Julia Chapman is the pseudonym of Julia Stagg, author of the Fogas Chronicles set in the French Pyrenees. Why was Rick Procter meeting Mr Taylor and two foreigners in the lonely moors farmhouse in whose outhouse Nathan had sheltered ?

Just as animals can be imprinted by humans if they spend too long with them, so I became imprinted with this amazing part of the world. This works as a stand-alone but I think familiarity with past events would have added to my enjoyment. Developments in Samson and Delilah's relationship, as well as several others, are front and centre, but all while tying together a few seemingly unrelated jobs that have come into the Dales Detective Agency. His boss even sent a hit man to get rid of Samson, but all of Bruncliffe came together to save Samson after his dad Joseph O'Brien explained what really happened when Samson had first left Bruncliffe. She’s confident that this is a great move that is going to help her make some money and finally start getting those ends to meet.Dee too overcomes her dislike for Samson, and asks him to look at the murders of two of her clients. He joined the police, was promoted, and then worked undercover in the series crime unit (SOCO) and for the national crime agency NCA. J'aime d'amour les personnages, que ce soit Samson et Delilah qui font vibrer mon coeur ou tous les perso secondaires qui sont follement attachants.

Les personnages et les intrigues sont bien développés, on s'attache à ce village et à ses habitants. Samson had realised that all the cases Dales Detective Agency were working on were related, but now Delilah is missing.She spent the majority of that time as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language but also dabbled in bookselling, pawnbroking and waitressing. The Dales Detective series is set in the fictional Dales village of Brunscliffe which is based on Settle. Retourner à Bruncliff, c’est retrouver de vieux amis et la chaleur de ce petit village anglais mais pas seulement. With the threat of going into the red way too far looming over her head, Delilah is faced with a tough situation.

I love the way that the author weaves all of the different strands together to create a multi-layered mystery that covers some very serious issues. Thing She makes her characters easy to visualise, as well as each one being individual in their own right.With missing washing, produce thefts and inheritance investigations among others they have little time to spare when Mrs Lister visits and insists that her estate agent son, Stuart, is not backpacking abroad and is missing. Harry is attacked in the local golf club which is dowsed in petrol, and set fire, but Samson somehow manages to get Harry out, save his life, and becomes a local hero.