Frances Brody. (2016). Death of an Avid Reader: A Kate Shackleton Mystery Series, Book 6. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Frances Brody. 2016. Death of an Avid Reader: A Kate Shackleton Mystery Series, Book 6. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Frances Brody, Death of an Avid Reader: A Kate Shackleton Mystery Series, Book 6. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2016.

Frances Brody. Death of an Avid Reader: A Kate Shackleton Mystery Series, Book 6. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2016.

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   • bioText: FRANCES BRODY lives in Leeds in the North of England. Before turning to crime with her first book in the Kate Shackleton series Dying in the Wool, she wrote historical sagas, winning the HarperCollins Elizabeth Elgin award for most regionally evocative debut saga of the millennium. Other Kate Shackleton Mysteries include Death at the Seaside, A Death in the Dales, and Murder on a Summer's Day.
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An intricate plot set in the 1920s English countryside and Frances Brody's "refreshingly complex heroine" (Kirkus) Kate Shackleton make Death of an Avid Reader an absorbing 6th installment in this mystery, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Agatha Christie.
The Search for a Daughter
Lady Coulton gave up the baby that would have ruined her marriage, born when Lord Coulton was abroad. Now that her husband is dying, she asks Kate to find Sophia.
A Haunted Library
It is forty years since the ghost of a dead librarian haunted the old library, yet the stories have begun again. Kate does not believe in ghosts but obligingly takes part in a ceremony to expel the restless spirit. Shockingly, there is a body in the basement, strangled, and covered in dusty volumes from a fallen bookcase. It is Dr. Potter, a mathematician.
A Killer on the Loose
Dr. Potter's body is taken away. The police find a sick man sheltering in the basement. He is an Italian, Umberto, an organ grinder and owner of a lively Capuchin monkey. Umberto becomes the prime suspect and will be charged with murder. Kate goes with Umberto to the infirmary. But he is too weak to be a suspect. And now Kate must set out to find the real culprit...

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   • source: Bill Spence, York Press on Murder on a Summer's Day
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     "Frances Brody knows how to hold the reader attention and make them continue reading into the small hours of the night."

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   • source: Daily Mail (UK)
   • content: "I have enjoyed all five Kate Shackleton books but this is the best so far. Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers."
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     July 25, 2016
     In Brody’s charming sixth mystery set in 1920s England (after Murder on a Summer’s Day), private detective Kate Shackleton agrees to help Lady Coulton locate the daughter she gave up soon after birth while her husband—who’s not the child’s father—was serving in South Africa during the Boer War. Lord Coulton, who’s on his deathbed, would have divorced her at the time had he known of her indiscretion. Kate’s search for the now-grown daughter takes her to Yorkshire, where she ends up participating in a ceremony to expel alleged ghosts from an old library in Leeds. In the library’s dark cellar she happens on the strangled body of a well-known mathematician, as well as an organ grinder who’s barely alive. Former policeman Jim Sykes ably assists Kate in the ensuing investigation. Kate and Jim are sharply rendered, quirky and intelligent with complementary skills. Readers will enjoy watching them at work. Agent: Judith Murdoch, Judith Murdoch Literary (U.K.).

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     July 1, 2016
     A socially superior private detective seeks a child long ago given up for adoption.Kate Shackleton travels from Leeds to London at the request of Lady Coulton, who's asked her to find Sophia, the baby she gave away to her nanny's sister in 1901, after she had an affair while her husband was off in South Africa. Even today, Lady Coulton can't acknowledge Sophia's existence, but ever since the nanny died, she's been anxious about how her daughter is faring. Back home in Leeds, there are problems at the reputedly haunted library in which Kate has an interest. A battle is raging to determine whether the library will stay or move to new premises. When Kate discovers a monkey hiding in her car, she realizes it must belong to the local organ grinder, who's soon found deathly ill in the library basement along with a valuable book and the body of Dr. Potter, a mathematician also connected to the library. Inspector Wallis seems sure the organ grinder is guilty, but Kate, who has little faith in his skills, adds the murder to the case she already has in hand. As it turns out, the two may well be connected. Kate's inquiries reveal that Sophia may be working in a library; indeed, she may be the assistant recently sacked from the Leeds Library after being accused of theft. Kate, who was herself adopted into the well-to-do family of a chief constable, is determined to track down Sophia but must investigate past scandals and present-day love triangles before she can determine who is the real Sophia. Brody (Murder on a Summer's Day, 2016, etc.) has the style of the classic British cozy down pat. Plenty of distinctive characters, charming animals, and twists and turns add up to a delightful, though not particularly taxing, mystery.

     COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     August 1, 2016
     Kate Shackleton, a WWI widow from Leeds, England, who has reinvented herself as a private detective, has been engaged by a London noblewoman to find her illegitimate daughter, thought to have been adopted by a family near Leeds. She starts her investigations at the library, stopping to chat with Dr. Potter, a mathematician who also serves with Kate on the library committee. Then matters turn a little weird. First, there's the capuchin monkey Kate finds stowed away in her car. Then there's the exorcism she agrees to attend at the library, and finally, there's the crumpled body of Dr. Potter, which Kate finds in the library basement. The police immediately accuse a shivering, barely alive organ grinder (remember the monkey?). As Kate, a former nurse, nurses the accused, she concludes that he cannot have bashed Dr. Potter and determines to prove his innocence, though the murder investigation impedes her real case. These various, unlikely threads do come together eventually, and, in the process, Brody draws the reader into the wacky doings in Leeds.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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The Search for a Daughter
Lady Coulton gave up the baby that would have ruined her marriage, born when Lord Coulton was abroad. Now that her husband is dying, she asks Kate to find Sophia.
A Haunted Library
It is forty years since the ghost of a dead librarian haunted the old library, yet the stories have begun again. Kate does not believe in ghosts but obligingly takes part in a ceremony to expel the restless spirit. Shockingly, there is a body in the basement, strangled, and covered in dusty volumes from a fallen bookcase. It is Dr. Potter, a mathematician.
A Killer on the Loose
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