Robert Barnard: 48 books

Book cover of A Brontë Encyclopedia
by Robert Barnard, Louise Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013

A Brontë Encyclopedia is an A- Z encyclopedia of the most notable literary family of the 19th century highlighting original literary insights and the significant people and places that influenced the Brontës’ lives. Comprises approximately 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries Defines and...
Book cover of Unholy Dying

Unholy Dying

A Crime Novel

by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013

England's celebrated, multiple-award-winning master crime novelist returns with a witty and poignant chiller about the evil of gossip and the sin of indifference. Father Christopher Pardoe is a good priest. He cares about his parishioners. He is also a human being -- and is thus saddled with man's...
Book cover of A Charitable Body

A Charitable Body

A Novel of Suspense

by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012

What an honor, to become a trustee of one of England’s distinguished stately homes. Yorkshire cop Charlie Peace’s wife Felicity is at first thrilled when she’s asked to help oversee Walbrook Manor, a recent gift to the nation. It’s not long, though, before both she and Charlie smell trouble....
Book cover of Bad Samaritan

Bad Samaritan

A Novel of Suspense Featuring Charlie Peace

by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013

When British policemen Charlie Pearce and Mike Oddie investigate the unsurprising murder of the village parish Lothario, they question Rosemary Sheffield, the vicar’s wife. Rosemary, who has recently “lost” her faith and been accused of immoral behavior with a Yugoslavian refugee, makes a perfect suspect. Another winning combination of plot, character, and wit from Barnard.
Book cover of A Murder in Mayfair

A Murder in Mayfair

A Novel of Suspense

by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013

Can the rich get away with murder, or is there always a price? Two days in May bring Colin Pinnock’s career to a peak. His party wins a stunning election victory and he wins a new government office. What a pity that among the congratulations pouring in lurks one grubby card asking: “Who do you...
Book cover of A City of Strangers
by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

In A City of Strangers, Barnard creates one of his most memorable characters ever; the dreadful Jack Phelan. Dirty, potbellied, vulgar, selfish, Jack is a man everyone loves to hate. And the rest of his family isn’t much better. The wife is slatternly, the teenaged children flirt with petty crime...
Book cover of Fete Fatale
by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013

The rigidly conservative town of Hexton-on-Weir, where twelve-year residents, such as veterinarian Marcus Kitteredge and his wife Helen, are still regarded as newcomers, sponsors a church fair which becomes the background for murder.
Book cover of The Bones in the Attic

The Bones in the Attic

A Novel of Suspense

by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002

Matt Harper, a television and radio personality and a former professional soccer player, has just bought Elderholm, an old stone house in Leeds in the north of England. It's ideal for him, his partner Aileen, and her three children. Even the attic space seems just right -- the perfect place for a...
Book cover of Death of a Salesperson
by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

Mystery and black comedy collide in this collection of sixteen stories with crime, wit, and twists to spare.
Book cover of Blood Brotherhood
by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

Old church meets new with a vengeance when a monk is brutally murdered at St. Botolph’s.
Book cover of The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori
by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013

The body of a young man, almost naked, found in the car park behind a Haworth restaurant marks the beginning of the case, and it is his identity that is the first puzzle for DC Charlie Peace and his superior, Detective Superintendent Oddie. But before long the puzzle that most concerns them is the...
Book cover of Out of the Blackout
by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013

With the Nazis bombing London on a nightly basis, many families sent their children to the comparative safety of the countryside. When the Blitz ended, the families came for their kids, but no one ever came for Simon Thorn. His name appears on no evacuation list, and none of his belongings offer any...
Book cover of School for Murder
by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013

Hilariously satirizing Britain’s education system, a mystery at the Burleigh School involves the inept leadership of its headmaster, Edward Crumwallis, and the evil pupil he chooses as his next headboy—sneaky sycophant Hillary Frome.
Book cover of Death of an Old Goat
by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

Professor Belville-Smith had bored university audiences in England with the same lecture for fifty years. Now he was crossing the Australian continent, doing precisely the same. Never before had the reaction been so extreme, however, for shortly after an undistinguished appearance at Drummondale University,...
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