Read Series: Inspector Quantrill
by Author Sheila Radley
Fate Worse Than Death (1985)
Beryl Websdell’s garden gnome has been kidnapped and she has received a ransom note demanding jelly beans as payment and the gnome will be returned to her. At the same time her daughter disappears, three days before her wedding. Has her daughter been kidnapped as well? Beryl doesn’t believe so...
Who Saw Him Die? (1988)
For whom the bell tolls. — Cuthbert "Clanger" Bell, the town drunk, died exactly as everyone in Breckham Market had predicted: he staggered out of his favorite pub and into the path of an oncoming car. Three respected citizens witnessed the incident, and all called it an accident. But Eunice Bell...
This Way Out (1990)
Derek and Christine Cartwright live in a lovely house in the Suffolk village of Wyveling. When Christine's mother, Enid, arrives for a visit, Derek welcomes her warmly, but when an accident makes her a permanent resident, Derek's nightmare begins -- horrible dreams of strangling Enid to death. Wh...
A Talent for Destruction (1984)
The skull is buried in the snow. Little Justin and Adrian think at first that it's a football -- but footballs don't have eyeless, noseless sockets and grinning teeth. Detective Chief Inspector Douglas Quantrill is the first policeman on the scene. He finds the skeleton of what appears to be a y...
Death in the Morning (2006)
This is a mystery series opener, introducing Chief Inspector Douglas Quantrill who lives in a small village in Suffolk called Breckham Market. His right-hand man is DS Tait, who got his job by way of "graduate entry..., special police training and ... accelerated promotion," (8) and who feels he ...
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die (1992)
The book starts off with a fairly decent mystery, two oldsters vanishing without a trace, foul play is suspected. Then the writer fills most of the book with an autobiographical novel (which is by itself not that interesting), finishing up with a few chapters that take up where the story left off...