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Prunella Pearce Mysteries Books One to Three, The Prunella Pearce Mysteries

The first three “warm, cozy crime capers” in the witty series starring a librarian turned detective by the author of the Constable Mavis Upton novels (Jill’s Book Cafe).

This three-in-one volume includes:

Murders at the Winterbottom Women’s Institute
Librarian Prunella Pearce has begun a new life in the village of Winterbottom, where there’s little social life to be had aside from the meetings of the Winterbottom Women’s Institute. But excitement ensues when the group is due to elect a new president—and the nominees begin dropping like flies . . .

Murders at the Montgomery Hall Hotel
Prunella and her friends are spending Halloween at an old estate that’s been converted into a hotel. But between a mysterious impostor and some dead bodies, Pru realizes they may need a little assistance from her detective associate to crack the case . . .

Murders at the Rookery Grange Retreat
Pru is preparing for her wedding. But after one of her friends suffers a suspicious accident at a rest home, she is on alert. And when one of the residents is asphyxiated with a pillow, no one can rest easy . . .

Gina Kirkham

Gina was born in the late 1950s to a mum who frequently abandoned her in a pram outside Woolworths and a dad who after two pints of beer could play a mean Boogie Woogie on the piano in the front room of their 3-bed semi on the Wirral. Being the less adventurous of three children, she remains there to this day - apart from a long weekend in Bognor Regis in 1982. Her teenage years were filled with angst, a CSE in Arithmetic, raging pimples and Barry White. Marriage and motherhood ensued, followed by divorce in her early thirties and a desperate need for a career and some form of financial support for herself and her young daughter. Trundling a three-wheeled trike along a leafy path one wintry day, memories of her favourite author Enid Blyton, ginger beer and solving mysteries along with her lifelong passion to be a police officer, excitedly gave way to an epiphany. And thus began an enjoyable and fulfilling career with Merseyside Police. On reaching an age most women lie about, she quickly adapted to retirement by utilising her policing skills to chase after two granddaughters, two dogs and one previously used, but still in excellent condition, husband. Having said goodbye to what had been a huge part of her life, she suddenly had another epiphany. This time it was to put pen to paper to write a book based on her experiences as a police officer. Lying in bed one night staring at the ceiling, Gina's alter-ego Mavis Upton was born, ready to star in a humorous and sometimes poignant look at the life, loves and career of an everyday girl who followed a dream and embarked upon a search for the missing piece of her childhood.
 
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