Ellie Quicke is struggling to re-establish her place in life after her husband's death. As she begins to come to terms with her circumstances a brutal murder takes place in the church opposite. Is this something to do with the fighting couple next door? Or are the police as mistaken in their enquiries as she suspects? Ellie's mind is fogged by sleeping pills, but she's sure she saw something important that night. In the meantime, her relatives are vying for their share of her husband's will, and more than one potential suitor is already on the scene. Ellie begins to weigh up the strange goings-on in the neighborhood. Does the boy next door know more than he's saying? The murder victim's mother is missing. And something is happening to Ellie. A personality more astute and capable is emerging from her unassuming past. Perhaps there is more to her than people imagine after all. But soon her own life is under threat.

Murder at the Altar (Ellie Quicke Mystery Series #1)

HELEY, VERONICA

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

The couple argue next door, the boy next door seems to know more than he is saying, and the murder victim's mother is missing. This first in a series of mysteries is set in a church, and features Ellie Quicke, a recently widowed woman who finds herself to be something of a sleuth.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Harpercollins

Murder by Suicide (Ellie Quicke Mystery Series #2)

Just as Ellie Quicke is beginning to come to terms with life as a widow, poison pen letters start to spread through the parish. The first targets are their much-loved vicar - who is dramatically transferred to another church under a cloud of suspicion - and their feeble little organist. When poor Nora goes to pieces under the strain of persecution, Ellie is asked to help out. Ellie reluctantly intervenes while valiantly trying to cope with her own family crisis. Her rapacious daughter Diana threatens to move back home while wealthy Aunt Drusilla becomes ever more demanding. To complicate life further, Ellie gains two suitors, one of whom may not be all he appears to be. The poisonous letters keep on coming, and now their targets include Ellie herself. Perhaps there is more than one crafty hand at work? The police are no help, even when one victim is driven to suicide. Ellie soon discovers that the poison spread by the letters can be fatal to anyone who receives them.

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

The second in a series of Ellie Quicke Mysteries, based in a church setting and featuring a recently widowed woman who finds herself to be something of a sleuth. When Ellie returns home from her Christmas holiday, she is shocked to hear allegations of foul play at the vicarage. Within days, the vicar, Ellie's good friend, is dismissed and transferred admist rumours that he was having an affair with Nora, the plain but talented organist. Everyone is furious with Nora for the departure of the vicar, yet Ellie tries to help the disturbed woman. Nora shows her some of the threatening letters she has received and tells her of some menacing harassment she is enduring. But it all becomes too much for Nora, and the village is shocked when she commits suicide. Ellie decides to get involved, despite warnings from Roy, a newcomer who is showing romantic interest in her. As she begins to decipher a series of clues and strange confrontations, she realizes that her own life is in danger.

After 24 years, she's learning the truth that was hidden from her as a child. Now the fate of many people depends on what she will do with it. At the age of four, Araminta 'Minty' Cardale was exiled from Eden Hall on the wings of a scandal. Twenty years later, summoned by her half-sister, she has returned to see her dying father. But her hopes of a warm family welcome are shattered, and she is rejected once again. Making a place for herself in the village at the gates of Eden Hall, Minty begins to learn the truth about her father and her long-dead mother. She has yet to understand the threat she represents to family members who care only for money, power, and self-advancement, or the hope she offers to the community she is growing to love. And there are some who will do anything to prevent her finding out until it's too late. Thankfully, Minty has friends to stand by her, and, in this modern Cinderella story, she find an unlikely and unpredictable champion. At stake are the soul of her father on his deathbed---and the future of the entire village.

Eden Hall (The Eden Hall Series, Book 1)

Religion & Spirituality

Zondervan

Minty must overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to keep her home and her relationship with the man she loves In Book Two of the Eden Hall series, Minty has inherited her beloved Eden Hall---and a host of problems. The villagers depend on the Hall for their livelihood, but there is no money to keep the massive Hall open. Members of her step-family do their utmost to undermine her reputation, and some of the staff at the Hall are up to no good. Everyone has high expectations for Minty but she is too inexperienced to avoid all the pitfalls in her new life. To make matters worse, Patrick, her true love, is having doubts about their future together. They both must learn how to forgive those who have damaged them in the past, even when those same people still have the power to destroy them.

The Lady of the Hall (The Eden Hall Series, Book 2)

Eden Hall, the ancient English stately home, has brought Araminta 'Minty' Sands more joy---and heartache--- than she could ever have imagined. She's worked hard to keep it open to the public; but, exhausted from looking after the twins, Minty has no energy to maintain the Hall as she once did. Worn-out and fearing another trouble-filled pregnancy, she's also pushed her husband, Patrick, away physically and emotionally. And now her old enemy has returned: Judith Kent, known worldwide as amoral rock star Maxine. Claiming to be reformed, Judith begs Minty for a job. Against her better judgment, Minty agrees. Then, with Patrick in Brussels on urgent business, mysterious 'accidents' begin to happen, endangering both Minty and her twins. When a horrifying secret surfaces---one that, if made public, could destroy the hall and everything she has worked for---Minty realizes time is running out. Has Judith really turned her life over to God, or is she plotting to take over everything Minty has---including Patrick?

Master of the Hall (The Eden Hall Series, Book 4)

Grieving after a miscarriage, Araminta 'Minty' Sands has set aside the demands of running Eden Hall for a season of healing. But her convalescence in Europe is cut short when a crisis back home requires her husband Patrick's immediate attention. Minty returns to Eden Hall early, unexpected . . . and utterly unprepared for what awaits her. In Minty's absence, plans for an enormous concert on the estate grounds have got underway with neither her knowledge nor approval. Minty first learns of it when she is refused admittance at the gates by security guards. It is the first of many outrages in a battle of wits and will between the interlopers and the Lady of the Hall. At stake is the future of Eden Hall, and more is afoot than greed, corruption, and the struggle for control. A deeper, hidden evil has gained root. Beautiful, seductive, and deadly, it threatens to tear apart everything Minty holds dear. Defeating it will require courage and intelligence and the help of friends . . . and something more: the power of prayer, and the weapons only God provides.

Secret of the Hall (The Eden Hall Series, Book 3)

Kate

Children's Books

Fawcett Coventry Books

False Fire (An Abbot Agency Mystery, 11)

Severn House

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Murder at the Altar (Ellie Quicke Mystery Series #1)

Murder at the Altar (Ellie Quicke Mystery Series #1)

Murder by Suicide (Ellie Quicke Mystery Series #2)

Murder by Suicide (Ellie Quicke Mystery Series #2)

Eden Hall (The Eden Hall Series, Book 1)

The Lady of the Hall (The Eden Hall Series, Book 2)

Master of the Hall (The Eden Hall Series, Book 4)

Secret of the Hall (The Eden Hall Series, Book 3)

Kate

False Fire (An Abbot Agency Mystery, 11)