George and Molly Palmer-Jones · Book 1
A Bird in the Hand
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 221
- ISBN-13
- 9781250413123
- Type
- novel
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About this book
A Bird in the Hand is the novel that opens Ann Cleeves's George and Molly Palmer-Jones series, published in 1986. It's followed here by Come Death and High Water. It's the natural place to begin the series, which ran to completion between 1986 and 1996 across 8 books. It's Ann Cleeves's debut series.
Its place in George and Molly Palmer-Jones
A Bird in the Hand is book 1 in the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series. It is followed by Come Death and High Water. See the full George and Molly Palmer-Jones reading order.
George and Molly Palmer-Jones are Ann Cleeves's first series detectives: a retired Home Office civil servant and his social-worker wife who take up amateur investigation together, usually with a birdwatching connection, since Cleeves and her husband were keen birders themselves when she started writing. Across eight novels published between 1986 and 1996, the Palmer-Joneses work cases that lean on Cleeves's own knowledge of Britain's birdwatching subculture and its remote coastal and island settings — the same…
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