The Cotswold Mysteries Collection: A Cotswold Killing / A Cotswold Ordeal / Death in the Cotswolds / A Cotswold Mystery

by Rebecca Tope

The Cotswolds are filled with idyllic and quintessentially English the perfect, peaceful location for recently widowed Thea Osbourne to house-sit, if perhaps a little dull. Until a body turns up. At the centre of the tragedy, Thea discovers that the cosy facades hide than their share of secrets. Includes the first four instalments in the Cotswold Mysteries A Cotswold Killing, A Cotswold Ordeal, Death in the Cotswolds and A Cotswold Mystery.

1176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 12, 2013

About the author

Rebecca Tope is best known as the author of over twenty crime novels. She has also recently produced the e-book entitled 'The Indifference of Tumbleweed'. She has every intention of continuing with the murder stories, as well as a variety of other kinds of fiction.

She has experienced many different kinds of work in her time - running antenatal classes, counselling troubled couples and being an office girl for an undertaker, for example. There were also several years monitoring the output of dairy cows, as well as every sort of task associated with book publishing. In 1992, she founded Praxis Books, a small British press.

She lives surrounded by trees she has planted herself, tending her own sheep.

Reviews

[jcwolfkill · Rating 3 out of 5]

This author is easy to read if a bit tedious and occasionally random at times. Book three is the best of the four. She does not know how to write an effective ending. Sometimes, the real mystery is how the author gets published.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice, cozy mysteries set in the Cotswolds. Likeable protagonist.

[Sandy McKenna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have the complete series of The Cotswold Mysteries, with only one left to read.
Each book has a new story in a different location. They are all well written, and a great read.
These books can be recommended to lovers of murder mysteries without all the gore.

[Nancy]

Main character house sits with dog.