TH - 1251/1 | A Lesson In Dying (Inspector Ramsay #1) by Ann Cleeves

Heppleburn, once a Northumberland pit village, has always been close-knit, friendly and safe - until the murder of headmaster Harold Medburn. Suddenly, the village seems unfamiliar, uncomfortable.

The school caretaker and his daughter pursue their own route of investigation, which should have made Inspector Ramsay's job a little easier.

But hampered by false leads, powerless to pre-empt the killer's next move, and overshadowed by the evil atmosphere of All Hallow's Eve, Ramsay finds his own reputation is on the line...

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TH - 1251/2 | Murder In My Backyard (Inspector Ramsay #2) by Ann Cleeves

No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry ...
... But here she is, murdered in her own backyard on a bitter St. David’s Eve.

And when detective Stephen Ramsay starts asking questions in the village, a more ambiguous picture begins to emerge.
Yes, old Mrs. Parry was loved by everyone, but sometimes her kindness had caused trouble.
Yes, her two nephews were devoted to her, but they didn’t really want her interfering in their rather complicated personal lives.
Even among her neighbours, Alice Parry’s helpfulness had sometimes misfired; and after her death, tension tight as a clenched fist grips the uneasy village.

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TH - 1251/3 | A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy (Inspector Ramsay #3) by Ann Cleeves

For Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to visit people she wanted to see as a welcome respite from the routine duties that being a vicar’s wife entailed.
But one Thursday in June was to be more special than any other. It was the day that Dorothea Cassidy was strangled.

As the small town of Otterbridge prepares for its summer carnival, Inspector Stephen Ramsay begins a painstaking reconstruction of Dorothea’s last hours.
He soon discovers that she had taken on a number of deserving cases – a sick and lonely old woman, a disturbed adolescent, a compulsive gambler, a single mother with a violent boyfriend and a child in care – and even her close family have their secrets to hide.

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TH - 1251/4 | Killjoy (Inspector Ramsay #4) by Ann Cleeves

Gabriella Preston is found in the boot of a car, lying curled on her side like a child asleep. She is dead. The car belongs to Gus Lynch. Gus Lynch is the director of Hallowgate's Youth Theatre, Gabriella his female lead.

Inspector Ramsay and Sergeant Hunter are called in to assist the local police who have their hands full with an outbreak of joy-riding.

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TH - 1251/5 | The Healers (Inspector Ramsay #5) by Ann Cleeves

The local New Age health center was making a killing.
Two stranglings lead Inspector Stephen Ramsay to the local center where the victims were known.
Meanwhile, the murderer quietly observes Ramsay--planning a new slaying.

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TH - 1251/6 | The Baby-Snatcher (Inspector Ramsay #6) by Ann Cleeves

When fifteen-year-old Marilyn Howe turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay’s doorstep he has little choice but to invite her in. Marilyn and her mother, Kathleen, are a familiar sight around Heppleburn, a strangely inseparable couple. But Kathleen has unaccountably failed to return home that evening, and Marilyn is fearful for her mother’s safety.

Ramsay takes the young girl home, to the isolated coastal community known as the Headland. And in the Howes’ dark and cluttered kitchen they find Kathleen safe and apparently well, though acting rather mysteriously.

- From the author of Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series -

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