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Frances Brody

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Leeds, The United Kingdom

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http://www.frances-brody.com

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Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

Frances is a fan of Golden Age mysteries.

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October 2010

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Frances Brody's highly-praised 1920s mysteries feature clever and elegant Kate Shackleton, First World War widow turned sleuth. Missing person? Foul play suspected? Kate's your woman. For good measure, she may bring along ex-policeman, Jim Sykes.

Before turning to crime, Frances wrote for radio, television and theatre, and was nominated for a Time Out Award. She published four sagas, winning the HarperCollins Elizabeth Elgin Award in 2006.

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Frances in Filey

Frances in Filey

The seaside town of Filey, a former fishing village on the east coast of Yorkshire between Scarborough and Bridlington, held its inaugural literature festival in May this year. I had the pleasure of taking part. There were walks and talks and a film about the life of Hannah Hauxwell, solitary elderly farmer who lived and worked alone in the Yorkshire Dales. The festival festival w

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Frances Brody’s books

Average rating: 3.79 · 29,165 ratings · 3,650 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dying in the Wool (Kate Shackleton, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 5,997 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Medal for Murder (Kate Shackleton, #2) 3.79 avg rating — 3,040 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder In The Afternoon (Kate Shackleton, #3) 3.87 avg rating — 2,548 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death of an Avid Reader (Kate Shackleton, #6) 3.88 avg rating — 2,271 ratings — published 2014 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Woman Unknown (Kate Shackleton, #4) 3.91 avg rating — 2,101 ratings — published 2012 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Death in the Dales (Kate Shackleton #7) 3.92 avg rating — 1,815 ratings — published 2015 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder on a Summer's Day (Kate Shackleton, #5) 3.88 avg rating — 1,755 ratings — published 2013 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death at the Seaside (Kate Shackleton, #8) 3.77 avg rating — 1,754 ratings — published 2016 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton, #11) 3.89 avg rating — 1,630 ratings — published 2019 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in the Stars (Kate Shackleton, #9) 3.71 avg rating — 1,370 ratings — published 2017 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Frances Brody (?)

“Some day I would like to write a textbook on how to be a female detective in a man's world. Rule Number One: try not to let your animosity show. Your career as an investigator will be short lived if you cannot hide your feelings when you dislike, distrust, or despise your interviewee.”
― Frances Brody, Dying in the Wool

tags: mystery-series

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“- 'He reckons you're one of these new women. You've deeply unsettled the female population by driving your car about and prying into other people's affairs.'
And here I was, chiding myself for being so entirely conventional. I rose in my own estimation.”
― Frances Brody, Dying in the Wool

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“At school she learned a poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade. One line came back to her: ‘Someone had blundered’. There was never a time when someone high up didn’t blunder. It was always them at the top of the heap who blundered and them near the bottom of the heap who paid the price.”
― Frances Brody, The Body on the Train: Book 11 in the Kate Shackleton mysteries

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Polls

Which English Mystery would you like to read with us during May? Please vote here by 21st April, and remember to look in the group afterwards, to see if your choice won! Good luck!

Death and the Maiden (Inspector Quantrill 1) by Sheila Radley

27 votes, 37.5%

Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser

18 votes, 25.0%

Servant of Death by Sarah Hawkswood

14 votes, 19.4%

Dying in the Wool by Frances Brody

13 votes, 18.1%

72 total votes

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Frances’s Quotes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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“The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.”
― Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time

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“The sky is darkening like a stain
Something is going to fall like rain
And it won't be flowers”
― W.H. Auden

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“I seem to remember sitting on a golden bench, and she started chattering about the sunset, or something. She seemed quite happy so I let her get on with it. Then she got hold of my hand and asked me what I was thinking about. So I said, "The treatment of anal fistulae".”
― Ruth Downie, Terra Incognita