DISCOVER

MARINA OLIVER'S

CRIME AND SUSPENSE

NOVELS

MARINA OLIVER

Brief details about all Marina's crime and suspense novels in one easy-access ebook.

Discover Marina Oliver's Crime and Suspense Novels

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Brief descriptions of Crime and Suspense Novels by Marina Oliver, to make it easier to search for her novels without leaving your ebook reader.

Contents

The Dodie Fanshaw Mysteries

Fatal Slip

A Cut Above the Rest

Riding for a Fall

Presentation to a Dying

Stage for Murder

Murder in California

Strangled in the Sauna

Murder at Comfree Abbey

Murder on the Beach

Romantic Suspense

Mischief in Madeira

Veiled Destiny

The Knot Garden

Theft of Love

The Garden Prize

Historical Crime

A Murdered Earl

Contemporary Crime by Marina Oliver

The Dodie Fanshaw Mysteries

Fatal Slip – the first Dodie Fanshaw mystery

Flamboyant, wealthy, middle aged and several-times married Dodie Fanshaw is in Madeira to help make a film about her early life as a chorus girl and Hollywood starlet, and her husbands.

She is not amused when her son Jake, indifferent actor, appeals to her for money. Instead of going back to England he remains in Madeira, and contrives to alienate Dodie's friends, a rival actor, the Madeiran family who run the hotel where he had been staying, and a wealthy elderly woman with whom he is now living.

The situation becomes intolerable when Jake, drunk and abusive, comes uninvited to a party on a yacht on New Year's Eve, arranged to watch the annual Funchal firework spectacle.

Ebook ISBN 9781465954268 Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver Cover design by Debbie Oliver

A Cut Above The Rest – the second Dodie Fanshaw mystery

Which characters dared to write the author out of the script?

When Dodie Fanshaw went to stay with her daughter, Elena, in Markenlea, she had been expecting a peaceful, sedate village on the banks of the River Thames. But then a mermaid clambers out of the river and into Elena's garden.

Well, not a mermaid exactly – a mysterious, sopping-wet girl. Bizarre and intriguing though she is, it's only when Dodie and Elena call on Elena's neighbour, best-selling novelist Rick Wilbraham, that the real story unfolds. There they find Anna, Rick's girlfriend, hysterically clinging on to Rick's lifeless body.

Soon Rick's pleasant riverside garden fills up with his neighbours, ex-lovers, his publisher and agent, and Dodie can't help herself getting involved in this close-knit village.

A literary puzzle, but what genre is the motive? It could be Romance, might be Financial Thriller. And the mermaid? Well, that's just pure Fantasy . . .

Severn House 2004 ISBN 0727861255 Dales Large Print 2006 ISBN 9781842624838

Ebook ISBN 9781466097933 Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver Cover design by Debbie Oliver

Riding for a Fall – the third Dodie Fanshaw mystery

When Dodie Fanshaw goes to stay with her old friend Christine, she soon realises there are tensions, both in the family living at the Manor and the one where Elena is organising daughter Rebecca's wedding.

John, the young brother of Robert, who owns the Manor, hates his Uncle Michael, Robert's Trustee, and because he wants to be a detective, gains a reputation as a snooper.

Then there is a tragic death, but was it the right victim?

Plenty of people have both motive and opportunity, and Dodie is determined to discover the truth.

Ebook ISBN 9781465795670 Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver Cover design by Debbie Oliver

Presentation to a Dying – the fourth Dodie Fanshaw mystery

In two previous Dodie Fanshaw mysteries, the deaths could have been accidents, but she was sure they were murders and determined to unmask the villains.

This death is clearly murder, and the police investigate the many people who had grudges against the new Rector, from his family and his new parishioners.

The trouble is, most of them have no alibis, and not all of them tell the truth.

Dodie, visiting Sir William and Lady Talbot at the Manor, is able to discover the vital clue.

Ebook ISBN 9781465856371 Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver Cover design by Debbie Oliver

Stage for Murder – the fifth Dodie Fanshaw mystery

A suspicious death, a newcomer who becomes involved in village affairs, and Dodie Fanshaw on the trail of the truth, create a delicious cosy crime novel.

