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Pauline Manders

Sleepy Suffolk UK wakes up to the news that a man has been found hanging in a reclamation yard near Bury St Edmunds. Within days, a bronze statue is stolen, and a broken automaton with a singing-bird mechanism arouses suspicion.

Can there be a connection? The action spreads from Thorpe Morieux through to Lavenham and Woodbridge. Chrissie, Nick and Matt, friends since a carpentry course at Stowmarket's Utterly Academy, find themselves caught up with a sinister network dealing in stolen metal and scrap.

Add a darkly brooding young man, a rundown pizza delivery service, a spooky car-wrecking yard, and DI Clive Merry, and you have another entertaining narration from AJ Deane. Pauline's quirky characters, previously encountered in Utterly: Explosive, Fuelled, & Rafted, fly by the seat of their pants through a plot filled with twists, deceit and bluff as the stakes are raised.

British English with a little light swearing. A British cosy crime mystery, thriller suspense with strong threads of friendship.

A J Deane

Ottobeast Publishing

The Utterly Crime Series

Utterly Reclaimed

Suffolk UK, 2012. Knotweed is invasive and ugly - and so is murder in Suffolk. A body is found near the railway line in Needham Market, and Nick Cowley's phone goes missing. Could anyone have guessed the repercussions?

Another body is discovered, and police investigations follow tenuous trails from Bury St Edmunds to Woodbridge, Felixstowe, and beyond. Murky innuendo takes its toll but is it sufficient motive for murder? Into this mix throw a turkey farm, winery, and a French flea market pot and you have the ingredients for a perfect murder.

Nick, Chrissie and Matt, friends since their Utterly Academy days, pull together as they face unpleasant truths and resolve their conflicting gut instincts. But hard evidence is required.

This is book 5 in the Utterly Crime Series, and can be read as a standalone.

Utterly Knotted

The Utterly Crime Series - The book series

The Utterly Crime Series - The book series

The Utterly Crime Series books in order

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