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HarperCollins
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English
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Sandy Kinsolving's once-glittering life hangs by a threat; his future depends on his wife's inheritance and whether or not she's about to throw him out on his ear. What he wouldn't give for a solution to his money and marriage problems.
If this were an Alfred Hitchcock movie, the solution would be obvious. Enter a stranger with wife problems of his own, who offers a violent — and mutually advantageous — proposal.
Them in
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London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, yet her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street. But working for the prime minister affords her a lot of access, and Maggie...
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World War II has come home to Britain, but it takes more than nightly air raids to rattle intrepid spy and expert code breaker Maggie Hope. She's now an elite member of the Special Operations Executive, and her first assignment sends her straight into Nazi controlled Berlin. Maggie infiltrates the highest level of Berlin society to gather information. But the secrets she unveils will expose a darker, more dangerous side of the war--and of Maggie's...
6) Lost
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English
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In this third novel by the acclaimed bestselling author of "Wicked" and "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister", famed children's book author Winifred Rudge travels to London to research a book about a woman who is being haunted by Jack the Ripper. Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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England, 1942. The Nazis relentless Blitz may have paused, but London's nightly blackouts continue. Now, under the cover of darkness, a madman is brutally killing and mutilating young women in eerie and exact re-creations of Jack the Ripper's crimes. What's more, he's targeting women who are reporting for duty to be Winston Churchill's spies and saboteurs abroad. The officers at MI-5 quickly realize they need the help of special agent Maggie Hope...
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Stone Barrington novels volume 8
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English
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Arriving in London to find a young woman, who has been seen in the company of an unsavory gentleman, for a client, Stone Barrington stumbles upon a deadly rivalry between two spies and is implicated in a horrifying double murder.
10) Ghost talkers
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Engaged to a World War I intelligence officer who is away on the front, American heiress and Spirit Corps medium Ginger discovers evidence of a traitor and that her military branch is being targeted by the Germans, findings that she must address on her own when nobody will believe her.
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Matthew Grand, a former captain in the Union army, arrives in London to track down the last conspirator behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and teams up with journalist James Batchelor to investigate a series of killings that may be connected to the assassination.
12) Almost home
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Sinful suitors volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"American artist Jeremy Keane refuses to return home and take over his father's business. He'd much rather sample bevies of beauties abroad, in search of a model for the provocative masterpiece he's driven to paint. When he meets Lady Yvette Barlow at a London wedding, he realizes she's perfect for his work--and determines to capture the young heiress's defiant spirit and breathtaking sensuality on canvas. No stranger to scandal, Yvette agrees to...
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"Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill's Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain's beloved royals against an international plot--one that could change the course of history. As World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, completes her training to become a spy for MI-5. Spirited,...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Maher's absorbing debut traces six years in the life of Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, the lesser-known sister of JFK and his other famous siblings. The novel opens in 1938 as 18-year-old Kick, living in London while her father is ambassador to Britain, makes her debut before the queen. Soon afterwards, she meets Billy Hartington, handsome heir to a dukedom and -- unfortunately for the devoutly Catholic Kick -- a staunch Protestant. The story follows...
19) The debutante
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Cate, an artist who abandoned her talent, heart, and self-respect in New York, takes a temporary gig as an antiques appraiser in London, and is soon drawn into the mystery of the beautiful Blythe sisters, recently deceased aristocrat Irene and long-missing Diana, both of whom shocked and fascinated London in the 1930s.
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English
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In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist Ruby Sutton gets her big break: the chance to report on the European war as a staff writer for Picture Weekly news-magazine in London. She jumps at the chance, for it's an opportunity not only to prove herself, but also to start fresh in a city and country that know nothing of her humble origins. But life in besieged Britain tests Ruby in ways she never imagined. Although most of Ruby's new...
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