Tag Archives: murder

Do you wear underwear with leather trousers? Is a tandem a useful weapon? How do you converse with the dead? Rousse investigates…

I sat with the Spanish holiday-makers in the leaky summer house looking out at the torrential rain. It had been pouring for weeks. Would the sun ever make an appearance this “summer”? Bored with the weather, I made a dash … Continue reading

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Belle is a defective detective

Twenty years after the affair ended, I was once again dating T. The truth of the matter was I was operating undercover. T’s extended family were trailer-park villains. One-by-one they were being killed off. I watched them closely over several … Continue reading

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Rousse forgives an assailant, advises on Emmental, and secures a job

TPR was either stupid, disobedient or both. He knew that the snow had forced us to switch our schedule: the previous night’s agreement was that instead of running outside at 10:30am, we would head to the gym after meeting a … Continue reading

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Belle’s bad hair day

One set of parents lived in New York. The other set in San Francisco. So who would the young couple spend Christmas with? This was NOT my type of film and when the girl tricked the boy into flying to … Continue reading

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Belle hearts big Eddie

My new boyfriend was on a larger scale than anyone else. I recognised him from TV – he was a Dallas, Texas murder squad detective called Eddie. If only he didn’t take up so much space in the room. I … Continue reading

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Two coffins for TPR (Rousse)

By the time that I realised what was going on my world had transformed into the climax of a Stieg Larsson thriller. To ensure that there was no doubt about the death of TPR two coffins had been ordered and … Continue reading

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Belle’s luck on the lottery

The reading of the lottery results was postponed so the announcer could mend my broken mirror. I was not the mysterious foreign ambassador who was invited to all the best possible parties, but I was travelling with her. What was … Continue reading

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Gary Richardson guides Rousse home

ETS got it into her head that if she kept digging with a spoon just outside the entrance to Tesco, she would discover what had happened to Jane, who had been missing for weeks. I knew that the body lay … Continue reading

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Campus-based crime caper (Rousse)

VJ warned us that there was a murderer in our midst: 8 students had disappeared mysteriously in the past 6 months. Signs of threats to School staff were the discovery of my black jacket in a pond (MR kindly paddled … Continue reading

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Belle in Wonderland

I saw the smallest caravan in the world. It was just big enough for a table that had two full-size custard tarts on it. Then I survived two murder attempts and found lots of mini Easter eggs under the TV.

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