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4 reviews
Margaret Yorke

Warner Futura, 1998

A chillingly terrific novel
The worst crime in the small village of Middleburgh and its surrounding towns is an occasional disorderly conduct by someone who imbibed a bit too much. However, everything radically changes when Daniel Stewart is murdered trying to end a schoolboy brawl. The villagers are all shocked, none more so than solicitor Oliver Foxton. The victim's son plans to avenge his father's untimely death. ...

Deceiving Mirror

1 review
Margaret Yorke

Ulverscroft Large Print, 2003

Margaret Yorke book
I'd been looking for this early margaret yorke book for a long time, am thrilled to finally have it!

The Smooth Face of Evil

1 review
Margaret Yorke

Arrow, 1985

Con Artist? Who is the Ultimate?
Terry is a very successful con artist who is not opposed to stealing cars or other items either. Alice is an old lady who sold her house so her son and his wife could buy a better one but has been harshly treated by her daughter in law who just wanted her money and not her living with them. A car accident brings them together where Terry also meets Alice's neighbour Sue, a female version of ...

Dangerous to Know

1 review
Margaret Yorke

Hutchinson, 1993

An insightful look at emotional abuse
Yorke takes a look at one of the most insidious forms of domestic violence -- emotional abuse. It is a perceptive look at emotional abuse written under the guise of a mystery

Miss Butterpat Goes Wild! (Teachers' Secrets)

1 review
Malcolm Yorke

Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 1994

A jolly little book
This delightful children's book follows the exploits of a young teacher Miss Cushy Butterpat. Everyone likes Miss Butterpat but everyone, from her grandmother to her pupils think she is as ordinary as they come and no one thinks she will do anything exciting during the summer holidays. How wrong they are! Miss Butterpat with her newly knitted blue jumper dresses up as a sailor and sails away ...

Serious Intent

2 reviews
Margaret Yorke

Time Warner Paperbacks, 1996

true psychological suspense
this thought provoking story is Margaret Yorke at her best. She again serves up an intelligent, forthright look at modern life, warts & all!! It is filled with quiet menace, something she is SO good at doing. My only problem with Margaret Yorke is that she doesn't write new books fast enough, hence my second reading of "Serious Intent" It was just as good as the first time!!

Intimate Kill

1 review
Margaret Yorke

Random House of Canada, Limited, 1987

Poignant and Perfect
This is a superbly written mystery novel, written with a great sensitivity that makes you care about even the minor characters. The book begins with Stephen Dawes being released from prison. He's served a long sentence for murdering his wife Marcia. It was a slightly unusual case - the body was never found. Stephen knows that he didn't kill Marcia. He's been convicted as a murderer and ...

The Price of Guilt

1 review
Margaret Yorke

Time Warner Paperbacks, 2000

This book has a great plot to it !
If you enjoy reading Ruth Rendal - This is the book for you !

False Pretences

2 reviews
Margaret Yorke

Chivers Audio Books, 1999

Another Winner from Ms. Yorke!
This is a very British novel along the lines of Ruth Rendell (but not as intense!) and is rather typical of Ms. Yorke, whose work I feel is sadly overlooked. Her novels are wonderfully descriptive of the modern day life of genteel, intelligent middleaged women who find themselves in dangerous/mysterious situations. This novel's heroine is a goodhearted independent lady in a blah marriage who ...

The Hand of Death

1 review
Margaret Yorke

Arrow Books Ltd, 1982

Grasp's the imagination with solidly built suspense!
The residents of Tellingford, a rural English village, learn that murder is a crime which can happen next door, or across the street, or even closer to home. Ronald Trimm is a model citizen, a successful antiques dealer. But at week's end when the shop is closed, he indulges in erotic fantasy. His dreams suddenly come to life when a rich, lonely widow seduces him. Ronald expects an affair to ...

No Medals for the Major

1 review
Margaret Yorke

Arrow Books Ltd, 1981

Definitely worth a try
This was my first book by this author, and I wasn't sure what to expect. I have to say, I really enjoyed it! Major Johnson is settling in to a quiet retirement, making friends, working at the local stately home, taking a cooking class. Then he becomes the main suspect in the hit and run death of a little girl. Although the reader knows who committed the crime, the suspense comes in waiting to see ...

