Betty Rowlands (1924–2020)
Autore di A Little Gentle Sleuthing
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Betty Rowlands was a mystery writer, born in 1923. She began writing when she was in her mid-sixties. In 1988, she won the Sunday Express/Veuve Clicquot Crime Short Story of the Year. That was the beginning of her writing career. She continued on, writing over twenty-five books. Her series included mostra altro the Melissa Craig mysteries and the Sukey Reynolds mysteries. She was an active member of the Crime Writer's Association. She became known as "the queen of cozy crime." On July 29, 2020, she died at the age of 96. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1924
- Data di morte
- 2020-07-29
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
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- Opere
- 26
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 576
- Popolarità
- #43,502
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 29
- ISBN
- 175
The bones of a young woman who had disappeared about two months earlier are found in the woods near Melissa's cottage and she joins with a young journalist to find out the truth behind the murder, on the pretext of researching things for her latest novel. Her journalist friend is full of ideas on how to involve Melissa more deeply in the investigation.
Her research takes her to a ladies daytime strip club, a beauty salon, and eventually to confront the murderer, although she doesn't realise until nearly too late who he is.
Whenever in doubt she thinks about what her sleuth in her books would do.
In the meantime another local is murdered, and Melissa makes friends with a vegetarian living next door.… (altro)