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Tread softly / by Marsh, JJ.;
Disheartened by her recent performance, Beatrice Stubbs takes a sabbatical from the Metropolitan Police for a gourmet tour of Northern Spain. In Vitoria, she encounters a distant acquiantance. Beautiful, bloody-minded journalist Ana Herrero is onto a story. Beatrice, scenting adventure, offers her expertise. The two women are sucked into a mystery of missing persons, violent threats, mutilated bodies and industrial-scale fraud.
Subjects: Fiction.; Stubbs, Beatrice (Fictitious character);
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Raw material / by Marsh, JJ.;
Bank Holiday weekend. Sunrise on a secluded Welsh beach and Beatrice Stubbs takes some innocent snaps. The scene contains more than just cliffs and seagulls, and someone wants those pictures destroyed. But Beatrice's mind is on other things. Assigned to the London Transport Police, she's pursuing the Finsbury Park Flasher, trying to pre-empt a serious sexual offence. While Beatrice is distracted, neighbour Adrian and companion Matthew decide to play Poirot, and investigate the mystery of the disappearing photographs. Amateur detectives and professional criminals are a dangerous mix. From deserted Pembrokeshire beaches, through the shadowy underpasses of North London, to the remote Irish countryside, Beatrice discovers the darker side of human nature.
Subjects: Fiction.; Stubbs, Beatrice (Fictitious character);
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Bad apples / by Marsh, JJ.;
"Acting DCI Beatrice Stubbs is representing Scotland Yard at a police conference in Portugal. Her task is to investigate a rumour - a ghostwritten exposé of European intelligence agencies - and discover who is behind such a book. Hardly a dangerous assignment, so she invites family and friends for a holiday. Days at the conference and evenings at the villa should be the perfect work-life balance. Until one of her colleagues is murdered. An eclectic alliance of international detectives forms to find the assassin. But are they really on the same side? Meanwhile, tensions rise at the holiday villa. A clash of egos sours the atmosphere and when a five-year-old child disappears, their idyll turns hellish. From Lisbon streets to the quays of Porto, Parisian cafés to the green mountains of Gerês, Beatrice realises trust can be a fatal mistake."
Subjects: Fiction.; Stubbs, Beatrice (Fictitious character);
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Cold pressed / by Marsh, JJ.;
Santorini. Turquoise seas, ancient ruins and beautiful sunsets. And a woman thrown from a cliff. The violent death shocks fellow passengers of the Empress Louise, a grand cruise liner packed with British tourists. For newly promoted Inspector Nikos Stephanakis, the case poses linguistic and cultural problems. His request for assistance yields unexpected results. DI Beatrice Stubbs, called in as support, flies to Greece. What with tension at home, the timing couldn't be better. She anticipates a few days in the sun and a swift resolution. But when an earlier death at sea proves suspicious and an elderly lady is killed in her cabin, terror spreads like contagion. Murder is aboard. And someone has Beatrice in his sights. From the Cyclades to the Dodecanese, Nikos and Beatrice pursue the killer and unearth a secret. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Subjects: Fiction.; Stubbs, Beatrice (Fictitious character);
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Human rites / by Marsh, JJ.;
"Adrian Harvey, London wine merchant, has lost the Christmas spirit. Someone is stalking him, stealing his post and vandalising his shop. When the police question him after an anonymous tip-off, he's more than anxious. He's scared. And who is that nun? Long time neighbour and friend DI Beatrice Stubbs is dispatched to Germany to investigate a series of apparently related art thefts, so Adrian seizes the chance to flee the city. He follows her to Hamburg to do some Christmas shopping and visit his ex. Yet the stalker is still on his heels. While Beatrice is on the trail of a violent gang of mercenary thieves, Adrian runs from danger to the remote island of Sylt. But danger follows and Adrian has run too far. From the icy streets of Hamburg, to the canals of Amsterdam, and the snowswept beaches of Sylt, Beatrice and Adrian discover how a virtue taken to extremes can lead to deadly sin."
