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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
- A Novel Murder
Romantic Suspense
- A Murdered Earl
- Mischief in Madeira
- Veiled Destiny
- The Knot Garden
- Theft of Love
- Her Stolen Heart
- The Garden Prize
Historical Crime
Contemporary Crime by Marina Oliver
The Dodie Fanshaw Mysteries
A Novel Murder – the tenth Dodie Fanshaw mystery
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- Murder in real time disrupts a writing course for aspiring crime writers.
- Felicity's writing friend has to drop out of this week's course at an idyllic Welsh hotel, where two contrasting writers are to give help and inspiration to ten would-be crime novelists.
- Shy and uncertain of her talent, Felicity persuades Dodie to take up her friend's hotel booking, though she will not attend the course.
- They get to meet the aspiring crime writers, as well as the two tutors. Billy is a popular writer of both contemporary and historical novels, while Mary writes literary fiction much admired by the cognoscenti.
- Susan, one of the students has already had a novel published. George is a former police detective, who seems to know Eddie rather well.
- Soon there are divisions between Mary's fans who aspire to her literary style and Billy's who aim for more popular novels.
- Dodie and William's non-writing wife Phyllis watch from the sidelines as tensions arise.
- Valerie's room is invaded one night, the truth about Susan's novel emerges, and then there is a real murder.
- Ebooks: 2020 Smashwords ISBN 9780463759233 2020 Amazon 2021 Belgrave House ISBN 9781947812338
- Copyright © 2020, 2021 Marina Oliver
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Murder on the Beach – the ninth Dodie Fanshaw mystery
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- 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.
- Ebooks: 2017 Smashwords ISBN 9781311526175 2017 Amazon 2021 Belgrave House ISBN 9781947812307
- Copyright © 2017, 2021 Marina Oliver
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Murder at Comfree Abbey – the eighth Dodie Fanshaw mystery
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- 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.
- Ebooks: 2016 Smashwords ISBN 9781311816160 2016 Amazon 2021 Belgrave House ISBN 9781947812260
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Strangled in the Sauna – the seventh Dodie Fanshaw mystery
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- Why do the owners of 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 when 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 there is a murder and the plot thickens.
- Ebooks: 2015 Smashwords ISBN 9781310296512 2015 Amazon 2021 Belgrave House ISBN 9781610846646
- Copyright © 2015, 2021 Marina Oliver
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Murder in California – the sixth Dodie Fanshaw mystery
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- 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 one of the neighbours could have stolen the pistol.
- Asking questions and testing alibis proves difficult.
- Ebooks: Smashwords 2013 ISBN 9781301708840 Amazon 2013 2021 Belgrave House ISBN 9781610846639
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Stage for Murder – the fifth Dodie Fanshaw mystery
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- 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.
- Ebooks: 2013 Smashwords ISBN 9781301980796 2020 Amazon 2021 Belgrave House ISBN 9781610846622
- Copyright © 2013, 2020 Marina Oliver
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Fatal Slip – the first Dodie Fanshaw mystery
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- 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.
- Ebooks: 2011 Smashwords ISBN 9781465954268 2011 Amazon 2014 CreateSpace 2014 9781500333201 2020 Belgrave House ISBN 9781610846615
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A Cut Above The Rest – the second Dodie Fanshaw mystery
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- 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.
- Print: 2004 Severn House ISBN 0727861255 2006 Dales Large Print ISBN 9781842624838 2016 Lulu ISBN 9781326861438
- Ebooks: 2011 Smashwords ISBN 9781466097933 2011 Amazon 2020 Belgrave House ISBN 9781842624838
- Copyright © 2004, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020 Marina Oliver
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Riding for a Fall – the third Dodie Fanshaw mystery
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- 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.
- Ebooks: 2011 Smashwords ISBN 9781465795670 2011 Amazon 2016 Lulu ISBN 9781326732066 2020 Belgrave House ISBN 9781947812239
- Copyright © 2011, 2020 Marina Oliver
Presentation to a Dying – the fourth Dodie Fanshaw mystery
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- 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, including 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.
- Ebooks : 2011 Smashwords ISBN 9781465856371 2011 Amazon 2016 Lulu ISBN 9781326722012 2020 Belgrave House ISBN 9781947812246
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Romantic Suspense by Marina Oliver
Mischief in Madeira
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- 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.
- Ebooks 2014: Smashwords 2014 ISBN 9781311998675 Amazon
- Ebook 2022: Belgrave House ISBN 9781947812611
- Copyright © 2014, 2022 Marina Oliver
Veiled Destiny
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- 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.
- As she uses her local knowledge to evade her pursuer, 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? Threatening events follow 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
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781466065314 Amazon
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver
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The Knot Garden
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- 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?
- Ebooks: Smashwords 2011 ISBN 9781465796462 Amazon 2011
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
The Garden Prize
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- 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 Bridget Thorn
- Ebooks: Smashwords 2011 ISBN 9781465853752 Amazon 2011
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Theft of Love
Previously Her Stolen Heart
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- 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 under the pseudonym Bridget Thorn as Her Stolen Heart
- Ulverscroft 2003 ISBN 0708999611
- Ebooks: Smashwords 2011 ISBN 9781465812421 Amazon 2011
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Regency Crime
A Murdered Earl
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- 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.
- ebook: 2011 as From Knife to Noose by Whiskey Creek under the pseudonym Caroline Clare ISBN 9781603131377
- Ebooks: 2016 Smashwords ISBN 9781310334450, 2016 Amazon, 2021 Regency Reads ISBN 9781947812451
- Copyright © 2011, 2016, 2021 Marina Oliver