Cause for Concern

3 reviews
Margaret Yorke

Time Warner Paperbacks, 2003

Excellent domestic tragedy
Margaret Yorke often writes of the aftermath of crime. Here, an old crime, and a new one, consume several families. The characters are well drawn, familiar, and many will recognize these situations that often turn tragic. Most poignantly, an indulgent parent, who later is at the mercy of a tyrant that she helped create.

The Price of Guilt

1 review
Margaret Yorke

Chivers Audio Books, 2000

For those who like British mysterys
Louise Widdows wonders if she is lucky to be alive having survived a hit and run murder attempt to kill her. The driver of the vehicle mounted the sidewalk to deliberately hit her. Besides fear, Louise is an incredible leadcharacter. Reading Louise's tale, which is ninety-five per cent of the plot makes award winning Margaret Yorke's latest entry worth the time and money because she is one of ...

Find Me a Villain

1 review
Margaret Yorke

Hutchinson, 1983

Tame and inoffensive, but no way a crime book
Some crime writers are just too understated for readers keen on continuous blood, gore and action - Patricia Highsmith comes to mind, a writer with whom this author has been (inaccurately) compared. This is the only Margaret Yorke book I've read, and I just don't get the purpose of it. The book centers around Nina, a passive, restrained Englishwoman of small horizons - just the kind of person who ...

Almost the Truth

1 review
Margaret Yorke

Mysterious Press, 1996

Nasty crime
Rape is such an ugly topic to talk about but this author, Margaret Yorke did such a wonderful job of exposing some of the unfortunate side effects from such an injury. After I read the book Paradise Wild by Johanna Lindsey, I read this book. Each speaks about a character who is raped. Please read my review on Paradise Wild. This book treats rape the right way.

Dangerous to Know (Eagle Large Print)

13 reviews
Margaret Yorke

Eagle Large Print, 1994

Superb story
I have read a lot of good books and I found "Dangerous to Know" to be at the top of my list. I not only read it, I listened to it on tape. I referred it to a co-worker who also loved it. Both of us were intriqued through the whole story. The further we read the more interesting the book became. Definitly an excellent book. I am planning on reading it again.

The point of murder

1 review
Margaret Yorke

Hutchinson, 1978

Qiietly abrasive tale of murder and deception
Margaret Yorke ,while an English woman who writes crime novels ,should not really be bracketed with the so called Golden Age writers like Christie or Allingham .She is less interested than such writers in creating classic whodunnits ,and instead looks at the deceptive reality that lies behind the peaceful outward apearance of things .The Point of Murder-originally published in the US as The Come ...

A Question of Belief

2 reviews
Margaret Yorke

Thorndike Press, 1997

Terrific, a mesmerizing thriller
Philip Winter is a bitter man who has earned the right to be acrimonious. After rejecting the attention of a co-worker out of loyalty to his spouse, the scorned woman accuses Philip of rape. Everyone assumes he did it even though the woman in question has slept with many of her co-workers. One peer tells Philip that he should have performed the act so that it would been over. The store where ...

A Case To Answer

3 reviews
Margaret Yorke

Book Club Associates, 2000

Unknown Treasure - Yorke is an accomplished writer.
Margaret Yorke writes a specific sort of mystery; contemporary, multi-voiced and always English, her writing is clear and painstaking, giving real life and sympathy to all her characters, not merely heroic or evil ones. This books is typical Yorke, in that she presents a family in disarray, a feckless criminal, and older people whose lives are not used up, but are disregarded in the modern rush. ...

Mortal Remains

1 review
Margaret Yorke

Severn House, 1990

Routine and pallid whodunnit
Margaret Yorke did not sustain her series of novels about Dr Patrick Grant,an Oxford University Art History lecturer ,and jettisoned the series after 5 books ,of which this is the penultimate work .They are more in the way of traditional whodunnits ,with an academic and "distinguished amateur detective" feel to them than the usual psychological studies that constitute the bulk of her output .I ...

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