Hannah Dennison
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When Kat Stanford abandons a successful television career to help her mother, Iris, move into a rustic carriage house in Devon, she quickly discovers that, behind the well-trimmed hedgerows, Honeychurch Hall is populated by more eccentrics than Kat ever met in all her time in London. The Dowager Countess, Lord and Lady Honeychurch, their precocious seven-year-old heir, his missing nanny, a brooding stable manager, a housekeeper with an extensive designer...
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Constable
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2022
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Following the butler's death and the cook's retirement, the ever-gullible Lady Lavinia replaces them with a power couple who are determined to thrust the crumbling estate into the 21st century. The Dowager Countess reluctantly agrees to hold a big-ticket Christmas gala and silent auction with a mystery celebrity flying in from Monaco as the guest of honour. Needless to say the newcomers' make a few enemies in their quest to change the status quo and...
3) Scoop!
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Vicky will do anything to get off the obituary circuit and on to the front page! If there's one thing she has learnt, it's how to spot something fishy at a funeral - and plenty is amiss at the service for champion hedge-cutter Gordon Berry. In her quest for a scoop, Vicky finds she has to confront everything from bad dates to mortal danger.
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Constable
Pub. Date
2023
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At last St Mary's church is going to have its own vicar! Not only that, the gorgeous Reverend Pritchard is sixty, single and in need of a wife. But when he spearheads a campaign to restore a derelict chapel - rumoured to be haunted by a German Luftwaffe pilot - in a far-flung corner of the Honeychurch estate, the Dowager Countess puts her foot down. But nobody quite understands why. Meanwhile, a fierce bidding war at an auction of military memorabilia...
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Constable
Pub. Date
2018
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All's fair in love - and antiques wars! Things are going well for Kat Stanford; not only is her antiques business thriving, she's also got a new date: Piers Carew, Viscount Chawley, who owns the estate next to Honeychurch Hall. Unfortunately, Kate has a rival. Impossibly beautiful Cassandra Bowden-Forbes is also in town, conducting valuations at the same fairs as Kat - and she makes no secret of the fact she's got her eye on Piers. And then things...
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Constable
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2021
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When one of the villagers asks Kat to clear out her dead sister's bedroom, she's thrilled to find a miniature replica of her mother's Carriage House among some junk. When she shares her discovery Lady Edith is eager to show her the matching replica of Honeychurch Hall that has been languishing in the vast attic for decades. Unfortunately, when they look there, it seems to have been stolen. Suspicion falls on a woman who's holidaying in the newly installed...
7) Thieves!
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Robinson
Pub. Date
2012
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Unaware that their temporary pitch is also the site for the annual Morris Man dance-a-thon, the gypsies have set up their campsite, much to the dismay of everyone in town. When the body of an unnamed woman is found in a shallow stream, Vicky suspects a connection between the murder and recent thefts.
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Constable
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2016
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Kat Stanford stumbles upon a hidden room in an abandoned wing at Honeychurch Hall. However, Kat's initial excitement soon ends in horror. There, lying on the cold, stone floor, Kat comes across the body of a young woman dressed in an Egyptian toga and wearing a tawdry fairground trinket around her broken neck. Suspicion falls on some of those who live at the Hall - both upstairs and down and even those who are just been passing through. Matters come...
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Constable
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2020
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Spring is in the air and so, too, is the sound of music as the residents of Honeychurch Hall are stunned to learn that the Dowager Countess Lady Edith Honeychurch has agreed to the staging of a production of The Merry Widow in the dilapidated grand ballroom. Fears that the fiercely private octogenarian must be going senile are soon dismissed when our heroine, Kat Stanford, learns that the favour is a result of a desperate request from Countess Olga...