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Date with Evil: A delightfully witty and charming mystery set in the Yorkshire Dales: 8 (The Dales Detective Series, 8)

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A son retour, ils doivent résoudre plusieurs enquêtes, du vol de vêtements à la disparition d'un jeune homme. Another DDA client, Stuart Lister, a newly qualified estate agent is almost the fourth victim, but he survives. When Pete Ferris had rescued Nathan from an isolated moors building now being run as an illegal cannabis farm, he took pictures through it's window capturing two prominent Bruncliffe businessmen - Rick Procter and mayor Bernard Taylor. Much, much later in the story, Tolpuddle will turn up at the gypsy camp looking for help when Samson and Delilah are trapped in a freezer six hours away from death, and we will learn if the gypsies are thieves or heroes. We are introduced to the two main characters Samson O'Brien and Delilah (Dee) Metcalfe, and the fictional Dales village of Brunscliffe - based on Settle in Yorkshire.

Stuart goes to local solicitor Matty Thistlethwaite for advice on shell companies, and later steals the Kingston Properties files - in cleaner Ida Capstick's bucket. She spent the majority of that time as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language but also dabbled in bookselling, pawnbroking, waitressing and was once 'checkout chick of the month' at a supermarket in South Australia. I wouldn't recommend anyone to read this book without reading the others first, relationships and storylines all converge in 'Date with Evil', but if that's too much of a reading commitment, I would at least start with the first book to get to know the characters, then read one or two before this one, if by that point you feel you can bear the spoilers.Mrs Hargreaves is the local butcher, Clive Knowles a hopeless local farmer living in squalor (he wants Dee's Dales Dating Agency to find him a wife - some hope), and Pete Ferris a local poacher.

I’m so happy I got into these cozy mysteries, they are delightful and the character development is spot on! The stakes are high, the danger greater than ever as the villain of the piece sees their plans fast unravelling, but will the Dales Detective Agency succeed in discovering the perpetrator, and will Bruncliffe be left unscathed, or will the village be scarred forever by the fallout of this last(? Her first series of books, the Fogas Chronicles, were written while she was running an auberge in the French Pyrenees with her husband. This is the eighth book in the Dales Detective series and follows almost directly on after the events of the previous book.Delilah has an elaborate plan that includes Ida Capstick manning a headquarters, switching trackers, having Samson wear a bright yellow target jumper, have a decoy similarly dressed, switching mobile phones, having a sniper backup, etc, etc. This is book three in an excellent little series - the Dales Detective Series - set in Yorkshire and with two very strong characters who have been thrown together. Amazingly, it all sort of works after a fashion, but not before Joseph is kidnapped and needs to be rescued at the Rainsrigg Quarry climax. He also asks Delilah to help Samson - Matty knows everyone will help Delilah Metcalfe, but many would send Samson packing. No doubt frightening and worrying if this were real life - but not super enticing in terms of fictional plot.

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