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Date with Evil: A delightfully witty and charming mystery set in the Yorkshire Dales: 8 (The Dales Detective Series, 8)

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She resides in the Yorkshire Dales a beautiful place in England that gives her plenty of inspiration for her books in her mystery series– which happen to have stories that take place in exactly the same place! Julia Chapman is the pseudonym of Julia Stagg, who has had five novels, the Fogas Chronicles set in the French Pyrenees, published by Hodder.

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Cozy Case Files Volume 12 (By: Carolyn Haines,Donna Andrews,Hannah Dennison,Cate Conte,Kylie Logan,Leonard Goldberg,Allison Montclair,Sheila Connolly,Ellie Alexander,Ashley Weaver,S. But with Samson O���Brien still in London helping the Met Police clear his name, and the newly appointed member of the investigations team, Ida Capstick, distracted by her brother George’s insistence that their farm is haunted, Delilah Metcalfe is struggling to meet the mounting demands for the agency’s services. Then when Samson gets his very first case, working on the supposed suicide of a local guy, things take a rather unexpected turn, and he quickly finds a series of deaths which lead right to the door of her agency. From stolen washing to inheritance investigations, Bruncliffe’s Dales Detective Agency is being inundated with cases. Metcalfe is the owner of her very own Dales Dating Agency, and at the moment, it’s a business that isn’t exactly paying off.

However what begins as just a simply safety and health investigation quickly takes a more sinister turn when they find evidence that points to murder. Against the backdrop of a winter in Yorkshire, they have to work together yet again if they are going to uncover the evil that threatens the elderly residents in Bruncliffe. Once all three of these cases start to converge on each other, Delilah and Samson are going to find that their latest investigation is fraught with some danger. Her most pressing cases include an irate housewife whose laundry has been stolen from her washing line, a suspicious fire at a caravan park, a missing real estate agent, produce theft, and "something paranormal" going on at the home of one of the agency's part-time detectives.

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Biography: Julia Chapman is the pseudonym of Julia Stagg, who has had five novels, the Fogas Chronicles set in the French Pyrenees, published by Hodder. She spent the majority of that time as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language but also dabbled in bookselling, pawnbroking, waitressing and was once 'checkout-chick of the month' at a supermarket in South Australia! Date With Death” is the first novel in the “Dales Detectives” series and was released in the year 2017. A woman in tears in the Dales Detective Agency is never the best way to start the week and when it's the town mayor's wife, asking the detective to investigate whether her husband is having an affair, Samson O’Brien and Delilah Metcalfe know they will have to tread carefully. Cozy Case Files Volume 5 (By: Carolyn Haines,Donna Andrews,Carola Dunn,Sheila Connolly,Ellie Alexander,Susan C.

Its distinctive landscape and way of life provide the setting for her latest set of novels, the Dales Detective series. When a retirement home reports a series of incidents disturbing the peace, the detective starts to think that she may have been telling the truth. Samson O’Brien, who has been implicated in the murder of a man in Leeds faces some tough questions from the cops, as Delilah, his business partner, faces some criticism from her friends and family for her loyalty to the black sheep in town.

Date with Deceit by Julia Chapman - Pan Macmillan Date with Deceit by Julia Chapman - Pan Macmillan

Julia Chapman is the author of the Dales Detective series, which follows the adventures of Samson O'Brien and Delilah Metcalfe as they solve cases in the Yorkshire Dales. The series stars Delilah Metcalfe, who is a young woman that makes a living while running a dating agency. The team may make a good pair, but they’re also dealing with someone that is not normal like them Instead, they’re a straight up cold blooded killer.In the eighth novel in the Dales Detective series, Date with Evil, Samson and Delilah are about to discover that all of their new cases may be connected to a network of evil that seems to be surrounding Bruncliffe. Stagg has also written a few novels that were set in the French Pyrenees but is now writing crime fiction under her other pen name. Her first series of books, the Fogas Chronicles, were written while she was running an auberge in the French Pyrenees with her husband.

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With the threat of going into the red way too far looming over her head, Delilah is faced with a tough situation. While Samson and Delilah combine resources once more, before too long they have become embroiled in untangling this mystery which has lain at the town’s core for decades. While Delilah is undercover at a local shoot to better keep tabs on the errant husband, she is on the scene for a fatal incident that sends the Yorkshire town into turmoil. Cozy Case Files Volume 2 (By: Carolyn Haines,Donna Andrews,Hannah Dennison,Cate Conte,Diane Kelly,E. Cozy Case Files Volume 10 (By: Carolyn Haines,Donna Andrews,Cate Conte,Diane Kelly,Ellen Hart,Ellie Alexander,Vivien Chien,Jane K.Readers will relish the romantic to-ing and fro-ing between Samson and Delilah, but the pacing is exceptionally loose, and Chapman devotes too much space to character exposition.

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