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The Lion and Unicorn Quest More Detail
The Lion and Unicorn Quest By Cecilia Peartree
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Can people learn to leave the past behind them, and move on? Flora has tried hard to do this but her wartime past as a secret agent just won't let go of her. The spymaster she knew then seems to be... More > pulling the strings again as an old adversary reappears in her life. Meanwhile her friendship with Oliver Quest goes through a difficult patch after a silly argument. He takes on the task of looking after a very special painting belonging to an important industrialist and she looks for a job as a typist. Soon they are both working on different aspects of the 1951 Festival of Britain, and they unexpectedly find themselves in the middle of a murder mystery. Even after a last-minute crisis in the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion is apparently resolved, they find their investigations have to continue. For a while it's as if the pieces from two jigsaw puzzles have got mixed up and will never be sorted out again.< Less
Death at the Happiness Club More Detail
Death at the Happiness Club By Cecilia Peartree
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Death at the Happiness Club is the 4th in a series of quirky mysteries set in a small town in Scotland. When the Happiness Club comes to town, Maisie Sue sees it as an opportunity to rediscover... More > romance, Jock McLean regards it with suspicion, and Jemima and Dave look forward to taking part in new activities with their friends. Amaryllis and Chief Inspector Smith go along to keep an eye on developments on their patch. As for Christopher, he misses the start of the excitement because of a prior engagement - walking the Fife Coastal Path with a figure from his past. But before anyone has had very much fun, it becomes clear that while the Happiness Club brings good times to some, to others it offers only desolation and death.< Less
Recycled, Encounters and Conclusions More Detail
Recycled, Encounters and Conclusions By Cecilia Peartree
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Welcome to the strange and yet somehow down-to-earth world of Pitkirtly! These three stories are set in a fictitious small town on the coast of Fife, in Scotland, and involve many of the same... More > characters as inhabit a series of full length mystery novels by Cecilia Peartree.< Less
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Murder in the Midi By Cecilia Peartree
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Isabelle doesn't expect a temporary summer job in the south of France to turn into a nightmare. But even before she seeks sanctuary aboard a boat on the Canal du Midi and meets the mysterious,... More > good-looking Nathan Freelander, her life is already at risk. And that's before she encounters his friend Josh.< Less
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A Reformed Character By Cecilia Peartree
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Can anyone ever really change? Christopher and Amaryllis ask themselves this question when a young man come to the door of their holiday caravan one wet evening. Their attempt to answer it takes them... More > and their friends on a dangerous journey from a Pitkirtly ice-cream shop to a knitting club and then on to an old railway yard for the deadly conclusion.< Less
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Reunited in Death By Cecilia Peartree
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When Jemima Stevenson helps to organise a Pitkirtly Homecoming day she has no idea that she has invited some of her long-lost cousins into danger.
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The Mountain and the Flood By Sheila Perry
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Scotland is independent and its people under the sway of a dictatorial government. Political dysfunction is mirrored by environmental catastrophe. This is the story of one family's fight to survive... More > in a time of rapid political change and natural disaster.< Less
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Crime in the Community By Cecilia Peartree
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Christopher thinks he has his life under control until the mysterious Amaryllis arrives in town, bringing chaos and confusion in her wake. This is the first in a series of mystery novels set in a... More > small town on the coast of Fife, not far from Edinburgh.< Less
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The Morrisons of Alpine Villa By Sheila Perry
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Scottish family memoir of the 1950s and 1960s

About Sheila Perry

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Sheila writes cosy mystery novels under the name Cecilia Peartree and other novels, memoirs etc under her own name.
When she isn't writing, she works in an art gallery, and when she isn't doing that, she sometimes creates props for an amateur theatre group.
Sheila has lived in Edinburgh for over twenty-five years and finds it an inspiring place, if too cold on occasion.

 

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