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MURDER IN THE MEADOW a gripping crime mystery full of twists (DI Hillary Greene Book 7) Kindle Edition

by FAITH MARTIN (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Looking for a brilliant bestselling murder mystery with a feisty female detective?

Meet DI HILLARY GREENE, a policewoman struggling to save her career and catch criminals.

Wayne Sutton is found dead by a stream in a beautiful meadow. His head has been bashed in and a red paper heart left on his body. The handsome young artist had a reputation as a ladies’ man.

DI Hillary Greene discovers that many wealthy married women were buying his paintings and taking ‘private’ art lesson from him. It appears that several of them might have wanted him dead.

Hillary also has a new detective sergeant, Gemma Fordham. Seemingly efficient and pleasant, she harbours a secret agenda.

Can Hillary get to the bottom of a complex case involving jealousy, love, and cold-blooded murder?

This is a crime mystery full of well-observed characters, which will have you gripped from start to finish.

Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Colin Dexter, or Ruth Rendell.

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT MURDER IN THE MEADOW:

“An excellent mixture of suspense, mixed relationships and a cracking murder mystery to solve.” Maggie M.

“A really gripping mystery with no shortage of suspects.” Barbara

“Reading another book in the DI Hillary Greene series is like meeting up with a beloved friend. ” Hannelore C.

“Excellent storyline and great main characters.” Stephanie C.

“. . . filled with twists and turns and surprises the reader never sees coming.” Linda’s Book Reviews

THE LOCATION
The pretty ironstone village of Deddington has an attractive and unusual church, antique shop and hotel, and several pubs known locally for their cuisine. Although not a tourist spot as such, it is a picturesque spot. Water meadows, such as the one where the body is found, are a feature of valleys in the area, and regularly flood in the winter time, adding nutrients to the soil, and making them especially lovely in the spring and summer, when they can flower quite spectacularly.

THE DETECTIVES
DI Hillary Greene
An attractive woman in her forties, Hillary Greene is a police officer of many years’ experience, and came up through the ranks. Consequently, she knows how the system works, and is fiercely loyal to the force without being blinkered to its faults. She is a long-standing friend of her immediate superior officer, 'Mellow' Mallow and enjoys a rather enigmatic relationship with the steely Superintendent Marcus Donleavy. Popular with the rank and file for her no-nonsense attitude and competence.

DCI Philip 'Mellow' Mallow
Mel appreciates Hillary's first-rate ability to solve her cases, and isn't happy about her harassment by the officers from York. Known for his sartorial elegance and laid-back manners, he has a sharp mind, and an eye for the ladies. A good friend and ally for Hillary in her recent tribulations, he's determined to keep his best investigator focused on the problems at hand.

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A REVISED EDITION OF A BOOK FIRST PUBLISHED AS BESIDE A NARROW STREAM.

DI HILLARY GREENE SERIES
Book 1: MURDER ON THE OXFORD CANAL
Book 2: MURDER AT THE UNIVERSITY
Book 3: MURDER OF THE BRIDE
Book 4: MURDER IN THE VILLAGE
Book 5: MURDER IN THE FAMILY
Book 6: MURDER AT HOME
Book 7: MURDER IN THE MEADOW
Book 8: MURDER IN THE MANSION
Book 9: MURDER IN THE GARDEN
Book 10: MURDER BY FIRE
Book 11: MURDER AT WORK
Book 12: MURDER NEVER RETIRES
Book 13: MURDER OF A LOVER
Book 14: MURDER NEVER MISSES
Book 15: MURDER AT MIDNIGHT
Book 16: MURDER IN MIND
Book 17: HILLARY’S FINAL CASE
Book 18: HILLARY’S BACK!
Book 19: MURDER NOW AND THEN
Book 20: MURDER IN THE PARISH

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Faith Martin was born in Oxford, and has spent all her life within twenty miles of the university city, even working at Somerville College for five years before turning to writing full-time. The author of the popular DI Hillary Greene novels, she also writes classic-style "whodunits" under the pen name Joyce Cato, but began her writing career as Maxine Barry, winning an award for penning romance novels. A popular writer for over twenty-five years, she has had nearly fifty novels published so far.

Gemma Dawson is a classically trained British actress born and raised in London, England. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, and went on to become one of their prestigious company members. She has remained in NYC, where she now works as an actress and voice-over artist. Gemma has acted on stage Off-Broadway as well as back home in the UK. She has lent her voice to documentaries, television shows, commercials, and major motion pictures. She has narrated over sixty audiobooks and approaches a title in the same way she would any stage role, with the objective of bringing the story and characters to life with authenticity, accuracy, and imagination.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B078WW1PBL
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Joffe Books crime, thriller and mystery (8 January 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 239 pages

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- 462 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books)
- 1,685 in Contemporary Women's Fiction

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Faith Martin has been writing for over 30 years, and JOFFE BOOKS have reissued all of her popular, multi-million bestselling DI Hillary Greene novels in new updated editions, and are set to publish the new novels in this continuing series. Box sets are available. JOFFE have also reissued all her modern but classic-style whodunits featuring amateur sleuth/travelling cook Jenny Starling and vicar's wife Monica Noble.

HARPERCOLLINS HQ, have published her series of 1960's-set Ryder & Loveday novels and she is currently busy writing a new series for HQ, set in the 1920's, which feature locked-roomed mysteries, the first of which, MURDER BY CANDLELIGHT is now available.

