The Ivy Beasley Mysteries
The Hangman’s Row Enquiry
In the first of a new detective series to be published in May 2010, our old friend Ivy Beasley from Round Ringford days has moved to an old folks` residence in Barrington, a small village in Suffolk. Stroppy and autocratic as ever, she is busy shaping the place up to her standards, when Augustus Halfhide, tall, thin and oddly attractive in a wispy kind of way, moves into Hangman`s Row in the village. He is a mystery, determined to give nothing away about his past, and when he offers to see Ivy home from church one day, it is the beginning of an unlikely and fruitful relationship.
Alongside Ivy, Gus enlists Ivy`s much younger cousin Deirdre, and Ivy`s admirer, Roy Goodman, in setting up a detective agency called Enquire Within. Almost immediately, their first case makes its shocking appearance in the village. Another resident of Hangman`s Row, an old woman known for her sharp tongue and persecution of her hapless daughter Miriam, is found far from well on the floor of her cottage.
Enquire Within is in business!
This first of a series starring Ivy Beasley, can be pre-ordered on Amazon, Amazon UK and Barnes & Noble.
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My goodness, Ann. What’s happened to the colours of the cover page! It certainly doesn’t look like that on Amazon or on FantasticFiction. Is that the colour they will use?
Jaden
Absolutely right, Jaden! I will see what can be done about it. AP
That looks much better, I love the cover art for all your books. Fantastic. I myself am trying my hand at an English murder mystery and hope that someday if it can be published that mine can look just as amazing as that
Jaden
Thanks for telling me about the cover colours! Soon fixed by terrific website designer, Geoffrey Yeoh. Best of luck with your writing – keep at it!
Ann
I only came across the Round Ringford Stories a few months ago. I love them all and am at this moment finishing Mixed Doubles(sob, sob). Thank you Ann for your lovely weather descriptions; the rain,the cold and the mist ! While the temperature outside is 41 degrees Celsius here in Perth, Western Australia. I lived in Hartley in Kent for ten years so I can well remember it. Thrilled to discover The Ivy Beasley Mysteries. Does Ivy’s mother still ‘talk’ to her? In my second year of retirement from teaching I can’t wait to spend many hours reading. Thank you and keep these wonderful stories (and characters) coming.
Kind regards
Jopie Mantle
24 Carrick Road
Mount Richon
Western Australia 6112
I cannot tell you how much I’ve enjoyed the Lois Meade mysteries. Read everyone as soon as they arrived at the bookstores. Living in New Hampsire USA, I’ve dreamed of seeing the English countryside, and visiting the small villages.
Your characters in the Lois Meade series are so vividly drawn that they seem alive to me.
Thank you so much for many hours of enjoyment.
I was very interested to have your message, and to hear that you spent ten years in Kent – the garden of England, it used to be called. Up here in Northamptonshire, we are still having showers of snow (which my chickens loathe and the dog loves) and it is what we think of as bitterly cold! Ivy, now living in Suffolk, is hoping she has left the shade of her mother behind in Ringford, though we shall have to wait and see.
I expect you miss your teaching? My mother was an infant teacher, and went on teaching English to immigrant children after she was officially retired.
Very nice to hear from you. Best wishes – Ann P.
I have just obtained and read (one after the other) all you Lois Meade books from my local library except for the latest \Tragedy at Two\ (which I have ordered from the library). They are BRILLIANT. However, could you possibly tell me why are they not obtainable in PAPERBACK in the UK. I have search on the Fantastic Fiction website but only see that they are avaialble in hardback.
Best wishes and looking forward to more of Lois.
Linda
Dear Linda,
Thank you so much for your message. Sorry you are having trouble finding paperbacks of the Lois Meade Mysteries. I will do some ferretin` and get back to you. AP