18 books like The Franchise Affair (Inspector Alan Grant #3)

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll · 1865 · ★ 4.0 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll. A young girl named Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. One of the best-known works of Victorian literature, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had huge… Shares: Community pick

In the Presence of the Enemy (Inspector Lynley Mystery) Elizabeth George · 1996 · ★ 4.4 · 636p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at his tabloid The Source, he discovers that someone else excels at ferreting out secrets as well. He learns from this letter that ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted, and if Luxford… Shares: Kidnapping, Great Britain, England, Mystery

A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant #2) Josephine Tey · 1936 · ★ 3.9 · 197p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A woman's body is found on the English seacoast, and twisted in her hair is an article screaming murder. For Inspector Alan Grant, the case becomes a nightmare, as too many clues and too many motives arise. (cc. Edmonton Public Library website.) Shares: Great Britain, England, Mystery

Peril in Paris Rhys Bowen · 2022 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her husband, Darcy, are awaiting the arrival of their baby when they receive an unexpected invitation to visit Paris. However, their trip quickly turns into a tangled web of international intrigue as they become embroiled in a mystery involving murder, espionage, and high-stakes politics. Shares: England, Mystery

Lincoln Park Vin Smith · 2003 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Moderate V. J. Dixon was a playful sort, and the Labor Day weekend would be a perfect time to bond with his two sons, Jeff and Tyler. Dixon's new girlfriend, Mariel Hartman, had slipped seamlessly into the lives of the Dixon's; all three still smarting from the untimely "cafe coronary" death of wife and mother Sharon Dixon. A treasure hunt, promising to be a centerpiece of the three-day end-of-summer… Shares: Kidnapping, Mystery

The Angel of Terror Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 3.6 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The Angel of Terror aka The Destroying Angel Jack Glover of Rennet, Glover and Simpson does not believe his cousin Meredith killed Bulford. Meredith's father was an eccentric and unless Meredith is married by the age of thirty his sister inherits everything. She is dead and Meredith, now in prison, is thirty next Monday. Meanwhile Lydia Beale is struggling to pay her dead father's creditors. When… Shares: Crime, Mystery

The Paradise Mystery Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Challenging American tourists, sure appreciators of all that is ancient and picturesque in England, invariably come to a halt, holding their breath in a sudden catch of wonder, as they pass through the half-ruinous gateway which admits to the Close of Wrychester. Nowhere else in England is there a fairer prospect of old-world peace. There before their eyes, set in the centre of a great green sward, fringed… Shares: England, Mystery

Aftermath Peter Robinson · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Number 35 The Hill is a house in an ordinary street, owned by an apparently ordinary young couple. When constables Janet Taylorand Dennis Morrisey are sent to the house following a report ofa disturbance, they stumble upon a truly horrific scene. Shares: Kidnapping, England, Mystery

The Ravenscar Dynasty Barbara Taylor Bradford · 1867 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Devastated by the deaths of three family members in a suspicious fire, young Edward Deravenel battles his cousin for control of a business empire that was usurped from his branch of the family sixty years earlier. Shares: Great Britain, England

The Lancashire Witches, a Romance of Pendle Forest William Harrison Ainsworth · 1849 · ★ 3.5 · 484p · ≈ 16h · Challenging The Lancashire Witches begins in the 16th century, in Lancashire, England. When a Cistercian monk, Borlace Alvetham, is falsely accused of witchcraft and condemned to death by his rival, Brother Paslew, he sells his soul to Satan and escapes. Years later, granted the powers of a warlock, he returns in the guise of Nicholas Demdike to witness Paslew's execution for treason. Dying, Paslew curses… Shares: Great Britain, England

The Butterfly Garden Dot Hutchison · 2016 · ★ 4.1 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious butterflies -- young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. When the garden is discovered, a survivor is… Shares: Kidnapping, Crime, Mystery

Death Walks the Woods Cyril Hare · 1954 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Also published as That Yew Tree's Shade The archdruid's yew, Yew Hill, Markshire, had provided cover in its day for a variety of activities, but never before had it been shelter for murder. Then one day, in the calm of Eastertide, murder was found; and overnight, as the police began their remorseless questioning, Yewbury was shocked out of admiring foliage. Detective Superintendent Trimble had… Shares: Crime, England

The daffodil murder Edgar Wallace · 1921 · ★ 3.4 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Ein Londoner Gescha˜ftsmann entla˜©t seineAngestellte fristlos. Kurze Zeit spa˜ter liegter erschossen im Gras des Hyde Park ... Shares: England, Mystery

Murder at the Brightwell Ashley Weaver · 2014 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Amory Ames is a wealthy young woman who regrets her marriage to her notoriously charming playboy husband, Milo. Looking for a change, she accepts a request from her former fiancé, Gil Trent, and accompanies him to the Brightwell Hotel to help circumvent his sister's marriage to a disreputable ladies' man. When the groom-to-be is murdered and Gil is arrested, Amory works to clear his name. But… Shares: Crime, England

A Walk Among the Tombstones Lawrence Block · 1992 · ★ 4.0 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #10. "When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there's no degree of difference" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Shares: Kidnapping, Mystery

Trent's Last Case E. C. Bentley · 1900 · ★ 4.1 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Trent investigates the death of an industrialist. He solves the case three times, each time getting closer to the truth. Shares: Great Britain, Crime, England, Mystery

Road Rage (Inspector Wexford) Ruth Rendell · 1770 · ★ 4.0 · 389p · ≈ 12h · Demanding La construction d'une route va entraîner la disparition du grand bois de Framhust. Aussitôt les écologistes se mobilisent. Un groupe d'extrémistes va même jusqu'à kidnapper cinq personnes, dont la femme de l'inspecteur. S'engage alors une terrible course contre la montre... Shares: Kidnapping, England, Mystery

Stranger In Paradise Robert B. Parker · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Police Chief Jesse Stone faces his most fearsome adversary in the latest addition to the celebrated series.The last time Jesse Stone, chief of police of Paradise, Massachusetts, saw Wilson "Crow" Cromartie, the Apache Indian hit man was racing away in a speedboat after executing one of the most lucrative and deadly heists in the town's history. Crow was part of a team of ex-cons who plotted to… Shares: Kidnapping, Crime, Mystery

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