Julia Chapman

Delilah Metcalfe, the owner of The Dales Dating Agency, is besieged by financial concerns, struggling to keep two businesses afloat and a roof over her head. She has no choice, but to accept Samson O'Brien as a new tenant for her office space. Dismissed from the police force and facing criminal prosecution, Samson has returned to his home town to set up a detective agency while he fights to clear his name. But when Samson gets his first case, investigating...

"Lies can be deadly in the Dales..." --cover. "A woman in tears in the Dales Detective Agency is never the best way to start the week. But when that woman is the wife of Bernard Taylor, town mayor and eminent businessman, there is even more cause for alarm. So when Nancy Taylor asks the detectives to investigate whether her husband is having an affair, Samson O'Brien and Delilah Metcalfe know they will have to tread carefully. The case, however,...

Samson O'Brien of the Dales Detective Agency is being questioned by the police about a murder, with the truth about his policing past about to be brutally exposed. And with Bruncliffe village turning on Samson, his business partner Delilah Metcalfe finds herself in the impossible position of defending him to her friends and family. Then Delilah's nephew, accused of being under Samson's influence, runs away from home and a frantic search begins. And...

Samson O'Briens problematische Vergangenheit im Polizeidienst scheint ihn einzuholen: Die ehemaligen Kollegen vernehmen ihn hart in einem Mordfall, und Delilah Metcalfe hat alle Hände voll zu tun, um ihn im ansonsten beschaulichen Bruncliffe in Schutz zu nehmen - bis ihr Neffe von zu Hause wegläuft und es zu einer verzweifelten Suchaktion kommt. Und so, bei all den Ablenkungen, mit denen das Dorf nun zu kämpfen hat, kommt es, dass allein einem...

Als Mrs Shepherd an einem kalten Dezembermorgen die Dales Detective Agentur betritt, felsenfest davon überzeugt, dass jemand sie umbringen will, tut Samson O'Brien ihre Befürchtungen als die Gespinste einer verwirrten alten Dame ab. Doch im Altersheim des Ortes häufen sich plötzlich merkwürdige Vorfälle, und so fragt er sich, ob an der Sache nicht doch etwas dran sein könnte. Erneut müssen Samson und Delilah zusammenarbeiten, um dem Schurken,...