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Kate Redman Mysteries #4-6
Kate Redman Mysteries: Snarl / Chimera / Echo
This is the boxed set of books 4, 5 and 6 of the bestselling Kate Redman Mysteries series, by crime writer Celina Grace.
SNARL (A KATE REDMAN MYSTERY: BOOK 4)
A research laboratory opens on the outskirts of the West Country town of Abbeyford, bringing with it new people, jobs, prosperity and publicity to the area – as well as a mob of protesters and animal rights activists. The team at Abbeyford police station take this new level of civil disorder in their stride – until a fatal car bombing of one of the laboratory’s head scientists means more drastic measures must be taken…
Detective Sergeant Kate Redman is struggling to come to terms with being back at work after a long period of absence on sick leave; not to mention the fact that her erstwhile partner Mark Olbeck has now been promoted above her. The stakes get even higher as a multiple murder scene is discovered and a violent activist is implicated in the crime. Kate and the team must put their lives on the line to expose the murderer and untangle the snarl of accusations, suspicions and motives.
CHIMERA (A KATE REDMAN MYSTERY: BOOK 5)
The West Country town of Abbeyford is celebrating its annual pagan festival, when the festivities are interrupted by the discovery of a very decomposed body. Soon, several other bodies are discovered but is it a question of foul play or are these deaths from natural causes?
It’s a puzzle that Detective Sergeant Kate Redman and the team could do without, caught up as they are in investigating an unusual series of robberies. Newly single again, Kate also has to cope with her upcoming Inspector exams and a startling announcement from her friend and colleague DI Mark Olbeck…
When a robbery goes horribly wrong, Kate begins to realise that the two cases might be linked. She must use all her experience and intelligence to solve a serious of truly baffling crimes which bring her up against an old adversary from her past…
ECHO (A KATE REDMAN MYSTERY: BOOK 6)
The West Country town of Abbeyford is suffering its worst floods in living memory when a landslide reveals the skeletal remains of a young woman. Detective Sergeant Kate Redman is assigned to the case but finds herself up against a baffling lack of evidence, missing files and the suspicion that someone on high is blocking her investigation...
Matters are complicated by her estranged mother making contact after years of silence. As age-old secrets are uncovered and powerful people are implicated, Kate and the team are determined to see justice done. But at what price?
SNARL (A KATE REDMAN MYSTERY: BOOK 4)
A research laboratory opens on the outskirts of the West Country town of Abbeyford, bringing with it new people, jobs, prosperity and publicity to the area – as well as a mob of protesters and animal rights activists. The team at Abbeyford police station take this new level of civil disorder in their stride – until a fatal car bombing of one of the laboratory’s head scientists means more drastic measures must be taken…
Detective Sergeant Kate Redman is struggling to come to terms with being back at work after a long period of absence on sick leave; not to mention the fact that her erstwhile partner Mark Olbeck has now been promoted above her. The stakes get even higher as a multiple murder scene is discovered and a violent activist is implicated in the crime. Kate and the team must put their lives on the line to expose the murderer and untangle the snarl of accusations, suspicions and motives.
CHIMERA (A KATE REDMAN MYSTERY: BOOK 5)
The West Country town of Abbeyford is celebrating its annual pagan festival, when the festivities are interrupted by the discovery of a very decomposed body. Soon, several other bodies are discovered but is it a question of foul play or are these deaths from natural causes?
It’s a puzzle that Detective Sergeant Kate Redman and the team could do without, caught up as they are in investigating an unusual series of robberies. Newly single again, Kate also has to cope with her upcoming Inspector exams and a startling announcement from her friend and colleague DI Mark Olbeck…
When a robbery goes horribly wrong, Kate begins to realise that the two cases might be linked. She must use all her experience and intelligence to solve a serious of truly baffling crimes which bring her up against an old adversary from her past…
ECHO (A KATE REDMAN MYSTERY: BOOK 6)
The West Country town of Abbeyford is suffering its worst floods in living memory when a landslide reveals the skeletal remains of a young woman. Detective Sergeant Kate Redman is assigned to the case but finds herself up against a baffling lack of evidence, missing files and the suspicion that someone on high is blocking her investigation...
Matters are complicated by her estranged mother making contact after years of silence. As age-old secrets are uncovered and powerful people are implicated, Kate and the team are determined to see justice done. But at what price?
