Buy a cheap copy of dying in the wool book by frances brody. Normally a peaceful yorkshire mill town, the only exceptional thing to have happened in bridgestead is when mill owner joshua braithwaite went missing and was never heard from again. Ballard, author of the miss dimple kilpatrick mystery series. The complete series list for a kate shackleton mystery frances brody. I used to absorb them like one does the sun, so when dying in the wool graced my mailbox, i was eager to read it right away. Read dying in the wool a kate shackleton mystery by frances brody available from rakuten kobo. Frances brody is the author of ten mysteries featuring kate shackleton as well as many stories and plays for bbc radio, scripts for television and three sagas, one of which won the harpercollins elizabeth elgin award. The small, insular village of bridgestead is stunned by the senseless disappearance of local mill owner joshua braithwaite. Dying in the wool, by frances brody the independent.
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Number 1 in series kate shackleton mysteries paperback. Dying in the wool by frances brody frances brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers daily mail yorkshire, 1922 bridgestead is a quiet village. Dying in the wool is the 1st of frances brodys kate shackleton mysteries. Dying in the wool kate shackleton, book 1 by frances brody.
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Kate shackleton is a war widow who has some skill at finding people for others. Before turning to crime with her first book in the kate shackleton series dying in the wool, she wrote historical sagas, winning the harpercollins elizabeth elgin award for most regionally evoc. The kate shackleton mystery series in order frances. Frances brody has 24 books on goodreads with 35542 ratings. Number 1 in series by frances brody, in very good condition. She is hired by a friend tabitha braithwaite to locate tabithas father who went missing seven years ago.
Its been quite some time since ive read a good mystery. The characters are interesting and the plot line was strong definitely recommend. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Dying in the wool was a well written and well plotted cozy mystery set in the 1920s. Dying in the wool by frances brody, 9781250095, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Dying in the wool 2009, piatkus, isbn 9780749941871. Or download the kindle edition order a copy from booksamillion. Frances brodys kate shackleton novels have been shortlisted for the mary higgins clark award and the edgar award. On the screen of my imagination, she says, i can conjure aunts and uncles from years gone by, and the word pictures they painted of people from earlier generations. Dying in the wool, the first of frances brodys murder mysteries featuring sleuth extraordinaire kate.
Dying in the wool kate shackleton mysteries frances brody minotaur books hardcover 368 pages february 2012. Sayers and agatha christie with a thoroughly likeable protagonist and a plot that held me to. Buy dying in the wool by frances brody online at alibris. Dying in the wool by frances brody download free books. Im delighted that dying in the wool, first book in the kate shackleton series, has been chosen as a wiki enthralling historical mystery. Click to read more about dying in the wool by frances brody. Writing under the pseudonym frances brody, bestselling novelist frances mcneil debuts with her first crime novel, a retromystery set in 1920s. Its just after ww1 and kate shackletons husband is. Frances brody lives in leeds in the north of england.
Frances brody books list of books by author frances brody. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read dying in the wool. Dying in the wool is a delightful book the descriptive detail of the countryside and small village of bridgestead is so vivid i could literally have been there. Theres no gore or blood and guts but the characters, settings and twists and turns were great. She is the author of eleven kate shackleton mysteries. Rumors abounded in the local wool mills at the time that guiltridden joshua, a suspected womanizer, tried to drown himself after his soldier son was killed. Ballard, author of the miss dimple kilpatrick mystery series dying in the wool introduces a refreshingly complex heroine and adds a fine feeling for the postwar period. Researching the background for kates first adventure. Sayers and agatha christie with a thoroughly likeable protagonist and a plot that held me to the end.
Inside this book dying in the wool pdf book by frances brody i read this for a bit of light relief but was pleasantly surprised by how much i enjoyed it. These stories modernise the idiom but to me are more like the books of dorothy sayers, marjorie allingham, ngaio marsh and others. Dying in the wool is, for the majority, from kates first person point of view, but there are a few chapters scattered throughout which are from the third person perspective of other characters, which gives us details of their lives surrounding the time joshua braithwaite went missing. The first book in the kate shackleton series is dying in the wool. Dying in the wool a kate shackleton mystery authors. Dying in the wool was published in hardback by st martins minotaur in february 2012. See all books authored by frances brody, including dying in the wool, and a medal for murder, and more on thriftbooks. As a reader of history i think frances brody has done her research and gives a good picture of the period between the wars. A woman unknown was shortlisted for the mary higgins clark award. Dying in the wool paperback january 1, 2009 by frances mcneil, frances. Kate shackleton finds that she has a knack of finding missing people after w. Her stage plays have been toured by several theatre companies and produced at manchester.
Take one quiet yorkshire village, bridgestead is a peaceful spot. Frances brody comes from a great family of story tellers, though shes the first in the family to write professionally. Very glad i found the kate shackleton books i came across this book in one of the audible sales and im very happy to have found it. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens, except for the day when joshua braithwaite goes missing in dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again.
Number 1 in series kate shackleton mysteries by frances brody isbn. A kate shackleton mystery ebook written by frances brody. Several plays written by frances brody include tressell which is about robert tressell, the renowned author of the ragged trousered philanthropists. Dying in the wool 1 by frances brody 2012, mp3 cd, unabridged at the best online. Bridgestead is a peaceful and one of the quiet yorkshire villages. Frances brody is a pseudonym for frances mcneil, scriptwriter, playwright, author of four novels and winner of the elizabeth elgin award for best new saga of the. Joshua vanished back in 1916, at the height of the great war, just one month after his son edmund was killed in. Dying in the wool book by frances brody thriftbooks. Buy dying in the wool by frances brody from waterstones today. Dying in the wool a kate shackleton mystery by brody, frances and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Tv 20123 1 it delighted me to discover how many readers love the 1920s, as i do, says dying in the wool author frances brody. Frances brody books download free books online 8freebooks. If you like frances brody books, youll love rhys bowen.
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