The Blackwoods Farm Enquiry
  • Published: 1 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780425261811
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $19.99
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The Blackwoods Farm Enquiry

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The next in the Ivy Beasley series, a spin-off of Ann Purser's popular Lois Meade mysteries, about a cantankerous retiree who's found a silver lining in her golden years as an amateur sleuth.

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…
 
  • Published: 1 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780425261811
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $19.99
Categories:

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Found Guilty at Five
The Wild Wood Enquiry
Foul Play at Four
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Praise for The Blackwoods Farm Enquiry

--Praise for the Ivy Beasley series:
"THE MEASBY MURDER ENQUIRY is a pleasant read, evoking St. Mary Mead and Miss Marple with its atmosphere of surface calm and hidden demons. It's a solid book, cleverly plotted, and tightly-structured, with all the makings of a perennial favorite." --Curled up with a Good Book
"Author Purser always comes up like roses with her many characterizations, great and small, including an estate manager named Beattie Beatty who gives Daphne du Maurier's Mrs. Danvers a run for her glowering expressions. . . . Purser creates a fast-clipped good time in a mystery that's more Agatha Raisin than Agatha Christie." --Shine from Yahoo.com
"Readers will find themselves knee-deep in this mystery in no time and putting those clues together in record time... Ivy is Miss Marple and Jessica Fletcher rolled into one, with a little more spice than sugar." Debbie's Book Bag
[G]rabbed me from the beginning and would not let me go... The mystery in The Wild Wood Enquiry was top notch. Two Lips Reviews
The Enquire Within team are quirky, funny and impossible to tie down, and Ann Purser's humour shines through on every page. English village mystery fiction at its best. Shots Crime and Thriller E-Zine
--Praise for the LOIS MEADE mystery series:
"Packed with satisfying twists and turns of plot and perfect for any mystery library." --Midwest Book Review
"[An] entertaining entry in Purser's series. The indomitable Lois is something of an updated Miss Marple." --Booklist
"First-class work in the English-village genre: cleverly plotted, with thoroughly believable characters, rising tension, and a smashing climax." --Kirkus (starred review)