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'I hoped that we might be safe but we have not seen the last of them, after all. They want more blood.'
During a performance of their new play, A Trick to Catch a Chaste Lady, Westfield's Men are sabotaged, and they find themselves in the throngs of an audience-player melee. In the midst of the rotten-vegetable battlefield, one of the audience members is found stabbed, and their masterful clown, Barnaby Gill, is discovered
...4) Spider's web
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
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223 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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English
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Leaving her sales job behind to start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent, Genevieve finds her dreams shattered by the discovery of a body that's linked to her own secret past as a dancer at a private members' club, forcing her to recall the moment when things started to go horribly wrong.
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"It is 1942, and at the new Kent military hospital Heron's Park, postman Joseph Higgins delivers seven letters of acceptance for infirmary roles. He has no idea that one of the recipients will later cause his demise. When Higgins returns to Heron's Park with injuries from a bombing raid in 1943, his inexplicable death in the operating theatre casts four nurses and three doctors under suspicion, and a second, sudden death brings Inspector Cockrill...
9) Salt lane
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Series
Alexandra Cupidi novels volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
455 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Misfit London metro police officer Alexandra Cupidi investigates the case of a woman who is found dead in a marshland and a homeless woman claiming to be the same person in search of the son she gave up for adoption.
10) Guilty as sin
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Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Driving across Dartmoor, Lina Townend finds two men robbing a medieval church. Outraged, she manages to stop them--only to discover that it's not just in Devon they are working. Safely back in Kent, Lina makes some new friends--but realizes she may have made new enemies too, or else stirred up some very dangerous old ones.
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
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263 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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The case is an unexpected bother for Inspector Witherspoon's household, already abuzz with plans for the holidays, but Scotland Yard wants this crime solved before Christmas. Now the busy sleuths must rally in support of their Inspector -- especially since the clues are harder to find than a silver sixpence in a plum pudding.
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Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
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242 pages (large print) ; 19 cm.
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English
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When Ellie Chapman finds out that she's inherited her Great-aunt Hilary's farm on the beautiful Kentish coast, and is then made redundant from her office job, it looks like life has handed her the new start she's been craving. But there are choppy waters ahead, from difficulties with her ex-fiance, to the unexpectedly dilapidated state of the farm, to a menagerie with a poorly donkey and a wayward sheep. Love is waiting in the wings for both Ellie...
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"Brushed cruelly aside by the only father figure she's ever known and then hospitalized by her arranged husband months before his death, Amelia Pembroke means to take control of her future at last, one way or another. Yet she knows all too well she faces an uphill battle, considering her transient sleeping spells are only getting worse. Cluett's Mesmeric Hospital has been something of a refuge for Amelia over the past year, even if it didn't exactly...
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A Hardcastle and Chaytor mystery volume 02
Publisher
Zaffre Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
December, Kent, 1796: A corpse lies in the ice of a frozen pond on the grounds of the deserted New Hall, and it falls to the Reverend Hardcastle and his friend Amelia Chaytor to investigate. But with the victim's identity unknown, no murder weapon, and no known motive, it seems like an impossible task; and they soon discover that ancient loyalties and new vengeance combine to make their attempts to discover the secret of New Hall all the more dangerous...
15) Death of Jezebel
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"At Elysian Hall, a grand exhibition space in post-War London, a cast has been assembled for a medieval-themed pageant show replete with knights in colored armour, real horses, and a damsel in a rickety tower on high. With death threats discovered by members of the troupe before the show, the worst comes to pass when the leading lady is thrown from the tower before the eyes of the audience by an unknown assailant--with all doors backstage also under...
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 25 cm
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English
Description
A methodical, diligent, and exceptionally bright detective, South is an avid birdwatcher and trusted figure in his small town on the rugged Kentish coast. He also lives with the deeply buried secret that, as a child in Northern Ireland, he may have killed a man. When a fellow birdwatcher is found murdered in his remote home, South's world flips. The culprit seems to be a drifter from South's childhood; the victim was the only person connecting South...
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eden McKinley knows she can't count on much in this world, but she can depend on Bonnie, her solid, steady, straight-A best friend. So it's a bit of a surprise when Bonnie runs away with the boyfriend Eden knows nothing about five days before the start of their final exams. Especially when the police arrive on her doorstep and Eden finds out that Bonnie's boyfriend is actually their music teacher, Mr. Cohn. Sworn to secrecy and bound by loyalty, only...
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