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Epitaph: A Gripping Murder Mystery Kindle Edition

by Anita Waller (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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An English pensioner and PI is drawn into a baffling case that strikes close to home in this cozy mystery by the author of the Kat and Mouse series.

Doris Lester has taken a well-deserved break from work. She’s planned a holiday with her best friend Wendy on a journey across the Yorkshire and Derbyshire Dales. But before they depart, a letter arrives that stirs up trouble and memories of the past. Soon Doris and Wendy are drawn into the mystery surrounding a troubled family, a missing person and gruesome murder.

When Doris and Wendy join the investigation, intriguing revelations about Doris’s life come to the surface, which shock even those closest to her. Step by step they uncover secrets that could tear a family even further apart. Can Wendy and Doris solve the mystery? And if they do, will their lives ever be the same again?
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Anita was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire and has lived all her life there. She has three adult children and seven grandchildren ranging in age from 9 months to 21 years. Anita and Dave have been married almost 49 years! She wrote Beautiful in 1985 and had it accepted for publication. They were the contract stage when the publishing house went into liquidation. Like many another book it ended up in the loft until two years ago when she resurrected it, retyped all 100,000 words (it was originally written on an Amstrad 8256 and all she had was a hard copy!) and sent it off to Bloodhound Books. She is now retired from my life of being a Patchwork Tutor and HGV driver's wife and concentrates on patchwork for the pleasure of it and writing. She started writing at around the age of 8 - she clearly remembers writing 'novels' at that age which were actually short stories split into chapters! Anita's genre is murder - but murder with a good reason behind it!

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09C6MWRJK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloodhound Books (August 12, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 12, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1529 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 292 pages
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Anita Waller

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Anita Waller was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in 1946. She married Dave in 1967 and they have three adult children.

With many books to her name, she feels she has finally realised her dream. She writes mainly psychological thrillers, but was commissioned in 2018 to write a cosy mystery series, the Kat and Mouse trilogy. By November 2020 this will have grown to five books, plus a spin-off standalone novel called Epitaph, featuring Doris, one of the characters from the series. This series has now led on to a spin-off series, the Connection Trilogy, with books entitled Blood Red, Code Blue and Mortal Green. All these books, which will number twenty by the time Mortal Green is available, have been published by Bloodhound Books.

In 2021 Waller signed a five book deal with Boldwood Books, and currently has five published books with them: One Hot Summer, The Family at No.12, Fatal Secrets (the first in a new series set in Sheffield), The Couple Across the Street, and Fatal Lies, the second in the Forrester series. The Family at No.12 reached #2 in the Amazon Kindle charts.

She is now in her late-seventies with a new Boldwood contract, happily writing most days and would dearly love to plan a novel, but has accepted that isn’t the way of her mind. Every novel starts with a sentence and she waits to see where that sentence and her characters will take her. If writer's block intrudes, be sure there will be a death.

In her life away from the computer in the corner of her kitchen, she is a Sheffield Wednesday supporter with blue blood in her veins!

Her genre is murder - necessary murder.

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Cynthia Bowers
5.0 out of 5 stars enjoyable read
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2023
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As a lady of a certain age myself 😀 it was fun to read about the older gals out solving mysteries. To be honest this was my favorite of the books so far.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Well=Paced Mystery
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2020
Many thanks to the author / Bloodhound Books for the digital copy of this crime fiction/cozy. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

PI Doris Lester and her friend Wendy have planned a unique well-deserved vacation. They will be visiting graves sites of famous people.

But before they start, Doris receives a letter from a woman she has never heard of. What the letter states is that the sender is the daughter of Doris' husband ... only he's been dead for 15 years. Doris doesn't have happy memories of her marriage, she always knew he had cheated on her, she just didn't know long it had been going on. Much to her surprise, she finds that there was a second daughter...also fathered by her husband.

A distressed family, a missing person, and a horrifying murder have Doris and Wendy working alongside the police investigation. What Doris learns about her past, as well as her present, will change her life forever.

