All of my crime and suspense novels are now available as ebooks from:
Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Sony, Diesel, Kobo, Apple, and W H Smith.
* = also in large print; + = also on audio tape
- From Knife to Noose
- Fatal Slip
- A Cut Above the Rest
- Riding for a Fall
- Presentation to a Dying
- Veiled Destiny
- The Knot Garden
Historical Crime by Caroline Clare
From Knife to Noose
New ebook from
Whiskey Creek, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon
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Most French aristocrats fleeing the revolution must earn a living.
- Comte Luc de St Pierre wants to discover what happened to family jewels, and thinking the Earl of Redditch can help, obtains a position as the irascible Earl's valet.
- When the Earl is murdered, Luke Peters, as he is now known, is suspected.
- One of the revolutionaries, Bossard, is also seeking the jewels, and thinking Luke's young sister Sylvie has information, threatens her.
- Luke must find the real murderer while evading Bossard and his thugs, and safeguarding Sylvie.
- ebook: Whiskey Creek 2011 ISBN 9781603131377
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver
Contemporary Crime
Fatal Slip - the first Dodie Fanshaw mystery
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Flamboyant, wealthy, middle aged and several-times married Dodie Fanshaw is in Madeira to help make a film about her early life as a chorus girl and Hollywood starlet, and her husbands.
- She is not amused when her son Jake, indifferent actor, appeals to her for money. Instead of going back to England he remains in Madeira, and contrives to alienate Dodie's friends, a rival actor, the Madeiran family who run the hotel where he had been staying, and a wealthy elderly woman with whom he is now living.
- The situation becomes intolerable when Jake, drunk and abusive, comes uninvited to a party on a yacht on New Year's Eve, arranged to watch the annual Funchal firework spectacle.
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781465954268 Amazon
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver
A Cut Above The Rest * - a Dodie Fanshaw mystery
Available from W H Smith
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Which characters dared to write the author out of the script?
When Dodie Fanshaw went to stay with her daughter, Elena, in Markenlea,
she had been expecting a peaceful, sedate village on the banks of the
River Thames. But then a mermaid clambers out of the river and into
Elena's garden.
- Well, not a mermaid exactly - a mysterious, sopping-wet girl. Bizarre and intriguing though she is, it's only when Dodie and Elena call on Elena's neighbour, best-selling novelist Rick Wilbraham, that the real story unfolds. There they find Anna, Rick's girlfriend, hysterically clinging on to Rick's lifeless body.
- Soon Rick's pleasant riverside garden fills up with his neighbours, ex-lovers, his publisher and agent, and Dodie can't help herself getting involved in this close-knit village.
- A literary puzzle, but what genre is the motive? It could be Romance, might be Financial Thriller. And the mermaid? Well, that's just pure Fantasy . . .
- Severn House 2004 ISBN 0727861255 Dales Large Print 2006 ISBN 9781842624838
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781466097933 Amazon
- Copyright © 2004 Marina Oliver
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Riding for a Fall - the third Dodie Fanshaw mystery
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When Dodie Fanshaw goes to stay with her old friend Christine, she soon realises there are tensions, both in the family living at the Manor and the one where Elena is organising daughter Rebecca's wedding.
- John, the young brother of Robert, who owns the Manor, hates his Uncle Michael, Robert's Trustee, and because he wants to be a detective, gains a reputation as a snooper.
- Then there is a tragic death, but was it the right victim?
- Plenty of people have both motive and opportunity, and Dodie is determined to discover the truth.
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781465795670 Amazon
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver
Presentation to a Dying - the fourth Dodie Fanshaw mystery
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In two previous Dodie Fanshaw mysteries, the deaths could have been accidents, but she was sure they were murders and determined to unmask the villains.
- This death is clearly murder, and the police investigate the many people who had grudges against the new Rector, from his family and his new parishioners.
- The trouble is, most of them have no alibis, and not all of them tell the truth.
- Dodie, visiting Sir William and Lady Talbot at the Manor, is able to discover the vital clue.
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781465856371 Amazon
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver
Romantic Suspense by Marina Oliver
Veiled Destiny * +
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The twisting roads through the Chiltern Hills are lonely at night. When
Sophie Stone realises the car behind is deliberately following her, she
is angry, then afraid - the ordinary drunken yob doesn't carry a
machete.
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Desperately, she uses her local knowledge to evade her pursuer, just as
handsome, enigmatic Luke Despard intervenes. Grateful to him, Sophie is
convinced it was a purely random attack. Why should anyone want to kill
her?
- Her business partner, Pru Bailey, counsels caution. What do they know of Luke? A sequence of threatening events follows, and Sophie begins to suspect they are deliberate. Yet the only people who could benefit from her death are Pru, and Sophie's own half-brothers and sisters. Sophie's father was rich, but she cannot believe any of them would harm her...until there is a sudden violent death. Could it have been murder?
- She turns to Luke, outside the family. With him she'll be safe, hidden from whoever is persecuting her. But then she almost dies. Now, Sophie cannot trust anyone but herself. Alone, she must confront the dangers shadowing her every move, and track down the killer - before she becomes the next victim.
- Severn House 1997 ISBN 0727852469 Magna large print 1998 ISBN 0727852469 Magna Story Sound ISBN 1859031889
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781466065314 Amazon
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver
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The Knot Garden
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When Mr Greenslade, owner of Green Valley Garden Centre, falls from his wheelchair one night
and is rushed into hospital, his daughter Tansy, talented interior designer, gives up the
chance of a prestigious commission to go home to the Cotswolds and take charge.
- Things have been going wrong at the Garden Centre, small irritating mistakes, petty vandalism, and what increasingly seems like major sabotage.
- Is the incompetent manager responsible, or the charismatic Karl, whose company is trying to buy the centre?
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781465796462 Amazon
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
