Rebecca Tope is a British crime novelist and journalist. She is the author of three murder mystery series, featuring the ficitional characters of Den Cooper, a Devon police detective, Drew Slocombe, former Nurse, now undertaker and Thea Osborne, house sitter in the Cotswolds. Tope is also ghost writer of the novels based on the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme. Tope was born in 1948 in the Midlands and raised in Cheshire, then moved to Devon with her farming family. The farming life with its cruelty, death, frustration alternated with idyllic summer days, the teamwork of the harvest, the delight of the young animals, made for the powerful experiences that inspired her to write her first novel A Dirty Death. She has various jobs before becoming an author, such as pre-natal instructor, marriage counselor, and funeral director, all of which have given her various human and social experiences, which she uses in her books. In 1992, she founded Praxis Books, a small British press. The books are set in real villages (Duntisbourne Abbots, Frampton Mansell, Blockley, Temple Guiting, Lower Slaughter, Cold Aston and Hampnett, Broad Campden, Snowshill and Winchcombe, the setting for the next 2013 title. She uses a kind of "anti research", avoiding discussion with any of the villagers, but does walk along the footpaths and visits most of village pubs. She is currently working on a biography of Sabine Baring-Gould. CONTENT: Thea Osborne Series1. A Cotswold Killing (read by Caroline Lennon)2. A Cotswold Ordeal (read by Caroline Lennon)3. Death In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)4. A Cotswold Mystery (read by Caroline Lennon)5. Blood In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)6. Slaughter In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)7. Fear In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)8. A Grave In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)9. Deception In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)10. Malice In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)11. Shadows In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)12. Trouble In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)13. Revenge In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)14. Guilt In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)15. Peril In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)16. Crisis In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)17. Secrets In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)18. A Cotswold Christmas Mystery (read by Caroline Lennon)19. Echoes In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)20. Betrayal In The Cotswolds (read by Caroline Lennon)Lake District Mysteries Series21. The Windermere Witness (read by Julia Franklin)22. The Ambleside Alibi (read by Caroline Lennon)23. The Coniston Case (read by Julia Franklin)24. The Troutbeck Testimony (read by Julia Franklin)25. The Hawkshead Hostage (read by Julia Franklin)26. The Bowness Bequest (read by Julia Franklin)27. The Staveley Suspect (read by Julia Franklin)28. The Grasmere Grudge (read by Julia Franklin)29. The Patterdale Plot (read by Julia Franklin)30. The Ullswater Undertaking (read by Julia Franklin)31. The Threlkeld Theory (read by Julia Franklin)Drew Slocombe Series book 332. The Sting Of Death (read by Julia Franklin)Den Cooper Series33. A Dirty Death (read by Julia Franklin) Audio-DVD format: It can be used on DVD and DVD-Rom players, also on devices such as Playstation, Xbox or portable DVD players. In addition, the tracks can be taken to any mp3 player, such as portable mp3 player, tablets, smartphones, etc. through the computer. - The tracks are handled in the same way that you would handle the songs through iTunes. - The number of discs varies by each title, although generally it goes in a single disc. - The AudioDVD format is not the same as traditional CDs and does not work on CD players. 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