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|author=Gladys Mitchell
|title=Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Adela Bradley decided to spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan and his wife Deborah at their new home in the Cotswolds. Mrs Bradley is a well-known psychiatrist but she's also a respected detective renowned for her sharp powers of observation. She soon comes to hear the story of a local ghost, that of a country parson whose apparition can sometimes be seen slung over the gate leading to Groaning Spinney: the ghost will play a part in what is about to happen. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become the local squire with the acquisition of his property and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some of the locals as they visit to give festive wishes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784708321</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marjorie Orr
|summary= Two pages into this ''Crime Classic'' I had to check the first publication date. Reading the first two pages, it could easily have been written in 1967, or '87, or even (possibly as a pastiche) in 2017. Given that Bude's witty caper originally came out in 1947, it's slightly criminal that it's taken this long to resurface.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stephen Booth
|title=Dead in the Dark (Cooper and Fry)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's ten years since Reece Bower was accused of the murder of his wife, but the case never came to trial: Annette Bower's body was never found and although a murder can be prosecuted without a body there was an added problem here. Annette's father said that he'd seen his daughter a couple of days after she'd apparently disappeared. Had Annette simply left the marriage that was in difficulties or was something more sinister going on? Then, a decade later, Reece Bower disappears without trace. His new partner wants some answers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567582</amazonuk>
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