When Simone Hollingsworth fails to turn up at bell-ringing practice, her fellow campanologists are neither surprised nor concerned. Only the ever-vigilant Brockleys, the Hollingsworths' neighbors, suspect the worst. "Satisfies on every level".--"San Francisco Chronicle".
Faithful Unto Death is the fifth installment of Caroline Graham's popular Chief Inspect Barnaby Novels, and the basis for a TV episode in the Midsomer Murders series.
When bored young housewife Simone Hollingsworth misses bell-ringing practice-her latest effort to find something to do-no one is surprised. In fact, if old Mrs. Molfrey, her neighbor, didn't report it to Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby, Simone's disappearance might have gone unrecorded in Fawcett Green. But ever Barnaby isn't concerned-until a body is found.
Soon Barnaby is uncovering the passionate entanglements beneath the placid surface of Fawcett Green-and perhaps jeopardizing his career. Now, if he misconstrues the clue buried in Simone's garden-and a subtlety of human behavior his experienced eye should spot-a brutal killer may go free...
“"Barnaby applies his logical mind to the many false clues in this cunning case, but it takes all his acquired insights into human psychology to distinguish the killer from all the other cuckoo characters who live and thrive in the mad, mad world of Fawcett Green." -- The New York Times Book Review "Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie." -- The Sunday Times of London "Satisfies on every level: wicked humor, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp characterizations." -- Philadelphia Inquirer”
"Barnaby applies his logical mind to the many false clues in this cunning case, but it takes all his acquired insights into human psychology to distinguish the killer from all the other cuckoo characters who live and thrive in the mad, mad world of Fawcett Green." --The New York Times Book Review
"Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie." --The Sunday Times of London
"Satisfies on every level: wicked humor, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp characterizations." --Philadelphia Inquirer
Caroline Graham lives in Suffolk, England. She has an M.A. in writing for the theater and has written several plays for both radio and theater, as well as the Chief Inspector Barnaby novels, which have been adapted for television..
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