Successful Cotswold psycho-thriller writer Melissa Craig, heroine of "A Little Gentle Sleuthing", is back, this time teaching creative writing in the local tech where the department secretary is found with her throat slashed.

Finishing touch

ROWLANDS, Betty

Hodder&Stoughton

A stylish and entertaining debut. Successful crime novelist Melissa Craig had fled London, her loverand her agent and took refuge in the Cotswolds, dreaming of undisturbed peace and the production of yet more bestsellers. Whena corpse is discovered under the leaf-mould in woodlands close to her isolated cottage, professional curiosity gets the better of   her judgement, and Melissa discovers that truth can be even       stranger than her own fiction.

A Little Gentle Sleuthing

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Jove Pubns

Over the Edge

Hodder

Exhaustive Enquiries

Melissa Craig, the crime-novelist heroine of three previous novels, is back in her native Cotswolds, on the trail of a world-wide art fraud. By the author of "A Little Gentle Sleuthing", "Finishing Touch" and "Over the Edge".

Hodder&Stoughton Canada

Crime writer Melissa Craig is writing her latest novel when a series of threatening notes appears. Melissa finds herself on the trail of a poet with a malicious intent to harm. Betty Rowlands is the winner of the 1988 Sunday Express/Veuve Cliquot Short Story of the Year Competition.

Malice poetic: a Melissa Craig mystery

Mystery

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Smiling at Death (A Melissa Craig Mystery)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Hodder Headline Australia

The Cotswold village of Upper Benbury is buzzing with rumour and gossip. The body of a young gipsy girl has been found in a discarded freezer. A local newshound, hot on the trail of the story, persuades crime writer Melissa Craig to accompany him to the gipsy encampment. Then Melissa learns that members of the victim's family are planning their own brand of justice for the outsider who lured their girl away - and her determination to track down and warn the Romanys' intended victim lands her in grave danger, exposing dark secrets in unexpected places.

The Cherry Pickers

New English Library

Aidan Cresney seems to be a model citizen. An active member of the parish council and a former barrister, he took up beekeeping as a retirement hobby. One day he is found dead after suffering multiple stings, and when a second family member dies in similar circumstances, tongues begin to wag. Soon Melissa Craig, the Cotswolds' intrepid crime-writing sleuth, starts to uncover some disturbing secrets.

Sweet Venom (Melissa Craig Mysteries)

<p>In the French countryside to research the history of the Camisards for her next novel, author Melissa Craig must turn to her own sleuthing skills to solve the murders of two people. Reprint.</p>

BERKLEY

<p>The old hotel where mystery writer is Melissa Craig is staging her first play becomes the scene of a crime when a cast member falls to his death, giving Craig her cue to investigate. Reprint.</p>

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Finishing touch

A Little Gentle Sleuthing

Over the Edge

Exhaustive Enquiries

Malice poetic: a Melissa Craig mystery

Smiling at Death (A Melissa Craig Mystery)

The Cherry Pickers

Sweet Venom (Melissa Craig Mysteries)

Over the Edge

Exhaustive Enquiries