Ann Purser puise son inspiration pour ses romans sur la vie à la campagne dans son charmant cadre de village. Avant de se tourner vers la fiction, elle a exploré diverses carrières, notamment le journalisme et la direction d'une galerie d'art, où elle a acquis des aperçus sur les relations humaines et les histoires. Sa passion pour la fiction policière l'a inspirée à créer la série Lois Meade Mysteries, chaque titre reflétant un jour de la semaine. Ses études diligentes et son engagement dans la vie de la communauté lui fournissent une matière riche pour ses histoires, qui résonnent souvent avec les expériences et les sentiments réels des habitants des zones rurales.
Frustration brews among the tenants of a terrace house in Tresham due to a noisy pet cockerel named Satan, owned by the stubborn Clem Fitch. As tensions rise and tenants decide to leave, Lois Meade's son Douglas steps in to rent the house, potentially changing the dynamics of the situation. This narrative explores themes of community conflict and family ties amidst the chaos of an unruly pet.
Set in the village of Long Farnden, the story follows Lois, who has tackled various challenges, including crime, as she cleans up the community. When her daughter's boyfriend is found critically injured, Lois embarks on a perilous investigation that uncovers a web of arson, local troublemakers, hidden agendas, and blackmail. As she navigates these dangers, she seeks to unravel the truth behind the crime that threatens her family and the village.
It's all smiles for the series that sweeps up sales-every day of the week. Working mum and owner of a cleaning business, Lois has just hired on the daughter of the Abrahams, an eccentric, reclusive family. But when strange letters and omens put everyone on edge, Lois wonders if the rumors about the Abrahams are the key to a terrible secret.
A friend has asked working-class mother and housecleaner Lois Meade to help crack a case. It looks like the handsome new choirmaster may have been poisoned. Soon, Lois finds herself untangling a web of secrets, bigotry, and intrigue-and can't let the culprits get away clean.
It may be the day of rest, but Lois Meade finds that not everyone believes in keeping it holy. A rash of strange occurrences in and around Long Farnden has Lois unsettled. Someone's been stealing valuable tack from the equestrian set, and then a local n'er-do-well is killed when a horse bolts in front of his van. With a new employee on her hands who may or may not be trustworthy, Lois hardly knows what to make of the disturbances, but it soon becomes clear that she'd better figure it out post-haste, or she herself may take a nasty tumble.
To her own credit, Lois’s cleaning business is really starting to clean up. So much that she decides to open up a new office in the neighboring town of Tresham, where she takes note of an unusually busy—and slightly sinister—storefront across the street. But business quickly mixes with Lois’s nose for sleuthing when she’s hired to clean the house of the pompous mayor, and then witnesses his honor’s limo picking up a dubious-looking package from the mysterious shop. There’s a filthy underside to Tresham, and when bloody murder starts staining the quaint town, Lois has to put her own life on the line to straighten things out…
From the moment his car stopped outside her door, Lois Meade didn't like the look of Reg Abthorpe who asked her to clean Uncle Herbert Everitt's house now that the old man had moved into an old folks' home. But no-one in the closely knit village of Long Farnden thought Mr Everitt to be that frail or infirm.
Working-class mum and housecleaner Lois Meade plies her sleuthing skills once again after discovering a dead body--dressed in a suit of armor--in a chapel.
In a brand-new mystery from the author of The Measby Murder Enquiry, the cantankerous golden years gumshoe Ivy Beasley keeps her mental faculties sharp with a strict regimen of crime detection. Apart from the unwelcome noise made by the morning cleaning crew, life has been quiet at Springfields Home for the Elderly. Too quiet, in fact. Ivy and her team of sleuths, Enquire Within, have resorted to finding lost cats, and Gus is even threatening to return to his memoirs. But no sooner does he attempt to put a winning phrase together than he receives a call from his ex-wife, Katherine, who is in desperate needs of a place to hide.Though Gus has a difficult time getting a straight answer from Kath—just as it was in their many years of marriage—something is most certainly afoot, and soon Enquire Within is back in business. This time they have their hands full, not only with missing pets, but missing jewels, and evidence of foul play uncomfortably close to their too quiet home…
Retiree Ivy Beasley, a college student? Interested in penning her memoirs, Ivy decides to take a creative writing course. But it’s hard to find time to put pen to paper when this current chapter is so full of lies, jealousy and murder… Rumors are flying around the village of Barrington about Mrs. Winchen Blatch, a reclusive widow living alone in her old farmhouse. In the past few weeks, the widow claims she has been tormented by ghostly visitations, so she hires Ivy and her fellow investigators at Enquire Within to get to the bottom of the mystery. Ivy’s new classes are very close to the widow’s farmhouse, perfect for combining studying and snooping… With each new clue—a dark chamber, a smoking cigar and an amorous lodger—it becomes harder to separate fact from fiction. And when the ghost is revealed to be flesh and blood, the lonely widow may be in more trouble than Ivy and her team can handle…