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    Green Acres

    By Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen

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    About this ebook

    A short story in the Rhapsody Gershwin series, set in Knavesborough, a fictional Yorkshire village. First published in the anthology "The Red Shoes".
    C 4500 words.
    Now you can find out what happened to a couple of the quirky inhabitants since we left them at the end of "The Cosy Knave". Mrs Vanilla McVities, the former cook of Netherfield Manor, has bought an old mansion and converted it into an old people's home. Rhapsody Gershwin, librarian and amateur sleuth, pops in to visit a neighbour and finds herself on the business end of murder.
    A sheep dog also plays an important role in the story - you'd be barking to miss this one!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen
    Release dateApr 28, 2014
    ISBN9788793197022
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    Green Acres
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    Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen

    Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen is a teacher from Denmark, teaching English at upper secondary level. In her spare time she reads and writes crime fiction in English and Danish, and in 2010 she sold her first flash stories to American magazines and publishers. Since then she has published two collections of flash fiction, "Candied Crime" (humour) and "Liquorice Twists" (a bit darker). Her ́bestseller ́ is the romantic ghost story "Heather Farm" (suspense plus romance in the Dunes near the Danish west coast). Her latest mystery "The Cosy Knave" - a cosy mystery featuring village constable Archibald Penrose and the librarian Rhapsody Gershwin. A very popular story in America.

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