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Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Although he hasn't seen Robert Bergin for 40 years, Ishmael feels duty bound to respond when his old friend calls for help. Robert's daughter Gillian is about to be married, and he is afraid she'll fall prey to the ancient family curse. Arriving in rural Yorkshire, Ishmael and his partner Penny learn that the vicar who was to perform the ceremony has been found dead in the church, hanging from his own bell rope. With no clues, no evidence and no...
82) A dreadful past
Author
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
172 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The sighting of a vase in an antiques shop leads to a twenty-year-old murder case being reopened and as George Hennessey and his team try to close in on a mysterious gang of killers, the discovery of a new body throws them off track.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
246, 11 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now that Tallulah Casey has been officially admitted to the Dother Hall performing arts program, she knows she must stay focused and ignore the boys at Woolfe Academy if she wants to win this year's grand prize for best student performance.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Penguin classics deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
652 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Both Charlotte's 'Jane Eyre' and Emily's 'Wuthering Heights' have won lofty places in the pantheon and stirred the romantic sensibilities of generations of readers. This work unites these two favourites with the lesser known but no less powerful work by their youngest sister, Anne.
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Yorkshire cop Jim Grant will do anything to bring down the bad guys. But when the Discipline and Complaint inspector feels he's gone too far, Grant is put on suspension and goes to his favorite all-night diner to flirt with his favorite waitress . . . and that's when all hell breaks loose"--Publisher.
89) Elmet
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
349 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cathy and Daniel live in the remote woods of Yorkshire with their gentle brute of a father, a former enforcer who now wants only to be left alone to raise his children. But when a powerful landowner shows up on their doorstep, a chain of violent events is set in motion"--
Author
Series
Kate Shackleton mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Description
"North Yorkshire, 1930. It's the season for warm and spirited countryside celebrations. Ever since the war, pubs have been in the doldrums, and in an attempt to promote and breathe new life back into the business, brewers select a charismatic employee as local queen--to be the face of their industry. And this year's queen, wages clerk Ruth Parnaby, has invited the ever intrepid Kate Shackleton and her niece Harriet to accompany her on public engagements...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Chief Inspector Alan Banks knows that secrecy can sometimes prove fatal, and secrets were the driving force behind Caroline Hartley's life&and death. She was a beautiful enigma, brutally stabbed in her own home three days prior to Christmas. Leaving her past behind for a forbidden love affair, she mystified more than a few. And now she is dead, clothed only in her unshared mysteries and her blood. In this season of giving and forgiving, Banks is eager...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
England, 2019: Audrey Collins knows only two things about her beloved grandmother's past: She was born into nobility and she immigrated to America at seventeen years old. So when Audrey inherits her gran's home in North Yorkshire, she arrives expecting a sprawling country estate fit for lords and ladies. Instead, she finds an abandoned stone cottage perfectly preserved as Gran left it when she fled in 1941 -- ration book and all -- and begins to uncover...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 297 pages : maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the fourteenth century comes to a close, York seethes on the brink of civil war--and young widow Kate Clifford, struggling to keep her businesses afloat, realizes that her mother is harboring a dangerous secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary Connon was a small-town femme fatale, eager to test her allure on any man between 6 and 60. When she's found dead in her own living room, her husband--the one bloke to whom she never blew a kiss--comes instantly under suspicion. But Andy Dalziel, the gloriously vulgar savant of the Mid-Yorkshire police force, has some other ideas, and all of them center on the local rugby club--the town's social center, and Mary Connon's preferred hunting ground....
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll flee their repressive boarding school, intending to start over in the theaters of Paris, but they instead find themselves at Cedric's estate in Yorkshire, where a hidden garden helps them realize their destiny.
96) On Beulah Height
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Three little girls, one by one, had vanished from the farming village of Dendale. Their bodies were never found but 23 years later-
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"1911: Inside an asylum on the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a ballroom, vast and beautiful. For one bright evening every week, they come together and dance. When John and Ella meet, it is a dance that will change two lives forever. Set during the heat wave in the summer of 1911 at the end of the Edwardian era, this is a tale of unlikely love and dangerous obsession, of madness...
Author
Language
English
Description
A neurodivergent, hyperlexic book editor, Jo Jones, taking possession of a possibly haunted family estate in North Yorkshire, finds herself at the center of a murder investigation when the groundskeeper is found dead and a family portrait goes missing, and to clear her name, she must unearth the town's secrets--and her own.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a deep grave containing five skeletons is found in the corner of a field, DCI Hennessey and his team of officers from the Vale of York police station are called in to investigate. The burial site had lain undiscovered for over twenty years, and the resulting police inquiry soon uncovers a multiple murder that seems to have its roots in a legal dispute between two families going back to the aftermath of the English Civil War. But have the victims...
100) A mansion for murder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Kate Shackleton disembarks at Saltaire station, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, she has no idea what to expect. A stranger, Ronnie Creswell, has written to say that he has urgent information about the past that will interest her, and he persuades her to make the journey to Milner Field, the grand house that is said to be cursed. But moments after Kate arrives at the lodge, a messenger brings devastating news to Ronnie’s parents: he has been...
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