Bøker av Pauline Manders

Suffolk UK, 2012. Knotweed is invasive and ugly - and so is murder in Suffolk. A body is found near the railway line in Needham Market, and Nick Cowley's phone goes missing. Could anyone have guessed the repercussions?Another body is discovered, and police investigations follow tenuous trails from Bury St Edmunds to Woodbridge, Felixstowe, and beyond. Murky innuendo takes its toll but is it sufficient motive for murder? Into this mix throw a turkey farm, winery, and a French flea market pot, and you have the ingredients for a perfect murder.Nick, Chrissie and Matt, friends since their Utterly Academy days, pull together as they face unpleasant truths and resolve their conflicting gut instincts. But hard evidence is required to catch a killer.This is book 5 in the Utterly Crime Series, and can be red as a standalone.

Book 4 in the Utterly Crime Series. Sleepy Mid Suffolk (UK) wakes up to the news that a man has been found hanging in a reclamation yard near Bury St Edmunds. Within days, a bronze statue is stolen and a broken automaton with a singing bird mechanism arouses suspicion.Can there be a connection? It becomes increasingly clear that these is, as the action quickly spreads from Thorpe Morieux through to Lavenham and Woodbridge. Chrissie, Nick and Matt, friends since a carpentry course at Stowmarket''s Utterly Academy, find themselves caught up with a network dealing in stolen metal and scrap.Add in a darkly brooding young man, a rundown pizza delivery service, a spooky remote car wrecking yard and you have another witty and fast paced narrative from Pauline Manders. Her quirky main characters previously encountered in Utterly Explosive, Utterly Fuelled and Utterly Rafted, fly by the seat of their pants through a plot filled with twists, deceit and bluff as the stakes are raised for DI Clive Merry.

It is August 2013 and Chrissie Jax and D.I. Clive Merry return to Suffolk from a short break in Amsterdam. Within a week, two bodies are delivered to the morgue and the international spotlight is on Clive and his investigation. Tension mounts as a tangled web of: car paint re-spraying; a catering outfit; pike fishing, and chocolate draws in long term friends Matt and Nick. Chrissie becomes part of the investigation in a way no one could have predicted.The action moves from Alton Water to Ipswich; Bury St Edmunds to Felixstowe; Hadleigh to Woolpit and Woodbridge. This is the eighth novel in the Utterly Crime series. It stands alone, but we see the return of many characters met before.