DEAD IN OXFORD a gripping crime thriller full of twists (Doug Mullen Mystery Book 3)

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Author : Peter Tickler
Genre : Fiction

Summary : Doug Mullen has bad luck when the Oxford women he meets encounter foul ends. Now the private detective is the prime suspect in a murder investigation.

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Author : Peter Tickler
Genre : Detective and mystery stories

Summary : An art student on-the-make sets up a "suicide" plaque, and within hours Sarah Johnson has plunged to her death from the top of the multi-story carpark, right in front of his prying camera. Sarah turns out to have a history of mental illness, so to DI Susan Holden it looks like a straightforward case of suicide, but when Jake Arnold, the last person Sarah called, turns up dead in the River Isis, Holden's preconceptions are thrown into disorder. Now she and her collegues are plunged into a race against time. Firmly set in the side-streets of Oxford, from Cowley Road to the Kassam football stadium, from riverside pubs to a mental health day-center, Blood on the Cowley Road builds to a startling climax.

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Author : Simon Mawer
Genre : Fiction

Summary : Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn't understand Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her and a young RAF officer attempts to bring her the normalities of love and affection but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the development of the Atom Bomb. Where, in the complexities of peacetime, does her loyalty lie? When a mysterious Russian diplomat emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War she sees a way to make amends for the past and to renew the excitement of her double life. Simon Mawer's sense of time and place is perfect: Tightrope is a compelling novel about identity and deception which constantly surprises the reader.

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Author : Diane Goldstein
Genre : Social Science

Summary : Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.

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Author : Peter Tickler
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Summary : A BODY FOUND IN THE WATER EXPOSES DARK FAMILY SECRETS AND INFIDELITY "The best mystery I've read this year. Doug Mullen is a brilliant character. I loved the Oxford setting, and the clever story kept me guessing till the end." Chris Child A gripping British mystery full of twists and turns Private detective Doug Mullen discovers a body floating in the River Thames. He doesn't tell the police that he knows who it is, and when he is hired to investigate the dead man, matters get very complicated. Mullen is used to tracking down cheating husbands, not ruthless killers. The victim turns out to have been playing a complex game of deception with more than one woman. As Mullen gets closer to tracking down the killer, he finds himself in grave danger. Unless he can crack the case, Detective Inspector Dorkin may pin the crime on him, or those with secrets to hide may put him out of circulation. Mullen fights for his life as this fast-moving mystery reaches its stunning conclusion. If you like Angela Marsons, Colin Dexter, Ruth Rendell, or Mark Billingham you will be gripped by this compelling crime fiction writer. DEAD IN THE WATER is the first in a new series of detective thrillers featuring Doug Mullen - ex-army, ex-runaway, struggling human being - and recently set up as a private detective, with his only work coming from tracking down cheating husbands. PAST PRAISE FOR BEST-SELLING AUTHOR PETER TICKLER 'He has a wonderful gift of creating geographically factual settings for his fictional characters' -Oxford Times 'Deliciously thrilling and wildly unpredictable' - Oxford Today

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Author : Peter Tickler
Genre : Detective and mystery stories

Summary : When Doug Mullen rescues a mother and daughter from a multiple car-crash on the M40 near Oxford, a video taken by an onlooker briefly turns him into a reluctant hero. But public exposure via the Internet brings its own problems. There is no accounting for who will see you and what that may lead on to. Mullen is a private detective, house-sitter, and reluctant dog-sitter. He is also a bit of a soft touch when he encounters damsels in distress. While trying to support the damaged Natalie Swan and her rebellious daughter Ellie, he finds himself a man in demand. A missing refugee, threatening letters, and an unexpected death are just the beginning. As Mullen tries to meet the needs of all those asking for his help, he--and his westiepoodle Rex--swiftly finds himself sucked into a web of deceit and murder. There are lies to be uncovered and the truth to be found, but sometimes it is hard to know which is better.

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Author : Harry Justin Elam
Genre : Social Science

Summary : Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics