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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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Delilah decides to consider others for the office space and eventually decides that Samson O’Brien would make as good a tenant as any.

Of course, Samson saves the day, solves the murders, and the Dales Detective Agency is assured of lots of business. I will not say much more about the rustling story but it involves a bolus - read the story to find out what this is. Back in Brunscliffe where he grew up, he gets a mixed reception generally, mostly from the Metcalfe clan and especially from Delilah Mercalfe - they went to school together - now struggling financially and forced to be his reluctant landlady. Needing something to do to take his mind off all the emerging complexities of the case, Jimmy goes out to split and divide the rhubarb, but finds something buried there. Samson and Delilah are totally and hopelessly in love with each other, like teenagers, but they have each been hiding their feelings.Her first series of books, the Fogas Chronicles, were written while she was running an auberge in the French Pyrenees with her husband. Usually I am confident about just jumping into an ongoing mystery series as authors will provide background for readers new to the series. The author does a fabulous job in drawing all the characters and the settings and if Bruncliffe was a real place I would definitely want to visit. Des longueurs, du remplissage et des pages et des pages qui ne servent qu'à entretenir un suspense sans fin.

Samson is in London helping the Met, so Delilah is left to run the agency with newly minted detective Ida Capstick. Julia's writing is so descriptive I can visualise myself there in that brutal landscape and hear the accent of the people speaking in this book. Delilah is trying to run both the Dating Agency and the Detective Agency, and also install a new computer system at Taylor's Estate Agents.

It's all hands on deck, the three policemen, Samson, Nathan, Nina, George, Grigore, Pavel, and the Fellside pensioners.

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