542 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 4, 2015
About the author
Celina Grace
48 books449 followersI’ve been trying to get published as a writer since…. um… er…um…see, it was that long ago I can’t remember. A long time. I make it fifteen years and counting….
I’ve also been writing for as long as I can really remember. I wrote my first story, The Blue Ruby, when I was about seven (if I can find that deathless prose scribbled in an exercise book somewhere, I might upload it here for a bit of light relief). Throughout college and university, I experimented with screenplays and scripts (I was studying Film and English at the time at the University of East Anglia), as well as other more short stories. In my twenties, I started my first novel, finished it, then my second, then my third. In my thirties, I was slightly side-tracked by the birth of my son but, leaving aside that trifling distraction, managed to write my fourth..
I didn’t bother trying to get the first novel published as I saw it as more of a practise run at this business of being an author. With the second, I entered the 2004 Lit Idol competition and got to third place. That was my ticket to publication, I thought, surely? Hah! Just the first in a long line of disappointments, of which every writer must be familiar… hopes built up to then be smacked down again. I had an agent approach me after the competition and on their encouragement, I finished, edited and polished the manuscript, sent it off to them with happy hopes – to be told months later that they didn’t think it was quite right for them..
Gutted, but enthusiasm relatively undimmed, I started on a new novel, inspired in part by the dramatic events of 2005 – the London bombings. I also wrote a short story at the same time on the same subject – it was on my mind a lot that summer (unsurprisingly. Freedom Fighter is the story – available on Amazon as part of The Mourning After short story collection). This novel The House on Fever Street (written under my maiden name Celina Alcock) was shortlisted for the 2006 Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award. Aha, I thought, a fairly prestigious and industry recognised award. This will get me published. Did it? Did it buggery!.
The House on Fever Street was also longlisted in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award of that year, which garnered me some nice reviews and a much needed ego boost but didn’t advance my career as a published author much further..
So what next for our doughty heroine? She ups and writes her fourth novel, gains an agent and thinks now, now I have finally made it as a published author! And she waits. And waits. And waits some more. And then waits a bit more. And a bit more. Finally, for variety, she waits a bit more..
So, after two years of waiting, reading about self-publishing on Amazon and other platforms, I believe a phrase that ends in ‘…for a game of soldiers’ passed my lips and I decide to publish myself. So I did. And here I am on Amazon, making sales. No publisher. No agent. Just me..
And that makes me VERY happy.
I’ve also been writing for as long as I can really remember. I wrote my first story, The Blue Ruby, when I was about seven (if I can find that deathless prose scribbled in an exercise book somewhere, I might upload it here for a bit of light relief). Throughout college and university, I experimented with screenplays and scripts (I was studying Film and English at the time at the University of East Anglia), as well as other more short stories. In my twenties, I started my first novel, finished it, then my second, then my third. In my thirties, I was slightly side-tracked by the birth of my son but, leaving aside that trifling distraction, managed to write my fourth..
I didn’t bother trying to get the first novel published as I saw it as more of a practise run at this business of being an author. With the second, I entered the 2004 Lit Idol competition and got to third place. That was my ticket to publication, I thought, surely? Hah! Just the first in a long line of disappointments, of which every writer must be familiar… hopes built up to then be smacked down again. I had an agent approach me after the competition and on their encouragement, I finished, edited and polished the manuscript, sent it off to them with happy hopes – to be told months later that they didn’t think it was quite right for them..
Gutted, but enthusiasm relatively undimmed, I started on a new novel, inspired in part by the dramatic events of 2005 – the London bombings. I also wrote a short story at the same time on the same subject – it was on my mind a lot that summer (unsurprisingly. Freedom Fighter is the story – available on Amazon as part of The Mourning After short story collection). This novel The House on Fever Street (written under my maiden name Celina Alcock) was shortlisted for the 2006 Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award. Aha, I thought, a fairly prestigious and industry recognised award. This will get me published. Did it? Did it buggery!.
The House on Fever Street was also longlisted in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award of that year, which garnered me some nice reviews and a much needed ego boost but didn’t advance my career as a published author much further..
So what next for our doughty heroine? She ups and writes her fourth novel, gains an agent and thinks now, now I have finally made it as a published author! And she waits. And waits. And waits some more. And then waits a bit more. And a bit more. Finally, for variety, she waits a bit more..