Catherine, widowed, returns to her home in the Lancashire hills. She and Ian Hanson, a retired newcomer, quickly become involved in village activities.

She goes to work for Martin, whose wife died in a tragic accident for which he was blamed, but exonerated, until the rumours start up again and Martin's mother, a former dancer with Dodie, asks Dodie to help.

Ebook ISBN 9781301980796 Copyright © 2013 Marina Oliver Cover design by Debbie Oliver

Murder in California – the sixth Dodie Fanshaw mystery

A stolen pistol plopping into the pool beside Dodie, former starlet, announces murder.

Instead of relaxing in the Californian sunshine, she and Joe Broughton, her ex-husband with whom she is staying in his house overlooking the Pacific, set out to discover who could have killed one of his neighbours and disposed of the pistol.

Dodie becomes aware of several tensions and jealousies among the neighbours.

They all deny having taken it, but only one of the neighbours could have stolen the pistol on the day they are avoiding an escaped Mexican convict whose sister is a maid in a nearby house.

Asking questions and testing alibis proves difficult.

Ebook ISBN 9781301708840 Copyright © 2013 Marina Oliver Cover design by Debbie Oliver

Strangled in the Sauna – the seventh Dodie Fanshaw mystery

Why do the owners of such fabulous jewels refuse to have the police called in when they are stolen? How could a thief open a bedroom safe?

Dodie has an aversion to exercise – and even more to massage. But she is persuaded to go to the Yorkshire health spa by Elena, whose boy friend is cousin to the owners.

Suspicion obviously falls on the maids, but other staff have legitimate reasons to visit guest rooms.

But how can they dispose of such well-known jewels?

Dodie and Elena question everyone, study lists of guests and staff rotas, but nothing makes any sense.

Then a murder and the plot thickens.

Ebook ISBN 9781310296512 Copyright © 2015 Marina Oliver Cover design by Debbie Oliver

Murder at Comfree Abbey – the eighth Dodie Fanshaw mystery

Who shot farmer Harris during a pheasant shoot?

He has built cow sheds and pig pens near the entrance to Comfree Abbey, and Sir Hugo and his new wife Deborah fear the smell will put off their prospective guests when they open the Abbey as a superior private hotel.

Dodie Fanshaw investigates all those at the shoot.

The police, however, seem to suspect Sir Hugo.

But almost anyone could have done it, and a few villagers had their own quarrels with Farmer Harris.

Ebook ISBN 9781311816160 Copyright © 2016 Marina Oliver Cover design by Debbie Oliver

Murder on the Beach – the ninth Dodie Fanshaw mystery

Dodie Fanshaw, escaping from London in January to stay with old Hollywood friends in Barbados, soon becomes involved with the local English and American ex-pat community.

Enjoying the weather, the friendships, and learning to sail, she doesn't expect murder.

But tensions are high, old quarrels are renewed, and several have motives but no one has an alibi.

Dodie sets out to solve the mystery.

Ebook ISBN 9781311526175 Copyright © 2017 Marina Oliver Cover design by Debbie Oliver

Romantic Suspense

Mischief in Madeira

You needn't be a golfer or yachtsman to enjoy stories where they play a part.

Rivalry in the golfing world leads to desperate measures, and romance. When Dominic Thorn's business selling golf equipment is threatened by former golfer Keith Livermore, he enlists the help of various friends in Madeira. There is Catherine, divorced wife of golfing star Justin O'Brien, her father, the Major, concerned when an old army buddy turns up, who knows of the Major's fling with Jackie, Livermore's mother. Then flamboyant Jackie arrives to complicate matters.

Catherine and her daughter Fiona, who has been ill and is therefore missing school, are visiting Catherine's parents who live in Madeira. She is wondering about the feasibility of running her business of making party clothes for children from the island. She is far from pleased when her former husband Justin O'Brien, golfing star, arrives, annoyed that she has taken Fiona out of England.

They meet Keith Livermore, drunk and obnoxious, at a party given by Dominic's parents. He was also a golf professional, but now runs an Internet business selling golfing equipment. He wants to take over a similar business run by Dominic Thorn from shops in Spain, Portugal and Madeira. When Dominic rejects him Livermore becomes aggressive.

