry, a respected MP.

Candle for a Corpse (Meredith and Markby Mysteries)

A move to rural Oxfordshire from London in search of a more peaceful existence turns deadly as Sally and Liam Caswell become the targets of what appear to be animal rights activists, until their neighbor is found to be hiding something and a body turns up

A Touch of Mortality (Mitchell and Markby Series)

Having recently learned of the suspicious death of an eccentric, wealthy old woman, Meredith and Alan take a cottage nearby and when the local handyman is found murdered they jump right on a killer's trail

A Word After Dying

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