THE VICARAGE MURDER an addictive crime mystery full of twists (Monica Noble Detective Book 1)
Discover a new series of murder mysteries set in an idyllic English village. From million-selling author Faith Martin. Meet Monica Noble: the vicar’s wife with a taste for solving crimes. Please note this book was first published as “AN UNHOLY MESS” under Faith Martin’s pen name JOYCE CATO. IN A QUIET COTSWOLD VILLAGE ALL HELL
Discover a new series of murder mysteries set in an idyllic English village. From million-selling author Faith Martin.
Meet Monica Noble: the vicar’s wife with a taste for solving crimes.
Please note this book was first published as “AN UNHOLY MESS” under Faith Martin’s pen name JOYCE CATO.
IN A QUIET COTSWOLD VILLAGE ALL HELL IS ABOUT TO BREAK LOOSE
Monica Noble is throwing a party to welcome the village’s new residents. The guests include Margaret and her cheating husband Sean. Also on the list are a celebrity chef, an Oxford university professor, a 40-something divorcee, and the owner of a chain of gyms.
Then as the drinks are flowing, a shotgun blast rings out. One of the guests is found dead.
DCI Dury and Sergeant Jim Greer are soon on the scene and discover that the victim had many enemies. Almost all the guests harbour secrets and motives for murder. Even Monica’s daughter comes under suspicion.
When another villager is strangled to death nearly a week later, the stakes are raised.
Can Monica help the local detectives save her daughter and solve the murders before anyone else pays the ultimate price?
This is the first of a series of enjoyable murder mysteries with great characters and baffling crimes which will keep you gripped till the final page.
Perfect for fans of classic whodunits by authors like Agatha Christie, LJ Ross, TE Kinsey, and J.R. Ellis.
MONICA NOBLE was widowed young, leaving her to raise her feisty daughter on her own. That is, until she met and fell in love with Graham Noble, a country vicar (pastor), who enticed her to leave her high-flying job in advertising in the city and move to the Cotswold countryside. There she found bucolic life very pleasant indeed — until murder started to rear its ugly head. And she discovered, to everyone’s surprise, that she had a flair for solving the most unholy of crimes.
What readers are saying about THE VICARAGE MURDER
“From the 1st page I was gripped.” Barbara
“A twisty jigsaw of a novel.” Sue
“Classic whodunit perfect for fans of Agatha Christie that will keep you guessing till the end.” Javier
“Very well done, Ms. Martin! More of Monica Noble, please.” Joyce
“A story that gripped me from the beginning.” Aileen
FAITH MARTIN is the best-selling author of the DETECTIVE HILLARY GREENE and JENNY STARLING mysteries, which have topped the global best-seller charts.
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JENNY STARLING MYSTERIES
Book 1: THE BIRTHDAY MYSTERY
Book 2: THE WINTER MYSTERY
Book 3: THE RIVERBOAT MYSTERY
Book 4: THE CASTLE MYSTERY
Book 5: THE OXFORD MYSTERY
Book 6: THE TEATIME MYSTERY
Book 7: THE COUNTRY INN MYSTERY
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Vicars (wife) in a twist Whilst everything you would expect from this author I must confess, this one is not my favourite lead character. A decent read, especially for followers with Faith, but I just found this a little too contrived. None the less my thanks to Net Galley and Joffe books.
Great read, so many suspects! Faith Martin is always worth reading! This time a real puzzler, with pretty much all the residents of the newly converted vicarage being possible suspects for a murder. The storyline weaves together the charactersâ stories, alibis, possible motives etc and encourages us to an insight into their lives without giving away too many clues. Loved this book!
This promises to be another highly successful series. (Please note this book was first published as “An Unholy Mess” under the pen name Joyce Cato.)This is the first book in an exciting new series from Faith Martin featuring Monica Noble, a vicar’s wife with a taste for crime solving. Widowed young and with a teenage daughter, Monica has remarried, given up her high powered London advertising executive job and settled into a quieter way of life. In the sleepy Cotswold village of Heyford Basset the enormous former vicarage has been developed…