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The Eskdale Episode: The intriguing English cosy crime series
304 pages, Hardcover
Published January 22, 2026
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Rebecca Tope
82 books219 followersRebecca Tope is best known as the author of over twenty crime novels. She has also recently produced the e-book entitled 'The Indifference of Tumbleweed'. She has every intention of continuing with the murder stories, as well as a variety of other kinds of fiction.
She has experienced many different kinds of work in her time - running antenatal classes, counselling troubled couples and being an office girl for an undertaker, for example. There were also several years monitoring the output of dairy cows, as well as every sort of task associated with book publishing. In 1992, she founded Praxis Books, a small British press.
She lives surrounded by trees she has planted herself, tending her own sheep.
She has experienced many different kinds of work in her time - running antenatal classes, counselling troubled couples and being an office girl for an undertaker, for example. There were also several years monitoring the output of dairy cows, as well as every sort of task associated with book publishing. In 1992, she founded Praxis Books, a small British press.
She lives surrounded by trees she has planted herself, tending her own sheep.
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February 6, 2026
Simmy is still in the throes of moving her floristry business from Windermere to Keswick and time is fast running out with only a couple more weeks before her second baby is due. Because her assistant Bonnie can’t drive, and Simmy has yet to find a new assistant to help out in the shop, Simmy has no choice but to deliver all the out-of-town orders herself.
One morning an envelope is left in the shop requesting a bouquet of a dozen yellow roses with sprays of gypsophila to be delivered as soon as possible to a Miss Jenna Jones who lives on a farm in Eskdale which will involve almost a three-hour journey. It seems an odd request as the sender insists that no message is included with the flowers, but as the money has been left to cover the costs, Simmy sets out for Eskdale. She discovers that Jenna lives with her mother and elderly grandmother on a remote rundown farm. The following day, Jemma’s mother is discovered murdered at the farm. Intrigued by the mystery of what appears to be a divided family that communicate by flowers, Simmy, urged on by Bonnie and her boyfriend Ben, sets out to find answers.
A Rebecca Tope novel always delivers a complex plot full of twists and turns that leaves the reader turning the page to find answers only to find more questions. In addition to a cast of familiar characters, we are introduced to an array of strangers, but credible though they seem, can they all be trusted? The Eskdale Episode is no exception to the rule. It will keep the reader on tenterhooks until the final satisfying ending.
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Reviewer: Judith Cranswick
For Lizzie Sirett (Mystery People Group)
One morning an envelope is left in the shop requesting a bouquet of a dozen yellow roses with sprays of gypsophila to be delivered as soon as possible to a Miss Jenna Jones who lives on a farm in Eskdale which will involve almost a three-hour journey. It seems an odd request as the sender insists that no message is included with the flowers, but as the money has been left to cover the costs, Simmy sets out for Eskdale. She discovers that Jenna lives with her mother and elderly grandmother on a remote rundown farm. The following day, Jemma’s mother is discovered murdered at the farm. Intrigued by the mystery of what appears to be a divided family that communicate by flowers, Simmy, urged on by Bonnie and her boyfriend Ben, sets out to find answers.
A Rebecca Tope novel always delivers a complex plot full of twists and turns that leaves the reader turning the page to find answers only to find more questions. In addition to a cast of familiar characters, we are introduced to an array of strangers, but credible though they seem, can they all be trusted? The Eskdale Episode is no exception to the rule. It will keep the reader on tenterhooks until the final satisfying ending.
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Reviewer: Judith Cranswick
For Lizzie Sirett (Mystery People Group)
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