Charmian Daniels Books

Police Inspector Charmian Daniels knew that disorder was on its way to Deerham Hills. There was a murder of an unknown man and a robbery at a local furrier's. Was the strange woman who had recently come to town the catalyst for violence? Or was she just a symptom of it? There was nothing unusual about a woman police officer getting on with her job, but this time it was woman against woman... "I read on unstoppably.' THE TIMES

The coffin arrived by train. It was labelled urgent and addressed to the 'Deerham Hills Pathology Department', although nobody at the hospital seemed to be expecting it. So it waited. But the contents of this coffin were eventually to provide some busy and perplexing weeks for the local police, and especially for Sergeant Charmian Daniels, whose special province was coping with missing girls. And there had already been quite a spate of them that summer . . .

Winifred Eagle and Birdie Peacock, white witches of Windsor, are preparing for the opening of their new bookshop, which will specialize in crime fiction. So perhaps they are extra-sensitive to the mystery that is currently dominating local news - the disappearance of two Windsor women.But they would be even more disturbed if they knew what Chief Superintendent Charmian Daniels now knows - that four other women have gone missing from the surrounding areas. And that with every disappearance the local police have received a letter containing the victim's name and one of her possessions.

In the recently abandoned home of her neighbour, Alice Hardy, Mary discovers a horrific scene -- a young boy cowering in a cupboard and the body of a young man, stabbed to death, his face painted red, white and blue and his thymus gland expertly cut from his chest.The thymus gland is known in some animals as the sweetbread, an edible delicacy, -- and Mary receives a note that claims this murder is just a taster.In yet another unusual, darkly sinister mystery, policewoman Charmian Daniels seeks to uncover the truth while the killer has more work to do.