Bøker utgitt av Kate Minchin

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer...The night before the ancient well-dressing tradition in the Derbyshire village of Castledale, the dressers work feverishly to get the displays finished in time. However, someone has got in ahead of schedule. One of the wells is already dressed... with a dead body.Despite being determined not to get involved in the investigation into how Cora Parrish came to drown in the well, and concentrate instead on her day job as cafés manager at the popular local tourist attraction Charleton House, amateur sleuth Sophie Lockwood can't help being intrigued. From the victims of Cora's schoolgirl bullying to those wishing to conceal a murky past of their own, suspects abound. Distracted by the appearance of a handsome historian, and by the unexpected turn her colleague and best friend Mark's career takes, Sophie feels as if she is going round in circles, achieving nothing but stirring up the dirt.Then a startling revelation on the local news leaves Sophie convinced she has cracked the case. But after a fractious confrontation and an encounter in a remote beauty spot, she realises that even Derbyshire's very own Sherlock can sometimes get things wrong.Grab your hiking boots, we're heading deep into the stunning Peak District for coffee, cake and a country walk, with laughs, surprises and intrigue aplenty along the way.Includes three bonus short stories featuring old friends and new from the Charleton House Mysteries.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge...The flamboyantly glamorous Joyce Brocklehurst is feeling decidedly fed up. Her sturdy, outdoorsy best friend Ginger Salt has organised a weekend break not in Paris or Rome, but Buxton, their local spa town. For her part Ginger is delighted that Dennis Matty, long-term friend and hotel owner, has given her the newly renovated Mary, Queen of Scots room on the top floor. But neither she nor Joyce expects to find the body of Mary herself lying dead on the bed, the bruises of strangulation around her neck.When Ginger recognises the victim as Caroline Clatworthy, a history expert who often led tours in the guise of the 16th-century queen, she and Joyce make a wager with Dennis: he will pay their bar bill if they solve the crime before local dignitaries are due to gather in the hotel in six days' time. But their investigation soon leads them into the murky pasts of the people around them, throwing up more questions than answers. Who has been stealing from the hotel guests? What is bothering the handsome carpenter whose business is apparently booming? Why is a self-made millionaire who seems to have it all so prone to fits of uncontrollable rage? It appears everyone has a secret - including Ginger herself.Can the two friends - living proof that opposites attract - reveal the truth before Joyce's taste for champagne leaves them with a bar bill far more painful than any punishment a pitiless murderer could deliver?Join Joyce and Ginger in the first of the Joyce and Ginger Mysteries series for a luxurious break, with laughs aplenty and mysteries to solve everywhere you turn.

Till death us do part...As a passionate couple take their marriage vows in an ancient chapel, death is already waiting in the shadows for one of the persons there present.When wedding photographer Nathan Wallace arrives in the stunning grounds of Charleton House, it seems that not everyone is pleased to see him. But nobody could have predicted just how upset someone would be by his presence.When suspicion falls on her chef, catering manager Sophie Lockwood ignores the advice of DC Joe Greene and sets out on an investigation of her own. But as visitors enjoy historical re-enactments all around her, she finds that searching for the extraordinary is a challenge in a setting where Mary, Queen of Scots recently enjoyed lunch and modern-day teenagers school Victorian gentlemen in the intricacies of gay rights.With colourful colleague Joyce distracted by an unexpected romance, Sophie dodges her own unsuitable suitor while exploring one dead end after another. Relying once again on the help of quick-witted tour guide Mark Boxer, she resorts to a clandestine foray into a twilight world, stumbling - quite literally, in Mark's case - upon what appears to be irrefutable evidence. But could this, Sophie's toughest case yet, have one more devastating twist?Fans of cosy mysteries are invited to grab coffee and cake, and join Sophie on her latest thrilling, entertaining and often hilarious adventure in the heart of the English countryside.