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Simpson Dorothy
Doomed to Die
List Price: Price: $9.95 DescriptionDetective Inspector Luke Thanet investigates the murder of diminuitive artist Perdita Master and discovers that Perdita's secret life could have cost her her life. Reprint. PW.
Last Seen Alive (Inspector Thanet)
DescriptionWhile Alicia was a schoolgirl a jilted boyfriend had killed himself, and her parents had moved from Kent. When she turns up after twenty years she is welcomed back although nobody knows why she has returned. Within hours Inspector Thanet has to investigate her murder.
The Night She Died
DescriptionThe first Inspector Luke Thanet novel, where a beautiful young woman is murdered in her own home by possibly one of the many men eager to capture her attention.
Dead And Gone
DescriptionThe master of the classic British detective story -- the "modern-day version of Agatha Christie" (Booklist) -- returns with a stunning whodunit in her acclaimed series. Mystery fans will thrill as Inspector Luke Thanet unravels the intricate events leading up to the drowning of the wife of a renowned barrister.When Thanet gets a late-night call, he fears the worst. His daughter Bridget has been suffering complications with her pregnancy. But it's only a call to inform him that Ralph Mintaur, a respected figure in courtrooms around Kent, has reported his wife missing while in the middle of an evening of entertaining. When Victoria Mintaur's body is discovered the next morning at the bottom of the well in the Mintaurs' garden, Thanet finds that almost all of the guests present at the house that evening had reason to want her dead. So with Detective Sergeant Mike Lineham at his side, he sifts through the complex webs of past and present in search of the truth. Tantalizing and satisfying, meticulously plotted and vivid, Dead and Gone is another supreme example of Dorothy Simpson writing at the top of her game.
No Laughing Matter (Inspector Thanet)
DescriptionThe 12th crime novel featuring the Kent policemen, Inspector Thanet and Sergeant Lineham. This time they are investigating the murder of a ruthless, promiscuous local vineyard owner. This novel won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award.Simpson Dorothy News![]()
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