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A move to rural Oxfordshire from London in search of a more peaceful existence turns deadly as Sally and Liam Caswell become the targets of what appear to be animal rights activists, until their neighbor is found to be hiding something and a body turns up

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Oakley family of Bamford, England, has lived in the shadow of tragedy. In 1889, Cora Oakley died by inhaling a poisonous gas in her sleep, and her husband William was put on trial for the murder. Although the case was dismissed, Oakley's reputation was ruined, and he fled the country, never to be heard from again.Over a hundred years later, the only remaining members of the Oakley family are two elderly sisters living in Bamford, who exist in poverty in their rambling ancestral home, Fourways. Unable to maintain their mansion, the sisters have decided to sell the house and live comfortably on the proceeds. But a young Polish man named Jan appears, claiming to be William Oakley's great-grandson and brandishing what he alleges is Oakley's will, which entitles him to half the profits from the sale. The sisters panic, knowing that, although Jan's claims don't stand up, a court case could drag on for years, and time is not on their side. When Jan is found dead, poisoned by the same substance used to kill his great-grandmother so many years ago, it seems that murder has returned to haunt the Oakley family once again, and Superintendent Markby must unravel two mysteries, one from a hundred years ago, to find the killer. In Shades of Murder, Ann Granger has crafted another tough case for Mitchell and Markby.

Investigating the murder of a teenage girl in Bamford, Chief Inspector Alan Markby seeks out the unknown companion who became the last person to see the victim alive and enlists the help of Meredith Mitchell, who works with another troubled teen. Reprint.

Twelve years after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl, a body turns up in the Gresham family plot, and DI Alan Markby and his friend, Meredith Mitchell, uncover links between the dead girl and a member of the local gentry, a respected MP.

The murder of a bride's ex-lover on the eve of her wedding puts her diplomat aunt, Meredith Mitchell, and acerbic Chief Inspector Alan Markby on the trail of a killer who may be the bride herself, her movie-star mother, or one of many other suspects

The body of a teenage girl is found in the heart of the leafy Cotswolds. As Chief Inspector Markby notes, for the Bamford community in which the murder has taken place, things will never be quite the same again. It is not long before the girl is identified: fifteen-year-old Lynne Wills who habitually drank underage in The Silver Bells pub and, on the night of her death, was seen leaving with an unknown man.Despite his years on the local force, Markby is aware that, in common with the rest of his generation, his grasp on the lives led by Bamford's teenagers is frustratingly tenuous. For even the most respectable youth, subterfuge is second nature, their liaisons conducted expertly behind the backs of unsuspecting parents. Liaisons that can, as in the case of Lynne Wills, result in tragedy. Markby's friend, Meredith Mitchell, has been befriended by one troubled young girl, Katie Conway, heir to the dilapidated Devaux estate. On the surface Lynne and Katie have nothing in common except their age and home town. But could the insights Katie gives Meredith into her difficult family background - an aristocratic mother whose hereditary eccentricity borders on extreme instability, a doting father at the end of his tether, and a scheming resident secretary - throw some light on the background of the murdered fifteen-year-old? And, given that forensic evidence now points to Lynne Wills's murder having taken place in the Devaux family mausoleum, could these insights also shed light on her murderer?

When a bulldozer breaking ground of a new mall uncovers the corpse of a mystery man buried alive, Bamford Chief Inspector Alan Markby teams up with friend Meredith Mitchell to solve the mystery. Reprint.

A dispute between an ambitious entrepreneur--who wishes to turn the town's venerable Springwood Hall into a trendy hotel--and the locals turns deadly, and Chief Inspector Markby and Meredith Mitchell step in to investigate.