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New Cozy Mystery

Des Buckley's Braces Are Missing (A Les & Joyce Pinchen Investigation #1) by Colin Childs

England 1963: A cosy caper through the highways and byways of East Anglia.

But what is the vicar up to in the churchyard at dawn?

Who is the frosty woman in the remote farmhouse?

Why has a yacht dropped anchor, and where does the De Clare family fit in?

It’s a case for Les & Joyce Pinchen in the first of the Orton Magna Mysteries. Read more of this blog post »
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“Georges Montgolfiere was only too aware of his carbon footprint; to that end, he would only travel by car if someone else was driving.”
Colin Childs, Willows Rewilded: The Wry Adult Sequel to Kenneth Grahame’s ‘The Wind in the Willows'

“life cannot be lived with an enduring sense of fear,”
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