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Sasha

Faith Martin does it again with the help of Hillary Green

Reviewed in Australia on 5 January 2023

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The easy to read who done it always has a twist and turn that keeps you reading and turning the pages. Interesting characters and evolving story lines … the sub plots that link stories helps to give depth the series while each book is stand a lone with the main murder plot… always a fun read … keeps you hooked to the Ending always leaves you wanting more.

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Gary Rogers

Plots are good and the result is not immediately evident as in ...

Reviewed in Australia on 13 February 2018

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I am enjoying all of the DI/Hillary Greene stories. They are well written and not sensationalist as with some US writers. The processes used are much more in line with Australian methods and philosophy than the what we read and see from the US. Plots are good and the result is not immediately evident as in other books of the genre. Even Christie can be worked out in the first one or two chapters, these can't.

Reviewed in Australia on 28 January 2018

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This is a very good murder mystery with a strong sub-plot about the new DS. I could not put it down.

This was the first book that I read in this series. I am now going to start the series from the very beginning.

Martin carefully lays out the clues that lead to the murderer. Although the revelation of the murderer is a shock, the revelation follows from all that was described before.

In a good murder mystery, what seems to be extraneous turns out to be critical.

I cannot wait to see how the subplot of the new DS snooping around turn out.

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JB

Excellent structure of the story by being engrossing

Reviewed in Australia on 16 August 2018

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Excellent structure of the story by being engrossing, entertaining and somewhat bewildering as there are many twists and turns that make guessing the ending almost impossible. Faith writes with such a colorful phrase that I am forming in my mind the beautiful Oxford locations that she describes. The characters are structured realistically in a way that makes them believable.

Reviewed in Australia on 20 October 2019

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First book I've read for this author. Slow at the beginning but got more interesting in second half.

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Pam

A great novel in a great series. Very readable.

Reviewed in Australia on 14 July 2019

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This is the 7th novel in this series, and I am still engrossed with the characters as they flesh out. The entire series is a group of murder mysteries amid a mystery that is slowly unfolding. Just my type of easy reading. Highly recommend this series to all who are after a police procedural with a female at the head of investigations. No nonsense here, no sex story, just plain mystery bedlam. Read it and see.

Reviewed in Australia on 5 October 2018

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I have read all the series that are currently available on ebook. The characters are believable, the twists are often unexpected and I usually don't know "who done it" until the author wants me to. I recommend this series to all those who enjoy crime fiction that is not too dark or graphic.

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A typical 'keep 'em guessing until the last page' Faith Martin mystery

Reviewed in Australia on 14 March 2019

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I just love the Hillary Green books - full of mystery, wonderful descriptions, characters and the unexpected twists and turns - until the very end when the reader discovers she'd picked the wrong murderer!

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Glynn Young

Suspects and motives abound in this DI Hillary Greene case

Reviewed in the United States on 2 February 2023

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Detective Inspector Hillary Greene of the Kidlington Police in Oxfordshire has some interesting staffing problems. Her detective constable, who’d seemed to have been working out after his transfer under a cloud from London, might be having romantic issues. One detective sergeant, Frank Ross, is the policeman nobody wants. And a brand-new detective sergeant who appears young, energetic, and extraordinarily competent, but Greene senses she’s up to something.

And the new DS certainly is up to something. She’s a former squeeze of Greene’s deceased husband Ronnie, a bent cop who’d squirreled away millions in ill-gotten gains. And it’s those millions the new DS is after, even if she has to rifle through Greene’s purse and break into the canal boat where she lives.

And a new murder is reported. Two boys find a body in a meadow near the River Cherwell near Oxford. The victim is a young artist known for his multitude of affairs with middle-aged and older women. The red paper heart held in place by a large stone on the man’s chest suggests someone had finally gotten tired of the affairs. The medical examiner determines it was death by drowning – the victim was knocked out and held underwater.

Suspects and motives bound in “Murder in the Meadow,” the seventh DI Hillary Greene mystery novel by British author Faith Martin. Like its predecessors, it’s a standalone story, although to watch Greene develop her detective skills and manage the fallout from her crooked husband is a treat in and of itself. And to see this new detective sergeant up to what is clearly no good adds another layer of depth and interest to the story.

In addition to the DI Hillary Greene novels, Martin (a pen name for Jacquie Walton) has also published the Ryder and Loveday novels as well as the Jenny Sterling mysteries. Under the name Joyce Cato, she has published several non-series detective stories. Both Cato and Martin are also pen names for Walton. (Walton has another pen name as well – Maxine Barry, under which she wrote 14 romance novels.) A native of Oxford, she lives in a village in Oxfordshire.

Chris A.

Really Good Book

Reviewed in Canada on 15 May 2022

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As with all of these books this one was really good. It's a great mystery with very good characters and situations. I highly recommend it and all other books by this author.

Babs

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2023

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I started reading this series to try a new author and I was not disappointed. I've just finished number 7 and going to read the next one straight away. Great read.

Daniela Leonardini

Sempre allerta

Reviewed in Italy on 6 August 2023

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very enjoyable and well written

Reviewed in India on 24 April 2021

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It's a very enjoyable and well written book with impressive attention to details and language. Interesting so far. Fast paced, the officers personal lives are a nice personal touch and keeps the continuity of the series.

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