Fall of a Sparrow
Fall of a Sparrow, first of the Odds Bodkin's series, introduces DI Cora Bodkin, recently transferred from Scotland Yard to the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary. Karen Lawrence and Mary Kemp, retired Canadian professors, have immigrated to England and have settled in Coombe Gilbert, a fictional village in South Devon. Feeling culturally isolated and disconnected from the villagers, they are delighted when Betty, the grocer’s assistant, invites them to her wedding.
Throughout the ceremony and ensuing party, Karen and Mary witness but do not understand the undercurrent of tension and conspiracy upon which float the traditional processes of the nuptials.
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Throughout the ceremony and ensuing party, Karen and Mary witness but do not understand the undercurrent of tension and conspiracy upon which float the traditional processes of the nuptials.
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Chapel on the Moor
Instead of the secretly planned mulled wine and mince pies for their coffee stop, a group of local ramblers discovers a severed arm in the ruins of a Dartmoor chapel. Within a few hours, five more body parts are discovered on well known Dartmoor sites. In this second volume in the Odds Bodkin's Mystery Series, DI Bodkin once again uncovers hidden secrets in the Devon village of Coombe Gilbert, revealing a paedophile ring stretching across three generations.
The Doolally Gang
Hilldown Haven, a posh private care home, offers "luxurious accommodation for discerning seniors," generating expectations of safety, help and respect for its elderly residents. The Doolally Gang turns those expectations upside down and inside out.
The Doolally Gang concludes the Odds Bodkins Mysteries trilogy. Set in the gently rolling beauty of South Devon, between the stark granite monoliths of Dartmoor and the undulating coast of the English Channel, these novels explore how honest, hard working and law-abiding people can commit heinous crimes.
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The Doolally Gang concludes the Odds Bodkins Mysteries trilogy. Set in the gently rolling beauty of South Devon, between the stark granite monoliths of Dartmoor and the undulating coast of the English Channel, these novels explore how honest, hard working and law-abiding people can commit heinous crimes.
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My Name's Not Susie: A Life Transformed by Literacy
Hamilton here tells how, through the liberation of literacy, she surmounted her cruel beginnings and is today a professor of English at Indiana-Purdue University. As a young girl, she was described by various caretakers as a "bad apple." In her tortured early childhood, wanted by neither her birth nor her foster parents, she was given to rages that frightened her as well as others. Hamilton recalls a defining moment when she was eight and at relative ease with a caring, adoptive mother. To channel the child's incessant chatter, her schoolteacher mother suggested that she write what she could remember from the years of living in foster homes and orphanages, where she was given different names. That exercise, and the stories read to her by her mother, not only became the basis for academic success but also provided coping strategies for a rocky adulthood. Hamilton's story is stark and troubling; it is also homage to the role of literacy in the evolution of the self.
Manitoba MAID
Death is universal. Dying is personal. Aurelia knows death. Her father died when she was born. Her grandmother-mother died, with Aurelia’s help, when Aurelia turned 21. That same day, she fled the Long Plain Reserve and settled in Winnipeg. Now 75, she faces three crises: a diagnosis of aggressive lung cancer, eviction from her home of 54 years, and arrest for the murder of her best friend. Desperate, Aurelia locates one of twelve half-siblings she has never met. She makes three requests: help her arrange for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID); bring their brothers and sisters together the night of her death; and write her life story. Manitoba MAID tells that story.