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David Middleton-Brown
and Lucy Kingsley Series
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DRINK OF DEADLY WINE
A priest receives
a poison pen letter threatening to expose a sin long past. He turns
for help to David Middleton-Brown, who must face his own hidden
desires and dark dreams before he can uncover the truth at St. Anne's
in this superb novel of suspense.
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SNARES OF DEATH
Investigating
an ancient rivalry between High and Low churches when a new uprising
results in the murder of a reformist vicar, David Middleton-Brown
finds suspects in two pious spinsters, an animal rights group, and
the dead man's wife.
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APPOINTED
TO DIE
Visiting the
quiet cathedral town of Malbury, amateur sleuths Lucy Kingsley and
her lover David Middleton-Brown chance to see the fireworks ignited
with the arrival of the new Cathedral Dean. Far from pious, this
administrator's ruthless behavior, fueled by naked ambition, upsets
many members of the community - and drives someone to murder.
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A DEAD
MAN OUT OF MIND
Emotions run
high at St. Margaret's parish when a beloved curate is murdered
and a woman vicar is chosen to replace him. Church historian David
Middleton-Brown and his companion, painter Lucy Kingsley, sympathize
with the woman, but when money from the church disappears and a
parishioner is killed, Lucy and David begin a desperate search for
a dangerous murderer.
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EVIL
ANGELS AMONG THEM
St. Michael
and All Angels Church is a peaceful refuge. But just outside its
doors, in the tiny town of Walston, the atmosphere is anything but
peaceful. A series of terrifying phone calls is attacking the sanity
of the rector's young bride. A nosy biddy is stirring up trouble.
A new churchwarden has been elected without the rector's consent.
And the gruesome murder of one of the town's most familiar faces
has the church's priest looking for help from above. What he gets
instead is a visit from his old friends Lucy Kingsley and David
Middleton-Brown who begin to unravel tangled relationships and dark
secrets in Walston and a killer who plans to shed more blood.
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UNRULY
PASSIONS
Margaret Phillips,
one of the first of her sex to achieve the office of archdeacon,
has reached a stage when both her career and private life are harmonious.
Valerie Marler, best-selling author, is also in control of her life,
and calls all the shots - until she meets Margaret Phillips's husband.
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OTHER
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STRANGE
CHILDREN
Motherless
Tessa craves a husband and baby and following a whirlwind romance
with Rob Nicholls her dreams seem to come true. With a baby on the
way, she looks forward to getting to know her new mother-in-law.
But before she can, Linda Nicholls is murdered and Tessa desperately
needs to know why.
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CRUEL
HABITATIONS
Jacquie Darke's
sister, Alison, had been banished from her home 11 years ago, never
to be heard from again. Her parents' deaths enable Jacquie to search
for her, leading her to the somnolent cathedral town of Westmead,
where she discovers her sister was murdered the day after she left
home.
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Despite
the fact that she was born in Cincinnati and has an MA from Indiana University,
Carol Chase (a.k.a. Kate Charles) has a considerable knowledge of both
British society and the Church of England, due also to her experience
in church administration. Thus the creation of her David Middleton-Brown
and Lucy Kingsley series set in the English religious environment. Chase
has recently acquired a UK passport. A consolation following the decision
by her American publishers not to issue a paperback volume because considered
too British for US readers. 