A Place of Safety: a Chief Inspector Barnaby Novel

Jacket Description/Back: THE SMALLER THE TOWN, THE DEADLIER THE SECRETS... When sour Charlie Leathers and his dog disappear into thin air, his neighbors in the small, sleepy English village of Ferne Basset are more concerned about the dog than they are about Charlie. Everyone assumes that Charlie will show up...sooner or later. But nobody expects it when he shows up dead. With one man dead and a mysterious young woman missing, Chief Inspector Barnaby must race to uncover the secrets of love and greed hidden beneath a cozy village veneer. Now it seems that this safe little town is anything but -- and that one of its quirky inhabitants possesses the motive and the means to murder... Review Quotes: "Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie."--"The Sunday Times of London""Wonderful... A delightful tale... Told in graceful prose and populated with carefully drawn characters, "A Place of Safety" is a marvelous treat."--"The Denver Post""["A Place of Safety"] is cause for celebration... Thoroughly charming... Intensely pleasurable reading."--"Booklist"Biographical Note: Caroline Graham was born in Warwickshire, England. Her first Inspector Barnaby novel, "The Killings at Badger's Drift," was selected as one of the Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time by the Crime Writers' Association. Marc Notes: Subtitle from cover.; Previously published in Great Britain by Headline Book Publishing, a division of Hodder Headline PLC--T.p. verso. Publisher Marketing: Chief Inspector Barnaby investigates when the charming English village of Ferne Basset is turned upside down by the murder of local man who had recently witnessed the suicide of a young woman who was in trouble with the law. Reprint. Review Citations:

Booklist 08/01/1999 pg. 2033 (EAN 9780312244194, Hardcover)

Library Journal 09/01/1999 pg. 237 (EAN 9780312244194, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 09/27/1999 pg. 74 (EAN 9780312244194, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Kirkus Reviews 10/01/1999 pg. 1527 (EAN 9780312244194, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Ingram Advance 10/01/1999 pg. 143 (EAN 9780312244194, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2000 pg. 270 (EAN 9780312244194, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 372 (EAN 9780312244194, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Graham, Caroline Caroline Graham was born in Warwickshire, England. Her first Inspector Barnaby novel, "The Killings at Badger's Drift", was selected as one of the Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time by the Crime Writers' Association.