Catherine's father long ago had a fling with a barmaid, Jackie, and is worried when an old army friend who also knew Jackie arrives. He does not wish his wife to know, but Jackie, Livermore's mother unexpectedly turns up. Life becomes more dangerous.

Ebook ISBN 9781311998675 Copyright © 2014 Marina Oliver Cover design by Debbie Oliver

Veiled Destiny

The twisting roads through the Chiltern Hills are lonely at night. When Sophie Stone realises the car behind is deliberately following her, she is angry, then afraid – the ordinary drunken yob doesn't carry a machete.

Desperately, she uses her local knowledge to evade her pursuer, just as handsome, enigmatic Luke Despard intervenes. Grateful to him, Sophie is convinced it was a purely random attack. Why should anyone want to kill her?

Her business partner, Pru Bailey, counsels caution. What do they know of Luke? A sequence of threatening events follows, and Sophie begins to suspect they are deliberate. Yet the only people who could benefit from her death are Pru, and Sophie's own half-brothers and sisters. Sophie's father was rich, but she cannot believe any of them would harm her...until there is a sudden violent death. Could it have been murder?

She turns to Luke, outside the family. With him she'll be safe, hidden from whoever is persecuting her. But then she almost dies. Now, Sophie cannot trust anyone but herself. Alone, she must confront the dangers shadowing her every move, and track down the killer – before she becomes the next victim.

Severn House 1997 ISBN 0727852469 Magna large print 1998 ISBN 0727852469 Magna Story Sound ISBN 1859031889

Ebook ISBN 9781466065314 Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver Cover design by Debbie Oliver

The Knot Garden

When Mr Greenslade, owner of Green Valley Garden Centre, falls from his wheelchair one night and is rushed into hospital, his daughter Tansy, talented interior designer, gives up the chance of a prestigious commission to go home to the Cotswolds and take charge.

Things have been going wrong at the Garden Centre, small irritating mistakes, petty vandalism, and what increasingly seems like major sabotage.

Is the incompetent manager responsible, or the charismatic Karl, whose company is trying to buy the centre?

Ebook ISBN 9781465796462 Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver

The Garden Prize

Melanie is determined to win the Garden Prize for her dead father's garden, which was his great joy.

She resigns her London job as a florist to run The Old Grange guest house for a year, so that the garden can be judged on the three weeks the village gardens open to visitors.

Her former boss Michael offers her a partnership and marriage, her sister Angela wants her to sell the house quickly, and unknown vandals attack her garden.

A guest, Paul Hunt, is sympathetic and helpful, but he is mysterious. Can she trust him?

Previously published as Love's Sweet Secrets by Marina under the pseudonym Bridget Thorn

Ebook ISBN 9781465853752 Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver

Theft of Love

Linda's new boyfriend Pete enjoyed looking at stately homes.

She was horrified, when they went to The Old Grange, where a big re-enactment weekend was taking place, to find he was planning to steal some of the antiques and expected her to help him.

Furiously angry, she found help from a knight in armour, and together they determined to foil the crooks.

Previously published by Marina under the pseudonym Bridget Thorn as Her Stolen Heart Ulverscroft 2003 ISBN 0708999611

Ebook ISBN 9781465812421 Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver

Historical Crime

A Murdered Earl

Most French aristocrats fleeing the revolution must earn a living.

Comte Luc de St Pierre wants to discover what happened to family jewels, and thinking the Earl of Redditch can help, obtains a position as the irascible Earl's valet.

When the Earl is murdered, Luke Peters, as he is now known, is suspected.

One of the revolutionaries, Bossard, is also seeking the jewels, and thinking Luke's young sister Sylvie has information, threatens her.

Luke must find the real murderer while evading Bossard and his thugs, and safeguarding Sylvie.

Copyright © 2016 Marina Oliver Cover design by Debbie Oliver ISBN 9781310334450

Ebook Previously published 2011 as From Knife to Noose by Whisky Press under the pseudonym Caroline Clare ISBN 9781603131377

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