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TROUBLE IN THE COTSWOLDS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Rebecca Tope | 320 pages | 19 Mar 2015 | ALLISON & BUSBY | 9780749014537 | English | London, United Kingdom Trouble in the Cotswolds PDF Book Phil and Thea are blamed for stirring things up. Never puts two and two together, generally has to be spoon fed the glaringly obvious answer. The only spark i got from reading it was annoyance at the character for being so whiny and negative. And generally granny is highly regarded by lots of friends in Blockley. Everyone hated Stevie, but surely not enough to kill him. No trivia or quizzes yet. Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography. She is house sitting in Stanton, looking after ferns, a blond alsation dog, and some pet rats, but is so poorly that she neglects her duties. As well as looking after the house, Thea has also to look after Harriet's reptiles. This is book ten in another of the series that I am reading because I bought the books, so I may as well read them. However, when two people show up brutally murdered the following afternoon, even when battling a fever Thea finds herself thrust into the middle of yet another Police investigation. Sort order. Caz is brilliant at her job - a future high flyer. Highly recommended. In this she is accompanied by her dog Hepzie. The twelfth in the Cotswolds house-sitter series moves the romance of the protagonist and her undertaker admirer to long-awaited fruition. Was it simply because the book was not aimed at me - because it's a woman's book, aimed at women, by a female author writing about a female detective from the female perspective? Thea is not very popular - is she some mad woman, is it a joke? Thea has to leave her family to grieve to take up her latest commission in Little Slaughter. Follow podcast failed. Thea is surrounded by them. Here she is pet minding too - two dogs, some ferrets, cats, and a talkative parrot. Who killed Stevie, and why, is the subject of this book. Drew is not coping, and his young business partner Maggs is having to carry the business, and look after Drew's two young children. In the end, of course, all is explained. Jan Ziff rated it it was amazing Feb 03, Although Caz Barkley is an orphan who never had family support, she has to explain to Thea what an offer of support from her mother might mean to Jessica. We sort of had a clue in the previous book when Thea was so unsympathetic when Phil slipped a disc, and could hardly move with severe back pain. In book one, the investigating officer was D. She is still seeing Superintendent Phil Hollis, missing him terribly when he is not there, but wasting time with silly arguments when he is there - e. Thea mis-fuels her car, and so is stuck without transport. She lives on a smallholding in Herefordshire, with a full complement of livestock, but manages to travel the world and enjoy civilization from time to time as well. Whilst house sitting Thea meets Harriet's neighbour Donny, an old man apparently in very poor health, and someone obsessed about his own death, perhaps even considering suicide. Very soon it is apparent that there is a lot of sexual chemistry between Phil and Thea. I also quite liked the set up - a beautiful widow has time on her hands, agrees to house sit whilst occupants go on holiday, and whilst comfortably off, admits that the house sitting money comes in handy too. Usually when she house sits, a murder takes place very near by, Super. This time I knew what to expect - I don't think I am the target audience for this series - and strangely I wasn't so annoyed. Jun 03, Pam Baddeley rated it really liked it Shelves: crime-fiction , suspense. Drew's home circumstances are tragic - Thea is a welcome escape! Trouble in the Cotswolds : Murder and intrigue in the stunning Cotswolds. Nestled in the hills of the Cotswolds, the village of Duntisbourne Abbots is a well-kept secret Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. I guess who killed Juliet is the main story. Trouble in the Cotswolds Writer Please try again later. Chapter Fourteen. I will need to read on to see if Thea and Drew do get married - and continue to find dead bodies. I enjoyed the characters, the setting and the flow of the story. So now, we see Thea and Hepzie - Ariadne doesn't like dogs - and Phil through another person's eyes. Of course Thea's dog Hepzie is still around, but now mostly in the background. And there are some very strange characters knocking at her door after the murder of a neighbor. Thea thinks she might set up a local history group to get to know people, and uses this as an excuse to call round to the Buntings. Richard wants Thea to prepare an inventory of the house contents - Rita seemed to be a bit of a hoarder. As per the previous three books, there is a murder - the next door neighbour Julian, whom Thea has never met. Phil Hollis. His wife, Karen, died 4 short months ago, and Thea doesn't want to intrude. Next the girlfriend gets murdered. Having spent his life taking vitamin pills and herbal remedies, it seems almost ironic that he has succumbed to a heart attack She invariably finds a dead body nearby, pokes her nose into other peoples' business, and helps the police solve the mystery. Something you'd like to see on our website? He is a green burial undertaker, married with two young children, but sadly his wife Karen has been ill for 3 years, and now is in a coma, and not expected to come out of this coma. Graham has some sort of problem where he shouts all the time, but even apart from this, he does not seem the friendliest of people. So as usual we have Thea indulging in a lot of self analysis and it all goes round and round in great detail and at great length. I hope a new one is really soon! Thea turns to local resident Dennis Ireland for safety but Dennis, as with the other villagers, may not be as safe as first appears and Thea wonders who she can trust to help her survive the festive season. Error rating book. I will definitely check out other books in this series. Maggs and Den are running Drew's first burial site, and the Broad Campden one is the new venture - a fresh start for Drew and his children, and Thea. Rebecca Tope was born in on New Years Day! Interesting book and makes one wonder about the advantages associated with house sitting! This time Thea is joined by her daughter Jessica who is a police probationer, but is facing a disciplinery hearing for losing control under provocation, retaliating and hitting a child. Aug 13, Bev Taylor rated it really liked it. Family life should trump amateur detecting. I did like the who killed "Grace" when Thea was asleep downtairs story, and read on to find out who did it and why. Highly recommended. Thea is still ill - she faints twice - and mis-dials D for Drew instead of D for Thea's brother Damian. Trouble in the Cotswolds Reviews Mr and Mrs Montgomery are off on holiday, but have left Thea with a somewhat unusual commission - Thea has to look after granny Gardiner, who seems to be suffering from some form of senility. By the end of the book, Thea and Drew have at least kissed - hopefully they will become a couple in the next book. Specifically, Thea is in Snowshill, house sitting for a french teacher Yvonne Parker who seems hopelessly vague. Dee MacDonald. Sadly this book was only OK - nothing dire, but nothing to enthuse over either. She is barely coherent. If he gives up on a wife, breathing but inert mentally, will they switch off her life support? These books seem reasonably popular, so if you like that sort of thing, don't let me put you off. Easy read, fairly predictable and similar format to previous book. Rebecca Tope. When murder arrives in the village she is gets involved out of curiosity, mostly because it happens right next door to where she is staying. She had been rescued by a police sergeant she had met on a previous case. It's about a house sitter Thea Osborne, and her dog Hepzie, ruminating about life and mostly death as she house sits in lovely rural settings in the Cotswolds. Almost all that has changed in this book, because Thea and Drew are now married - Thea is now Thea Slocombe - and she and Drew and his two children Stephanie and Timmy live in a big house in Broad Campden. Adding to library failed. She is a practising pagan - a bit like a white witch - who beleives in Nature, the soil, the seasonality of life, and tries to tune into age old practices and beliefs, and live in harmony with them. Rating details. The next day, when Thea is coming down with a nasty cold that eventually turns out to be influenza - there is an epidemic in the country generally - Cheryl turns up to visit her unexpectedly. The previous book in this series, i. James, Carl's brother, is also a police superintendent. We are introduced to Thea, in her early forties with a BA in History, who is still in pain, mourning the death in a car accident of her huband Carl a year ago.

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