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81) Brass lives
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Leeds, June 1913. Deputy Chief Constable Tom Harper is a busy man. He's overseeing a national suffragist pilgrimage due in Leeds that his wife Annabelle intends to join, and his daughter Mary has exciting plans of her own. Then a letter arrives from police in New York: Davey Mullen, an American gangster born in Leeds, is on his way back to the city, fleeing a bloody gang war. Despite Tom's best efforts to keep an eye on him, Davey's arrival triggers...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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In November 1928, Britain is still recovering from the Great War and a severe depression. In a country home near the Welsh border, retired glassworks owner Penrose Llewellyn has invited his family home to celebrate his 60th birthday. Pen plans to announce his engagement, but he is murdered the night before the party. Who stood to gain the most? DI Herbert Reardon has his work cut out for him, unravelling family secrets dating back years.
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English
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"It's October 1814. The war with France is finally over, Europe's diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back together, and London finds itself in the grip of a series of terrifying murders eerily similar to the shocking Ratcliffe Highway murders of three years before. In 1811, two entire families were brutally murdered in their homes. A suspect--a young Irish seaman named John Murphy--was arrested. But before...
88) Other kingdoms
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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In 1918, wounded WWI American soldier Alex White has a frightening encounter in the forest near the pastoral English village of Gatford. His encounter leads him into the arms of Magda Variel, an alluring red-haired widow rumored to be a witch. She warns him to steer clear of the wood and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help himself. Drawn to its verdant mysteries, he finds love, danger, and wonders that will forever change...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A series of anonymous accusations sent via post have set friend against friend and neighbor against neighbor. In her new position as magistrate, Edwina has already had to settle one dispute that led to fisticuffs. Even Beryl has received a poison pen letter, and while she finds its message preposterous and laughable, others are taking the missives to heart. Their headstrong housekeeper Beddoes is ready to resign and one villager has attempted to...
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Mitford murders (Jessica Fellowes) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's 1920, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle. Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nursery maid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy - an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories. But then a nurse - Florence Nightingale...
91) The almanack
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Tabitha Hart novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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During the midsummer of 1752, following a desperate summons from her mother, Tabitha Hart departs London for her home village of Netherlea - only to discover that her mother has drowned. Determined to discover the truth about the Widow Hart's death, Tabitha consults her almanack and uncovers a series of cryptic notes describing her mother's terror of someone she names only as 'D'. Teaming up with young writer Nat Starling, Tabitha begins a race against...
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Beau Brummell mysteries volume 4
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English
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When Beau Brummell opens a club with exquisite cuisine and high stakes gambling, he’s soon caught up in a scandal. Lieutenant Nevill accuses government official Theobald Jacombe of cheating. But before the duel happens, Jacombe is murdered at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and the authorities arrest Nevill for the crime. Refusing to believe Nevill guilty, the Beau sets out to find who might want to kill Jacombe. [4th of the Beau Brummell mysteries] Regency...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"The gruesome murder of a young French physician draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his pregnant wife, Hero, into a dangerous, decades-old mystery as a wrenching piece of Sebastian's past puts him to the ultimate test. Regency England, January 1813: When a badly injured Frenchwoman is found beside the mutilated body of Dr. Damion Pelletan in one of London's worst slums, Sebastian finds himself caught in a high-stakes tangle of murder...
95) Home fires
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Description
A married couple, Caroline and Andrew, and his mother, who suffers from dementia, handle all in their own way the death of their son and grandson, killed during a military mission in Sudan.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Poppy Redfern is back on the case when two female fighter pilots take a fatal dive in an all-new Woman of World War II Mystery by Tessa Arlen. It is the late autumn of 1942. Our indomitable heroine Poppy Redfern is thoroughly immersed in her new job as a scriptwriter at the London Crown Film Unit, which produces short films featuring British civilians who perform acts of valor and heroism in wartime. After weeks of typing copy and sharpening pencils,...
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Demon Cynster has seen love bring his brethren to their knees, and he's vowed that he will not share their fateuntil he spies Felicity Parteger sneaking around his country estate. Demon remembers Felicity as a mere chit of a girl, but now she stands before him-begging for his help-all lush curves, sparkling eyesand so temptingly worthy of the love he's vowed never to surrender to any woman. Felicity knew Demon was one of the ton's most eligible bachelors...
100) Mistletoe and murder
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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"On a Christmas holiday to Cambridge, Daisy and Hazel get caught up in another murder investigation, and a competition with rival detectives." --
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