Date with Evil: A delightfully witty and charming mystery set in the Yorkshire Dales: 8 (The Dales Detective Series, 8)

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The author has brought to life the North Yorkshire landscape and populated it with wonderful characters. Only problem is the next book isn’t released until April next year and because of all the well explained references to previous stories I don’t think starting at the beginning of the series will work.

Following on from Date with Betrayal this new novel delights with its combination of beguiling charm and witty ingenuity. The local police are Sgnt Clayton, PC Danny Bradley, DCI Frank Thistlethwaite, from a neighbouring force, and DC Jess Green, the liaison officer from the Met whom Samson doesn't trust. This is book 4 in a very enjoyable series set in Bruncliffe, a little village in the Yorkshire Dales.Will be sorry that there will be no more of this series, but will watch out for anymore books that Miss Chapman might bring out. Arty catches Samson hiding in a ginnel watching Taylors, works out what is afoot, and soon the Fellside Hall pensioners are in on the act too. The ongoing story of Delilah's ex husband Neil reclaiming her beloved dog Tolpuddle does come to a malodious ending - I guess we all saw how Samson was going to save Tolpuddle way before Samson, but it was set up neatly, and almost didn't work. An ex makeup artist at Fellside Hall disguises Delilah as new temp Denise so successfully that she fools Samson and brother Will (but not brother Ash). PAF, on laisse tous les attachants personnages de Bruncliffe avec une suite que nous aurons imaginé.

Just as animals can be imprinted by humans if they spend too long with them, so I became imprinted with this amazing part of the world. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. I just read and read til my eyes were sore 😀Utterly brilliant, exciting and a great way of wrapping up all the loose ends. Mostly Julia has worked as a teacher of English as a foreign language, but she has also dabbled in bookselling, pawnbroking, waitressing, and on a supermarket checkout till.

J'aime d'amour les personnages, que ce soit Samson et Delilah qui font vibrer mon coeur ou tous les perso secondaires qui sont follement attachants. I'm also so glad the publishers have stuck with Yorkshire's own Emily Sutton as the cover artist, her style is a perfect fit for these stories, whimsical, cosy, and full of love for the dales, great choice! Still, I feel that this is a series that I would advise is best to read from the beginning, which is something that I hope to do in the upcoming months.

We now have what seems an obvious crime fiction misdirection with the introduction of three gypsies - Manfri, Leon, and beautiful and single Kezia - on the scene and camping near Pete Ferris's caravan. One I really should mention is that, unbeknown to Samson, Delilah's ex husband Neil wants his dog Tolpuddle back. The Dales Detective series is set in the fictional Dales village of Brunscliffe which is based on Settle. Metcalfe is the owner of her very own Dales Dating Agency, and at the moment, it’s a business that isn’t exactly paying off.Rick Procter, a local property developer (and much worse) swindled Samson's dad Joseph out of the family Twistleton Farm - Rick is now running a cannabis farm there. The vague threat that novel ends on, presumably signposting the way for book number 9 in the series, is that the sprightly but elderly members of the local retirement complex might lose their home. It should have been caught on CCTV but Samson and Delilah found that the CCTV was not working and it was often not working.

The book also opens with the funeral of local poacher Pete Ferris who had discovered the cannabis farms, and was blackmailing Bernard Taylor. I loved Delilah and Samson together, they turn out to be a really good combo – good for each other and their business. There are lots of personal lives stories, and subplots, but the main one is of course the Samson / Delilah relationship. The seventh novel in international bestseller Julia Chapman’s Dales Detective series, perfect for fans of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club and M.Les personnages et les intrigues sont bien développés, on s'attache à ce village et à ses habitants. In the eighth novel in the Dales Detective series, Date with Evil , Samson and Delilah are about to discover that all of their new cases may be connected to a network of evil that seems to be surrounding Bruncliffe. It’s book eight of the series so Julia dispenses with most of the backstories that some authors would use to pad out their stories. Much, much later in the story, Tolpuddle will turn up at the gypsy camp looking for help when Samson and Delilah are trapped in a freezer six hours away from death, and we will learn if the gypsies are thieves or heroes. Dee's husband, Neil Taylor ran off with another woman, leaving Dee struggling financially but too proud to tell her family.