Subjects: Fiction.; Stubbs, Beatrice (Fictitious character);
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Snow angel / by Marsh, JJ.;
"Love is a driving passion. So is hate.December in a small Devonshire village is the perfect time for a Yuletide festival, a Narnian wedding or a murder.Now retired, Beatrice is working on a book, planning a wedding and pretending she doesn't miss the cut and thrust of Scotland Yard.When a local celebrity dies in suspicious circumstances, Matthew encourages Beatrice to do some private investigating. Her enquiries reveal more than predicted and she discovers even her nearest and dearest are capable of deceit.A snowstorm hits the village and Beatrice chases a lead, throwing everyone's plans into disarray and threatening lives. The ancient forest conceals a primeval web of complex loyalties and lethal bonds.Angels protect their friends. But destroy their enemies.٢A classic village murder mystery, packed with comforts and crimes at Christmas with rural traditions at its heart٣ - Debbie Young, author of The Sophie Sayers Mysteries."
Subjects: Fiction.; Stubbs, Beatrice (Fictitious character);
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The woman in the frame / by Marsh, JJ.;
Crystalline Mediterranean waters lap the rocky northern coast of Mallorca, blessing the town of Deià with blood-orange sunsets, balmy night skies and the legacy of a poet. This former artists' colony now attracts the rich and famous looking to party in privacy. It's the perfect place for a honeymoon until your morning coffee is interrupted by a dead body. Who would want to murder the muse of a world-famous artist? Enter Beatrice Stubbs, ex-Scotland Yard detective turned private investigator, who never rejects a job if it involves good food and fine wine. Someone - an esoteric church leader, a wild-eyed ex-muse, the woman who forgets nothing, the artist's agent or that covetous neighbor - knows what really happened and why. But when locals and incomers point the finger at one another, how can Beatrice distinguish between lies, truth and artistic license? A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Stubbs, Beatrice (Fictitious character); Murder;
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Black Widow / by Marsh, J.J.,author.;
Private Investigator Beatrice Stubbs is bored of hanging around supermarkets, trying to prove infidelity or petty fraud. She yearns for a job with excitement, adventure and some continental travel. Lesson: be careful what you wish for. Enter one unexpected assistant, two commissions and her life spins from dull to deadly. While hunting an assassin in Budapest, gossamer traces lead to a respectable family business in France. Despite undercover infiltration of a Parisian perfumery and Bordeaux vineyard, her enquiries soon hit an impenetrable wall. The scale of the network emerges, Beatrice still thinks like a cop. She calls in a favor and burns her last bridge, leaving her with nowhere else to turn. Now, she and her assistant are defenseless against predators with many eyes. The web contracts, trapping them like insects. Entangled in the enemy's lair, her back against the wall, she can only pray she has not run out of friends.
Subjects: Fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Stubbs, Beatrice (Fictitious character); Murder;
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White night / by Marsh, JJ.;
If there's one thing Beatrice Stubbs hates more than weddings, it's wedding planning. So when a missing persons' case in Finland offers a chance of escape, she grabs assistant Theo and runs to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Two environmental protestors have disappeared after an anti-nuclear demonstration in Helsinki turned violent. Suspicions revolve around the energy companies and their controversial modular reactor. But the woman in charge is the same person who hired Beatrice to find the teenagers. Is this a serious job or a PR exercise? Using natural charm and acquired skills, Theo infiltrates the Gaia Warriors to discover passion, ideology and deep fissures in their foundations. Meanwhile, Beatrice tackles the energy giants, allies herself with the police and reports to her boss. Confidential information finds its way into the press. Her ship has sprung a leak. Family demands grow unbearable and she's run out of time. When a storm hits the Finnish coast, finding the young people becomes an emergency. On an insider tip, Theo rushes to the rescue. Beatrice is trapped. The police won't listen and a Nordic giant is on her tail. She has to place her faith in a new acquaintance and risk everything on a gut feeling. Or lose more than one life. Can Beatrice trust her right-hand man?
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Stubbs, Beatrice (Fictitious character); Murder;
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Behind closed doors / by Marsh, JJ.;
An unethical banker suffocates. A diamond dealer slits his wrists. A media magnate freezes in the snow. A disgraced CEO inhales exhaust fumes. Four unpopular businessmen, four apparent suicides. Until Interpol finds the same DNA at each death. Beatrice Stubbs, on her first real case since 'the incident,' arrives in Switzerland to lead the investigation. But there's more to Zurich than chocolate and charm. Potential suspects are everywhere, her Swiss counterpart is hostile and the secretive world of international finance seems beyond the law. Battling impossible odds by day and her own demons at night, Beatrice has never felt so alone. She isn't. Someone else believes in justice. The poetic kind.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; International finance; Murder; Stubbs, Beatrice (Fictitious character) ;
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