Madeleine Brooks Mysteries

A vacant manor-house.A missing owner.A potential heir.And a freshly-minted estate agent.Madeleine Brooks is learning on the job. What she doesn't need is a grouchy seller. What's worse, he doesn't yet own the grand manor. But with a failed marriage and bills to pay, Maddie needs this listing. She has to establish the heir's right to sell. And that means finding his great-aunt Beryl, the lawful owner, dead or alive.Death at Cherry Tree Manor catapults Maddie into the role of an amateur detective in an Oxfordshire village full of past histories and deep secrets.Love Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries? Cosy crime novels? Stories set in an English village? Then get your copy of Death at Cherry Tree Manor now! Grab a cup of coffee and find out whodunnit.... Tannis has worn many hats: occupational therapist in her early days, psychologist, university researcher and lecturer at various universities and medical schools and now author. She's written many first drafts which are safely stored on her hard drive (perhaps, one day, to be revised…) but she has published four novels and two books of short stories. Two of the novels are in paperback as well as ebook format. She lives with her husband in various places: two homes in New Zealand - a town house in Auckland and an adobe beach house on an isolated bay in Northland - and, to take full advantage of the northern summer, a tiny summer cottage (off the grid and boat-access only) on a remote lake in North-western Ontario in Canada. All are places perfect for writing. To get her stress levels down, Madeleine Brooks switches careers from a professional probation officer dealing with criminals and all that entails to estate agent in the English countryside dealing with ordinary people. Except they are often not ordinary and she finds herself deep in solving the whys and the wherefores of missing people, bodies long buried or murders most foul. If you love English mysteries set in quaint Oxfordshire villages with characters who walk off the pages into your life, then you'll enjoy Madeleine Brooks, Estate Agent (and frequently, Amateur Detective) in her new career.Stress free? Not exactly….

Meet Madeleine Brooks. Ex-probation officer. Ex-wife. Now transformed into an estate agent in a delightful but not-so-sleepy English village.Today she's listing a renovated cottage at the edge of the Chiltern Hills unaware of its recent and sinister past. Unaware of being manipulated. When a body is discovered, she finds herself catapulted into solving a murder with tentacles that reach deep into her own family.Beautifully paced, loaded with endearing characters and with just the right amount of tension, DEATH AT VALLEY VIEW COTTAGE takes us into the heart of traditional British murder mystery territory – and reminds us how we love being immersed in a story, in its characters – especially when it is done so well.This is the second book in the popular Madeleine Brooks Mystery series, although each can be read as a stand-alone. Tannis has worn many hats: occupational therapist in her early days, psychologist, university researcher and lecturer at various universities and medical schools and now author. She's written many first drafts which are safely stored on her hard drive (perhaps, one day, to be revised…) but she has published four novels and two books of short stories. Two of the novels are in paperback as well as ebook format. She lives with her husband in various places: two homes in New Zealand - a town house in Auckland and an adobe beach house on an isolated bay in Northland - and, to take full advantage of the northern summer, a tiny summer cottage (off the grid and boat-access only) on a remote lake in North-western Ontario in Canada. All are places perfect for writing. To get her stress levels down, Madeleine Brooks switches careers from a professional probation officer dealing with criminals and all that entails to estate agent in the English countryside dealing with ordinary people. Except they are often not ordinary and she finds herself deep in solving the whys and the wherefores of missing people, bodies long buried or murders most foul. If you love English mysteries set in quaint Oxfordshire villages with characters who walk off the pages into your life, then you'll enjoy Madeleine Brooks, Estate Agent (and frequently, Amateur Detective) in her new career.Stress free? Not exactly….

Peggy Fox, a childhood friend of Madeleine Brooks, is in shock. She has just lost her daughter and son-in-law in a horrific car accident and her ex-husband to a drug overdose. She must maintain control as she has custody of her pre-school grandson, the sole survivor of the crash. His other grandfather plans on buying them a house with a garden. Finally, something good happening?Not quite.The police are investigating the ex's death. Peggy's soldier son is investigating the car crash. The other grandfather is a domineering autocrat. Maddie is entangled in every aspect and is compelled to investigate. But the deeper she delves, the more she discovers hints about past secrets. Is a sinister game being played out? And is Maddie being treated as a pawn? If so, they don't know Madeleine Brooks.This fourth book in the Madeleine Brooks Mystery series maintains the unique blend of fascinating intrigue with a depth of emotion not often seen in the mystery genre. If you love a traditional British mystery with a strong female lead, and a murder mystery full of twists and turns, you'll love Death in Lachmore Wood... and the Madeleine Brooks Mystery series! Tannis has worn many hats: occupational therapist in her early days, psychologist, university researcher and lecturer at various universities and medical schools and now author. She's written many first drafts which are safely stored on her hard drive (perhaps, one day, to be revised…) but she has published four novels and two books of short stories. Two of the novels are in paperback as well as ebook format. She lives with her husband in various places: two homes in New Zealand - a town house in Auckland and an adobe beach house on an isolated bay in Northland - and, to take full advantage of the northern summer, a tiny summer cottage (off the grid and boat-access only) on a remote lake in North-western Ontario in Canada. All are places perfect for writing. To get her stress levels down, Madeleine Brooks switches careers from a professional probation officer dealing with criminals and all that entails to estate agent in the English countryside dealing with ordinary people. Except they are often not ordinary and she finds herself deep in solving the whys and the wherefores of missing people, bodies long buried or murders most foul. If you love English mysteries set in quaint Oxfordshire villages with characters who walk off the pages into your life, then you'll enjoy Madeleine Brooks, Estate Agent (and frequently, Amateur Detective) in her new career.Stress free? Not exactly….

She buys her dream homeOnly days later the body of her ex is found in her new garden.Murdered.Maddie's life as an estate agent in Oxfordshire is progressing. An old hippy contacts her about a gorgeous property but his former wife becomes her client, not him. Within days, his body is found on the property.Would her client kill her ex, then leave his body in her own garden? Maddie doesn't believe it, although the police do. But she does have questions. Did that shared hippy past have anything to do with the murder? And what about the murdered man's more recent rather racy reputation?Death at the Olde Woodley Grange is the 5th in the Madeleine Brooks Mystery series, an English village mystery, similar to those wonderful tales of amateur detectives written by Faith Martin and Frances Evesham. It's as if Miss Marple meets Midsomer Murders, but with manors and cottages and country houses. They are a delight to read, with a warm and intelligent main character who leaves no stone unturned in her quest for justice. Tannis has worn many hats: occupational therapist in her early days, psychologist, university researcher and lecturer at various universities and medical schools and now author. She's written many first drafts which are safely stored on her hard drive (perhaps, one day, to be revised…) but she has published four novels and two books of short stories. Two of the novels are in paperback as well as ebook format. She lives with her husband in various places: two homes in New Zealand - a town house in Auckland and an adobe beach house on an isolated bay in Northland - and, to take full advantage of the northern summer, a tiny summer cottage (off the grid and boat-access only) on a remote lake in North-western Ontario in Canada. All are places perfect for writing. To get her stress levels down, Madeleine Brooks switches careers from a professional probation officer dealing with criminals and all that entails to estate agent in the English countryside dealing with ordinary people. Except they are often not ordinary and she finds herself deep in solving the whys and the wherefores of missing people, bodies long buried or murders most foul. If you love English mysteries set in quaint Oxfordshire villages with characters who walk off the pages into your life, then you'll enjoy Madeleine Brooks, Estate Agent (and frequently, Amateur Detective) in her new career.Stress free? Not exactly….