Nicholas Rhea Books
Prize murder
While seeking the legendary Holy Trough of Blackamoor, DI Montague Pluke comes across a corpse; the dead man has been shot. It is soon established that the victim was a suspect in a murder investig...
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Constable on the coast
From time to time, Constable Nick must leave his blissful rural beat at Aidensfield to assist his hard-pressed colleagues in busier places. At the height of the holiday season, therefore, he finds...
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Constable on view
As Constable Nick of Aidensfield continues to patrol his varied beat in the picturesque countryside of the North Yorkshire Moors, he recalls the wisdom of his former training sergeant. Constables s...
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Murder under the midnight sun
"When DS Mark Pemberton embarks on a cruise to the Arctic Circle he simply wants to experience the spectacle of the Midnight Sun and the splendour of the glaciers and fjords. Then a man is found st...
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Constable beats the bounds
When Constable Nick leads a procession of villagers around Aidensfield's parish boundaries as part of an ancient custom, he realises his work involves practices that have little connection with his...
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Murder at Maddleskirk Abbey
After Constable Nick of Aidensfield and Heartbeat fame's retirement, he helped create a small private police force of monk-constables serving Maddleskirk Abbey and its adjoining college. The body o...
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A full churchyard
Detective Inspector Montague Pluke, of CID, is England's most superstitious police officer. With crime at its lowest level for years, he decides to conduct a cold-case review. But there are no majo...
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