{"product_id":"the-vicarage-murder-an-addictive-crime-mystery-full-of-twists-monica-noble-detective","title":"The Vicarage Murder","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeet Monica Noble: the vicar’s wife with a taste for solving crimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlease note this book was first published as “AN UNHOLY MESS” under Faith Martin’s pen name JOYCE CATO.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIN A QUIET COTSWOLD VILLAGE ALL HELL IS ABOUT TO BREAK LOOSE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonica 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen as the drinks are flowing, a shotgun blast rings out. One of the guests is found dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDCI 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen another villager is strangled to death nearly a week later, the stakes are raised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan Monica help the local detectives save her daughter and solve the murders before anyone else pays the ultimate price?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect for fans of classic whodunits by authors like Agatha Christie, LJ Ross, TE Kinsey, and J.R. Ellis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMONICA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faith Martin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51410978963625,"sku":"9781789311686","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781789311686.jpg?v=1792293384","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-vicarage-murder-an-addictive-crime-mystery-full-of-twists-monica-noble-detective","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}