So, after two years of waiting, reading about self-publishing on Amazon and other platforms, I believe a phrase that ends in ‘…for a game of soldiers’ passed my lips and I decide to publish myself. So I did. And here I am on Amazon, making sales. No publisher. No agent. Just me..
And that makes me VERY happy.
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May 18, 2018
Another box set containing books 4,5, and 6 in the Kate Redman mystery series. I enjoyed the first 3 books so much that I decided to buy this set too.
And I enjoyed these three enough to buy the next set of three!
Snarl: When a research lab opens near Abbeyford, it attracts protesters and animal activists. But when a scientist from the lab is killed by a car bomb, it becomes a police issue. A new member of the team is brought in to go undercover with the animal activists. Kate is newly back to work after recovering from her stab wounds, and her former partner Mark has been promoted and is now her boss. Multiple murders occur related to the lab, and it takes the entire team to figure things out.
Chimera: Abbeyford is celebrating an annual festival when a pair of teenagers sneaking off to smoke discover a decomposed body. Kate has broken up with her boyfriend and is worried about her upcoming DI exams. Several strange robberies are reported and while working on those, a famous ex-star dies, apparently from a heroin overdose. Soon more bodies begin appearing, all linked to heroin dosed with something fatal. Kate discovers a possible link and follows it up to begin solving the murders.
Echo: When a major rainstorm uncovers the bones of a young woman, Kate has to look years into the past to discover what happens. Meanwhile a journalist named Tin tricks her into a meeting with her very ill mother, from whom Kate has been estranged for 5 years. The journalist is working on a story about a home for unwed mothers in the past, and Kate's mother has been giving him information about it. Between them, Kate and Tin discover links between the mysterious skeleton and the girls in the long-ago home. But her boss is reluctant to pursue the case, and Kate suspects someone higher-up is trying to block her investigation.
And I enjoyed these three enough to buy the next set of three!
Snarl: When a research lab opens near Abbeyford, it attracts protesters and animal activists. But when a scientist from the lab is killed by a car bomb, it becomes a police issue. A new member of the team is brought in to go undercover with the animal activists. Kate is newly back to work after recovering from her stab wounds, and her former partner Mark has been promoted and is now her boss. Multiple murders occur related to the lab, and it takes the entire team to figure things out.
Chimera: Abbeyford is celebrating an annual festival when a pair of teenagers sneaking off to smoke discover a decomposed body. Kate has broken up with her boyfriend and is worried about her upcoming DI exams. Several strange robberies are reported and while working on those, a famous ex-star dies, apparently from a heroin overdose. Soon more bodies begin appearing, all linked to heroin dosed with something fatal. Kate discovers a possible link and follows it up to begin solving the murders.
Echo: When a major rainstorm uncovers the bones of a young woman, Kate has to look years into the past to discover what happens. Meanwhile a journalist named Tin tricks her into a meeting with her very ill mother, from whom Kate has been estranged for 5 years. The journalist is working on a story about a home for unwed mothers in the past, and Kate's mother has been giving him information about it. Between them, Kate and Tin discover links between the mysterious skeleton and the girls in the long-ago home. But her boss is reluctant to pursue the case, and Kate suspects someone higher-up is trying to block her investigation.
March 26, 2024
Three solid stories with good plots and a clear end result. Kate's character develops along the way thankfully as she decides to ditch her infatuation with her boss and goes against the establishment with him to bring an old case back into the light thanks to her mother's intervention in her last few days.. There were mistakes, missing and wrong words but I can ignore that if the story is entertaining.
March 17, 2024
as good as ever
It’s been years since I started reading Grace’s Kate Redman books. I loved them then and still do. Kate is a no nonsense officer who stands up for victims and for what is right in the eyes of the law. She carries baggage that affects her relationships but seems to make her a better investigator. These books are extremely well written and well edited.
It’s been years since I started reading Grace’s Kate Redman books. I loved them then and still do. Kate is a no nonsense officer who stands up for victims and for what is right in the eyes of the law. She carries baggage that affects her relationships but seems to make her a better investigator. These books are extremely well written and well edited.
March 10, 2019
Kate Rodman
An interesting character who changes as the novels continue. Nice. A lot of self doubt. That’s all I got now. The end
An interesting character who changes as the novels continue. Nice. A lot of self doubt. That’s all I got now. The end
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