As someone of comparable age with Doris and Wendy, I found them skillfully drawn. There is much humor, loving friendship, and I loved how the author portrayed these 70-somethings as real people who still have a lot of living to do. The mystery is well paced, steady, with twists and turns that lead to an unexpected ending.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Love a Cozy Mystery? This one is for you!
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2020
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Just finished Anita Waller's new mystery EPITAPH. I've read several of her other books and one in this series and she's done another great job weaving a tale. She brings back the indomitable Doris Lester, a modern day Miss Marple, and sets about solving a crime and giving the police much needed help. I didn't guess who the culprit was and Ms. Waller does an excellent job creating tension — especially in the last quarter of the book where I was dying to find out WHO DID IT? Of course, I got it wrong. Well developed characters both large and small and a nice friendship and banter between Doris and her friend and partner in crime, Wendy. Great read. High recommend!!!
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Susan M
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2022
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Great plot line. Brings Grace Lucas into Doris' life for a short time. Doris has additional friends from unlikely areas.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2020
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When I read Anita Waller's books I don't plan to do anything else because I know I am not going to be able to put the book down until I have finished it. This book was no exception. I definitely recommend it.
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Bobbi Jo Wagner
4.0 out of 5 stars great story
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2020
This is my second book by this author. I enjoyed it just as much as the first one if not more. This is a mystery-suspenseful story that is fast paced and kept me turning pages to the end. This is a well written story that has characters that made the story pop for me. The characters made the story easy to read and I had no issues connecting with them. This is a story about Wendy and Doris. They find themselves in the middle of an investigation of a missing person and a nasty murder. As they uncover family secrets will they ever be the same again? I really enjoyed this book and it made a great afternoon read. Strong characters that bring the twists and turns that left me sitting on the edge of my seat. I highly recommend this book.
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Mrs. K
5.0 out of 5 stars Epitaph
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2020
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A cozy mystery with Doris searching for the truth. I love this character, she's smart, feisty, and funny. I didn't know who the murderer was until very near the end. The story was interesting and a good read.
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Mary J Rainbolt
5.0 out of 5 stars Great characters
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2020
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I love the characters and the story was interesting. Kept my interest throughout.
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Lady J
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in Canada on March 8, 2024
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This books right from the beginning draws you in. The characters are well developed and the dialogue keeps you reading. The ending was unexpected in so many ways. I would recommend reading this book.
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Tara Kapur
5.0 out of 5 stars Murder Mystery in a lovely setting
Reviewed in India on November 18, 2023
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Love the characters, the setting and the story!

Waiting to read the Kat and Mouse series now

Recommend Anita Waller ..
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5.0 out of 5 stars What can I say? It's a YES from me
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2020
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Joining the club of others who have given this book a 5 star review. First , I have to say that there are better and more imaginative words to describe a book than "gripping" which is well over used. Book publishers take note!
Some may rate this a "cosy" and thus avoid and if so they are doing themselves a grave disservice. This book is far from cosy, exploring , as it does the darker side of the human psyche. The strength is in the "normality" of the characters. These are everyday people with the usual plethora of problems from marital strife to bullying and everything in between. I absolutely loved the relationship between Doris and Wendy. It was a true bond of many years. The characters were all fully developed and felt real. The plot was well crafted and unravelled at a teasing pace to keep you turning those pages. Part of the end was a bit of a sucker punch but I did have a premonition that it was going to happen but still wasn't fully prepared. That's part of the skill of Anita Waller's writing, no padding or extraneous material just a gradual disentangling of multiple threads through to the denouement .
A thoroughly enjoyable read
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dave-gerfuffin
4.0 out of 5 stars another good ‘un
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 1, 2023
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I’ve recently discovered this author and have now read 4 of her books. I really enjoyed this - good characters straight off and it didn’t go where I thought it would! Recommend it
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Kindle CustomerAmisha
5.0 out of 5 stars Unputdownable.
Reviewed in India on October 3, 2021
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A gripping novel ,very well written and intriguing. Thoroughly recommended to suspense/ thriller lovers. Keeps you guessing till the end!
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