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Jewels of the ton volume 3
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English
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Secret agent Lily Dawson poses as a courtesan to try to uncover a traitor to the Crown, and soon enlists the help of Andrew Booth-Payne, the Earl of Darlington.
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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...
23) Storm and steel
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Book of the black earth volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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While magician Horace struggles with loyalties in two disparate cultures, rebel Jirom finds the uprising turning more dangerous and independent spy Alyra walks a fine line between love and duty to complete her mission.
24) Stars and smoke
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Stars and smoke (Lu) volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When nineteen-year-old international pop sensation Winter Young is recruited by a covert organization to take down a criminal tycoon, he is paired with Sydney Cossette, a fierce and unpredictable secret agent, but suspicions soon turn to sparks as the two are drawn into a tangled web of secrets and deception.
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Set in 1943, Maggie Hope, an American stationed in England who works for MI5, goes to Los Angeles, where Gloria Hutton, the fiancée of RAF pilot John Sterling, has been found dead in a hotel swimming pool. The police are quick to label the deceased a "hophead" and rule her death an accident, but Sterling refuses to believe their assessment and asks Maggie to investigate. Maggie's inquiry, which takes her to film sets, nightclubs, and other Hollywood...
28) Love and let spy
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Lord and Lady Spy series volume 3
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English
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Jane Bonde was raised to be a spy, but the ton knows her only as an elusive beauty who turns men's heads when she walks into a room. She's also the Crown's last best hope. If she can't find and destroy the diabolical Foncé́ and his French spy ring, England's defenses may fall. But something even more dangerous than a madman stands in her way-- her fiancé.
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"Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It's a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those...
30) A song unheard
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Shadows over England volume 2
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English
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At the outset of WWI, high-end thief Willa Forsythe is hired to steal a cypher from famous violinist Lukas De Wilde. Given the value of his father's work as a cryptologist, Lukas fears for his family and doesn't know who to trust. He likes Willa--and the feeling is mutual--but if Willa doesn't betray him as ordered, her own family will pay the price.
31) Dear Miss Kopp
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Kopp sisters novels volume 6
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English
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"The U.S. has finally entered World War I. Constance, the oldest of the Kopp sisters, is doing intelligence work on the home front for the Bureau of Investigation while youngest sister and aspiring actress, Fleurette, travels across the country entertaining troops with song and dance. Meanwhile, at an undisclosed location in France, Norma oversees her thwarted pigeon project for the Army Signal Corps. When her roommate, a nurse at the American field...
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Ladies of Lantern Street volume 2
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English
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Targeted by a disabled former spy for the Crown who wrongly believes she is blackmailing his sister, Beatrice Lockwood offers her assistance in tracking down the real culprit and eventually falls for the spy only to find herself hunted by a mad scientist who would resurrect a dead lover.
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"Two former female spies, bound by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II--an extraordinary, propulsive historical novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls The year is 1952. It's been over a decade since American Sofie Anderson and Frenchwoman Arlette LaRue were imprisoned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. As a pair of spies known as the...
34) A hope divided
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The Loyal League volume 2
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English
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For all of the War Between the States, Marlie Lynch has helped with coded letters about anti-Rebel uprisings in her Carolina woods; tisanes and poultices for Union prisoners; and silent aid to fleeing slave and Freeman alike. Then the vicious Confederate Home Guard claims Marlie's home for their new base of operations in the guerrilla war against Southern resistors of the Rebel cause. Escaped prisoner Ewan McCall is sheltering in Marlie's laboratory;...
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Elena Standish volume 2
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English
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"On her first mission for MI6, the daring young photographer at the heart of bestselling author Anne Perry's thrilling 1930s mystery series travels to Mussolini's Italy to rescue the lover who betrayed her. Britain's secret service, MI6, has lost contact with its informant in northern Italy, just as important intel about the future plans of Austria and Nazi Germany is coming to light. And young Elena Standish, to her surprise, is the only one who...
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. Now she's working undercover for the Special Operations Executive in the elegant but eerily silent city of Paris, where SS officers prowl the streets in their Mercedes and the Ritz is draped with swastika banners. Walking among the enemy is tense and terrifying, and even though she's disguised in chic Chanel, Maggie can't help longing for home. But her missions come first....
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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After being recruited as a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth's cousin, Lady Mary, in order to spy on her, Rosamund Jaffrey discovers that Lady Mary's life is in danger after it is rumored that she is being courted by Ivan the Terrible of Russia.
38) Bette: a novel
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Women of Ivy Manor volume 2
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English
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"A woman coming of age during World War II becomes involved in anti-Nazi espionage"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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Darcy is off on another one of his top secret jaunts, and Grandad is busy helping wayward youths avoid lives of crime. So when Georgie's friend Belinda inherits an old cottage in Cornwall she jump at the chance. The creaky old cottage is called White Sails-- and is completely uninhabitable. Rose Summers, a woman Belinda knew as a child when she spent time in Cornwall, invites them to stay at Trewoma Hall, owned by her husband, Tony. Belinda confesses...
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The Loyal League volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
During the Civil War two undercover agents, Elle Burns, a former slave, and Malcolm McCall a detective in Pinkerton's Secret Service uncover a plot that could lead to a Confederate victory and vow to preserve the Union at any cost.
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