We now met Gareth Towler and Bounty, head gamekeeper and his dog at Bruncliffe Manor, where an important hospitality event is about to take place for Rick Procter and Bernard Taylor to entertain some business contacts (it's their bosses in the Bulgarian malfia checking up on them).

I wouldn't recommend anyone to read this book without reading the others first, relationships and storylines all converge in 'Date with Evil', but if that's too much of a reading commitment, I would at least start with the first book to get to know the characters, then read one or two before this one, if by that point you feel you can bear the spoilers. Neil realises that Delilah may discover this and so he tells her to stop work on the new computer system and reinstate the old. I have enjoyed this series immensely from book one and would say please read the other books before this one as this brings together threads from a few of the previous books.

Her first series of books, the Fogas Chronicles, were written while she was running an auberge in the French Pyrenees with her husband. She spent the majority of that time as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language but also dabbled in bookselling, pawnbroking, waitressing and was once 'checkout chick of the month' at a supermarket in South Australia. Cozy Case Files Volume 10 (By: Carolyn Haines,Donna Andrews,Cate Conte,Diane Kelly,Ellen Hart,Ellie Alexander,Vivien Chien,Jane K. It should have been caught on CCTV but Samson and Delilah found that the CCTV was not working and it was often not working. He also asks Delilah to help Samson - Matty knows everyone will help Delilah Metcalfe, but many would send Samson packing.

Dee's husband, Neil Taylor ran off with another woman, leaving Dee struggling financially but too proud to tell her family. The local police are PC Danny Bradley, Sergeant Gavin Clayton, and semi local DCI Frank Thistlewaite. Delilah ends up putting a lot into helping Samson and they both solve the mysteries the town brings them. Each of the three first on the scene - Ana, Gareth, and Rick - is a later suspect and each contacts Samson and Delilah to help prove their innocence. One I really should mention is that, unbeknown to Samson, Delilah's ex husband Neil wants his dog Tolpuddle back.She thinks her life is in danger, but seems muddled with a story about things being stolen and turning up, and it's all a bit nebulous. Chapman has created a superb cast of characters with all the domestic gossip, rivalries, fallings-out and community spirit anyone who grew up in a small town will love and recognise. Along the route Samson starts getting threatening letters telling him to leave things alone, and someone takes a pot shot at him and Delilah. The seventh novel in international bestseller Julia Chapman’s Dales Detective series, perfect for fans of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club and M.