Gently in Trees (George Gently)

Alan Hunter (author)

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These are the original books on which the TV series was based, although the George Gently in Al This was no suicide, however it looked - too many people wanted Adrian Stoll dead. These are the original books on which the TV series was based, although the George Gently in Alan Hunter's whodunits is somewhat different to his TV counterpart.

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He is more calculating, more analytical, and his investigations are even more enthralling. Kindle Edition , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Gently in Trees , please sign up. Lists with This Book.

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This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jul 09, Hapzydeco rated it really liked it. Columbo approach once again exposes the perpetrator.

Mar 12, John rated it it was ok. Dusty old nasty s police detective novel, reprinted because of the television series.

A crowd of hepcats are suspected, leading to the improbable revelation of the murderer. The novel is reactionary to the movements of the times, but still immoral in the s way. Feb 08, Teresa rated it it was ok. There is a television series from these mysteries. This one would be easy to adapt, since it is mostly dialog, so one feels as though they are reading a play.

You can just see these people walking over to stage left and exiting through the door to the garden, while someone else stares into space from the sofa. Feb 20, Jon Newswanger rated it liked it. I've recently been binge watching the TV series and have come to love Martin Shaw's portrayal of Gently. Thus, among other things, I was more than a bit disappointed at the absence of Sergeant Bacchus.

It started out rather slowly, but picked up speed toward the end. Carolyn Hammond rated it really liked it Jan 17, Heather Mathie rated it really liked it Jul 28, B W rated it really liked it Jun 05, Martin Glassborow rated it liked it Nov 26, Arthur Carpenter rated it really liked it Jul 18, Barb Yockstick rated it liked it Jul 21, Louise Culmer rated it liked it Jun 18, Amy rated it really liked it May 27, Fay Brown rated it liked it Sep 02, Christine Griffiths rated it liked it Jul 07, Irene Sauman rated it really liked it Mar 29, Angela Vousden rated it it was amazing Sep 03, But to do so, he must question old loyalties, confront his past and unravel a mystery that some would sacrifice anything - and anyone - to protect.

McLean'Cracking pace, satisfyingly twisty plot. A great read' James Oswald'Crisp dialogue, characters you believe and a prose style that brings you back for more. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of.

Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant, but socially awkward, civilian analyst, Tilly Bradshaw, the mismatched pair uncover a trail that only he is meant to see. The elusive killer has a plan and for some reason Poe is part of it. As the body count rises, Poe discovers he has far more invested in the case than he could have possibly imagined.

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And in a shocking finale that will shatter everything he's ever believed about himself, Poe will learn that there are things far worse than being burned alive Tightly plotted, and not for the faint hearted! Malone 'Nothing you've ever read will prepare you for the utterly unique Washington Poe' Keith Nixon. Armand never knew the elderly woman, and the bequests are so wildly unlikely that he suspects the woman must have been delusional - until a body is found, and the terms of the bizarre document suddenly seem far more menacing.

But it isn't the only menace Gamache is facing. The investigation into the events that led to his suspension has dragged on, and Armand is taking increasingly desperate measures to rectify previous actions. As he does, Armand Gamache begins to see his own blind spots - and the terrible things hiding there.

Praise for the award-winning Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series: Fifteen years ago Ryder Creed's sister, Brodie disappeared from an interstate rest stop. She was only eleven and Creed was fourteen. Since then her disappearance has haunted him, so much so that Creed has dedicated his life to his K9 business.

He rescues abandoned dogs and trains them for scent detection. Together they search for the lost and missing. A thousand miles away during a police raid, FBI special agent Maggie O'Dell stumbles upon a clue that may explain what happened to Brodie Creed all those years ago. The search and scavenger hunt that follows will be as gut-wrenching for Creed, as are the answers he discovers. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth - Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman - returns in M.

Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series. Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul attended church in Lochdubh. He told the minister, Mr. Wellington, that his sermons were boring. He told tweedy Mrs.

Wellington that she was too fat. Angela Brody was told her detective stories were pap for the masses and it was time she wrote literature instead. He accused Hamish of having dyed his fiery red hair. He told Jessie Currie - who repeated all the last words of her twin sister - that she needed psychiatric help. Voices saying, 'I could kill that man,' could be heard from Lochdubh to Cnothan.

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Now Hamish is faced with a bewildering array of suspects. And he's lost the services of his clumsy policeman, Charlie, who has resigned from the force after throwing Chief Inspector Blair into the loch. Can Hamish find the killer on his own? Beaton'The much-loved Hamish Macbeth series. When suspicion turns to Gamache himself, and his possible involvement in the crime, the frantic search for answers takes the investigation to the village of Three Pines, where a series of shattering secrets are poised to be revealed.

Ingenious, gripping, and powerful, A Great Reckoning is the twelfth spellbinding novel in the Chief Inspector Gamache series from number one bestseller, Louise Penny.

Evocative and atmospheric, this magnificent work of crime fiction will stay with you long after you turn the final page. The burning of a light aircraft in a lonely field in Scotland and the daring kidnap of French industrialist Hugo Barentin are, on the face of it, two unconnected incidents. But there is a tenuous link: Chief Superintendent Gently, shortly back from France himself, is called on again as events from the 'Hornfleur Affair' are thrown into a new, and painful, relief. Is Gabrielle still involved? And, if she is, will Gently be quick enough to beat her to the showdown and to deflect his colleague, Empton, from precipitating a bloodbath?

With no time to spare Gently pits himself against the hooligans on both sides of the law, and against a woman determined to sacrifice herself to save a man who was kind to her and to salvage her conscience. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose.

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But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back about an intruder, he simply marvels at her compulsion to lie. This time, though, she is telling the truth. Her body is found in her home and Hamish must sort through all of her lies to solve the crime.

Praise for Death of a Valentine: Beaton fans will be delighted. When a dilapidated cargo ship sinks, killing the illegal immigrants packed in below decks, the man responsible goes free, but not for long. Two weeks later hi is found dead in bed with a knife in his back. Human trafficker Thomas Blackburn lived and died in the heart of London's West Indian community and, when the attitude of the local murder squad Chief Superintendent is deemed likely to aggravate race relations, George Gently is called in to oversee the case.

But as tempers flare within the community, fuelling the fires of racial conflict, time is not on his side. Our Books See all Books. Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay. The Dry by Jane Harper. Welcome to Night Vale:

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