False Pride, book 12 in the Abbot Agency series. Bea Abbot’s plans are disrupted by the unexpected arrival of one of her clients, bearing a
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Attending a birthday celebration for two young girls, Bea Abbot tries not to let superstition get the better of her when she realizes they are
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Ellie is desperate to find someone to look after their elderly housekeeper, Rose, whose health is failing. But employing a carer recommended by Ellie’s difficult
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Ellie opens the door to a man who is a stranger but instantly recognisable as the father of her housekeeper’s brilliant but difficult young son.
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Ellie’s friend on the police force asks her to enquire about some deaths in the community which might or might not be suicide, and various
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Ellie has always disliked the Great White Shark – as the local big estate agent is called – and is distressed when her daughter Diana
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While Bea Abbot worries that she’s lost control of her domestic agency, she’s asked to find some domestic help for an eccentric little musician falsely
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Troubles never come singly. Ellie’s old friend and housekeeper falls off a ladder and hurts herself after seeing a ‘ghost’ in a neighbour’s house .
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Bea Abbot runs a domestic agency that does not ‘do’ murder. But the disappearance of Tomi, the star of an award-winning short film, is a
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Ellie Quicke, although comfortably re-married to her best friend Thomas, is still inclined to act hastily. When she took in a young rape victim, she
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Bea Abbot and her two young assistants run a domestic agency which doesn’t ‘do’ murder. There was nothing sinister about Zander’s request for Bea to
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Ellie and her new husband are suffering from terrible colds when called to deal with Ursula, a student with a mind of her own, who
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Velma is charm itself, especially when she’s being inexact with the truth. Now she wants Bea to check up on her stepson Philip, as he’s
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Ellie Quicke is a feisty widow, busy with family and church affairs until a pitbull savages a young mother to death in the nearby park.
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Feisty widow Ellie Quicke collects some Portuguese laurel for Mrs Dawes, that formidable flower arranger, only to step on a dead body…a corpse without an
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A mysterious bout of sickness hits the parish after a lunch at church and Ellie is horrified to discover that her home-baked quiches are considered
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It seems an innocent request; would widowed Ellie Quicke visit a man whose dog died in an accident? The dog’s master – a powerful but
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The body of a young girl is found in next door’s neglected garden to the horror of the occupiers, who are great friends of Ellie’s.
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Adjusting to life as a wealthy widow, Ellie Quicke is shattered to hear that her difficult but endearing Aunt Drusilla has been killed in a
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Ellie Quicke, fiftyish and recently widowed, is still trying to come to terms with her newly single state. She’s coping, just, but could do without
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Just as Ellie Quicke is beginning to come to terms with life as a widow, malicious letters start to spread through the parish. The much-loved
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For years Ellie Quicke has been at her husband’s beck and call, and now she’s alone and unsure of herself. A greedy daughter and a
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