Lake District Mysteries Series Collection 7 Books Set

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Thetop of the listto come up says 'currently unavailable' which refers to the cancelled Sharpe Books version. Most of the book consists either of Simmy & Chris having repetitive discussions about their future, Simmy driving around the Lake District on random errands or Simmy, Ben & Bonnie having equally repetitive discussions about the murder. Throughout, Simmy remains smugly self-absorbed and self-congratulatory, while being critical of everyone else. I really wanted to enjoy this book but unfortunately I didn't. I really enjoyed reading about Hawkshead and the places in it because it matched up to how I recall when I used to holiday there however once the nostalgia had worn off this book seriously had its flaws.

Rebecca Tope is a British author who writes mainly in the Mystery and Thriller genres. She has written four successful murder mystery series’ and also some ghost stories. Rebecca is known is known to have penned down a few famous fictional characters such as Den Cooper, a Devon police detective, Thea Osborne, a house sitter in Cotswold, Drew Slocombe, former nurse, etc. She is also a journalist by profession. Rebecca Tope was born on January 1, 1948 in the Midlands and was raised in Chesire. Later, she moved to Devon along with her family full of farmers by profession. She had some extreme experiences during her farming days, which inspired her to write her first novel titled ‘A Dirty Death’. In this novel, she has very well depicted the cruelty, the frustration of idyllic summer days, harvesting teamwork, delights of staying among young animals and death based on her experiences.

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Longlisted for Crimefest (International Crime Fiction Convention) "Sounds of Crime (unabridged)" for Blood in the Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon) [15]

Simmy delivers a bouquet to an old lady in Ambleside, and is once again dragged into a murky situation that is dangerous and bewildering. DI Moxon, local police detective, finds himself as concerned for Simmy's safety as he is to find the killer. We then have the story....oh great. The plot was extremely slow, none of the characters really seemed to want to actively do anything regarding the disappearance of their 'friend', there was only one character who did go and search for them (coincidentally my favourite of all the characters just purely because she did something) and contributed to the plot at all. There were talks of a game which didn't really seem to amount to anything. The police were pretty much useless (which I think is highly unlikely given the circumstances but ok). I blundered accidentally into writing crime fiction, and stillwonder how it happened. It could just as easily have been historical, or sagas or even non-fiction. Indeed, I am currently trying my hand at two of those genres, as a change of pace. And I have large plans for a series of memoirs. Rebecca grew up on farms in the 1950s and 60s, and then went to Swansea University, where she did a BA in English and Philosophy. She had poems and short stories published in small magazines from that time on, but it was only after marrying, producing four children and working at a succession of part-time jobs that she got published with her first crime novel, A DIRTY DEATH. This book is based on childhood memories of farming life. The thrill of publication was slightly marred by the fact that the cow on the cover was a Friesian and not a Jersey. Rebecca still worries that people think she can't tell the difference... Some readers did not like the lead, they felt she was not interesting; and the other characters were stiff and had no emotion at all. The readers did not feel as if they really knew these characters, or if they really wanted to get to know them. Nothing in the book, say these people, drew them in the book keeping them wanting to read the book. Some of the readers did not like the people who were family members of the couple that was getting married, how they would summon Simmy just to ramble on and on and not really get to the point of why they summoned her.This was a cosy mystery perfectly fine to get out of the library and while away the commute, and I quite enjoyed it. Memory of Water (published in 2006, based on the feature-length opening episode of Series 2) Allison & Busby ISBN 978-0749081270 She founded a small press, Praxis Books, in 1992, which has concentrated almost exclusively on reissuing the works of Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924). She has also written and published a definitive biography of Baring-Gould. Some found the book to be a little drawn out, making the ending come a lot later than they thought it should. Some found the book to have a shallow story and dull characters. Some felt that the book features characters with odd names to try to stand out, as nothing else that Tope writes about does stand out. It all just sort of fades away almost minutes after they are done reading it. They also found some of the events to not be very realistic either. Longlisted for Crimefest "Sounds of Crime longlist – unabridged" for Slaughter in the Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon) [16]