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Inspector Peach Series

19 primary works • 20 total works
Detective Inspector Peach and Detective Sergeant Lucy Blake, in Lancashire, England

Book 1

Who Saw Him Die?
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3.50 · 230 Ratings · 17 Reviews · published 1994 · 6 editions
Tom Harrison has been a widower for seven years n…

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    Book 2

    Missing, Presumed Dead
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    3.89     · 154 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 1997 · 5 editions
    Detective Inspector ‘Percy’ Peach is not a natural…

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    Book 3

    To Kill a Wife
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    3.94     · 203 Ratings · 19 Reviews · published 1999 · 8 editions
    Maybe everyone would be better off without her… …

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    Book 4

    A Turbulent Priest
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    3.93     · 153 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2000 · 5 editions
    After five weeks of dry weather, the fields and ro…

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    Book 5

    The Lancashire Leopard
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    3.94     · 98 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2001 · 5 editions
    On the bitterly cold morning of January 6, a froze…

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    Book 6

    A Little Learning
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    3.85     · 118 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2002 · 6 editions
    One weekend in November, two students at the Unive…

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    Book 7

    Murder at the Lodge
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    3.97     · 195 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 2003 · 8 editions
    ‘They’re respectable people, known to me personall…

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    Book 8

    Wages of Sin
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    4.22     · 141 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2004 · 5 editions
    A young prostitute is murdered, and Inspector Peac…

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    Book 9

    Dusty Death
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    4.28     · 131 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2005 · 7 editions
    Everyone in Brunton is happy to see the decaying, …

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    Book 10

    Witch's Sabbath
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    4.24     · 131 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2006 · 5 editions
    Chief Inspector Percy Peach, Detective Sergeant…

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    Book 11

    Remains to be Seen
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    4.16     · 156 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2007 · 6 editions
    Police sergeant Jack Clark is existing in a world …

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    Book 12

    Pastures New
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    3.59     · 17 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2008 · 5 editions
    Peach and Blake investigate a new case of family m…

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    Book 13

    Wild Justice
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    3.59     · 17 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2009 · 10 editions
    A Peach and Blake Mystery - When Tamsin Hayes deci…

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    Book 14

    Only A Game
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    3.81     · 89 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2010 · 9 editions
    Foul play’s afoot at Bruton Rovers Football Clu…

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    Book 15

    Merely Players
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    4.13     · 85 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2011 · 10 editions
    A DCI Percy Peach mystery - Adam Cassidy is one of…

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    Book 16

    Least of Evils
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    4.14     · 148 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2012 · 7 editions
    A shooting on an estate puts DCI Percy Peach on th…

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    Book 17

    Brothers' Tears
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    3.95     · 129 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2013 · 7 editions
    Ex Ireland rugby player and now successful busines…

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    Book 18

    A Necessary End
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    4.00     · 92 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2015 · 5 editions
    The new DCI Peach mystery . . .



    Alfred Norbury …

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    Book 19

    Backhand Smash
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    4.01     · 108 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2016 · 5 editions
    DCI Peach and DS Northcott investigate a murder at…

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    Book 1-7

    The Inspector Peach Mysteries Books 1–7
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    4.43     · 1547 Ratings · 17 Reviews · 1 edition
    In this 7-book box set:

    BOOK 1: WHO SAW HIM DIE?
    Wid…

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