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My Lady's Money
Old Lady Lydiard sat meditating by the fireside, with three letters lying open on her lap.
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The Guilty River
During his lifetime, British fiction writer Wilkie Collins came to rival Charles Dickens in popularity and critical acclaim. Like Dickens, Collins often gravitated toward characters who overcame significant obstacles to learn important life lessons. The novella The Guilty River continues in this vein, recounting an against-all-odds love affair that blossoms between a couple that each…
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A Killing at Smugglers Cove
A Killing at Smugglers Cove
An addictive cosy historical murder mystery, perfect for fans of Verity BrightWartime secrets, smugglers’ caves, skeletal remains... And the holiday’s only just begun…Summer, 1923. Reporter Iris Woodmore travels to sunny Devon with her friends Percy Baverstock and Millicent Nightingale for her father’s wedding to Katherine Keats.But when Millicent uncovers skeletal remains hidden on the private…
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L' Argent des autres
Vainement on chercherait dans Paris une rue plus paisible que la rue Saint-Gilles, au Marais, a deux pas de la place Royale.La, pas de voitures, jamais de foule. A peine le silence y est rompu par les sonneries reglementaires de la caserne des Minimes, par les cloches de l'eglise Saint-Louis ou par les clameurs joyeuses des eleves de l'institution Massin a l'heure des recreations.Le soir, bien…
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A Fatal Lie
A Fatal Lie
“If there’s ever been a more complex and compelling hero in crime fiction than Inspector Rutledge, I can’t think of one.” —Jeffery Deaver In one of his most puzzling cases, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge must delve deep into a dead man’s life and his past to find a killer determined to keep dark secrets buried.A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified boy stumbles on…
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Pirate King (with bonus short story Beekeeping for Beginners)
Pirate King (with bonus short story Beekeeping for Beginners)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An engaging romp guaranteed to please . . . perfectly written in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.”—USA Today   In England’s young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. But rumors of criminal activities swirl around his popular movie studio. At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell travels undercover to the set of…
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Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night
Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night
Lock the doors. Draw the shades. Pull up the covers and be prepared for Thriller to keep you up all night!Featuring North America’s foremost thriller authors, Thriller was the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Revisit these heart-pumping tales of suspense, including thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature…
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The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin
The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin
In Regency England, the eccentric Colebrook sisters are amateur detectives who use their wits and invisibility as “old maids” to fight injustice in this delightful and fiercely feminist novel of mystery and adventure from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman.To most of Regency high society, forty-two-year-old Lady Augusta Colebrook, or Gus, and her twin sister, Julia, are just…
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The Lotus Shoes
The Lotus Shoes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Brilliantly written, masterful storytelling, and hard to put down. This story will stay with me for a very, very long time." —Heather Morris, #1 bestselling author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzAn empowering, uplifting tale of two women from opposite sides of society, and their extraordinary journey of sisterhood, betrayal, love and triumph.1800s China. Tightly bound feet,…
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The Thunder of Stones
The Thunder of Stones
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The Lost Symbol: Special Illustrated Edition
The Lost Symbol: Special Illustrated Edition
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Oxford Blue
Oxford Blue
Rose Miles was young, wealthy, recently widowed and bored out of her mind. Theodore Stone was trying to find a way to avoid joining the family business. When their paths crossed in dramatic fashion, it seemed logical for them to join forces -- and the Milestone Investigative Agency was the result.'Oxford Blue' is the first novel in the Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries series
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The Saint
The Saint
Elizabethan England:
Elizabeth Buckley has been in love with Edward Monk for most of her life. Unfortunately he's only ever had eyes for her older, prettier sister. Five years after he left the village to make himself worthy of a Buckley, their lives intersect. This time, she's determined to make him see her and bed her.
All Edward has to do is convince the girl he loves to set aside her…
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Marble Hall Murders
Marble Hall Murders
Watch Marble Hall Murders, the final installment in the Susan Ryeland series, premiering September 6 on MASTERPIECE on PBS.“Diabolically clever.”—New York Times"Horowitz dazzles with the brilliant third entry in his Susan Ryeland series . . . . [He is] is at the top of his game here, linking past and present in a virtuoso finale worthy of Agatha Christie."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)Murder…
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A Christmas Guide to Family and Murder
A Christmas Guide to Family and Murder
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Deadly Remains
Deadly Remains
Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the new mystery in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series.When a body is discovered in a picturesque South Devon village, DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate. The victim, Barry Brown, is a celebrity ghostwriter and the theft of his laptop suggests that the motive for murder may lie in his work.While Wesley investigates Barry's famous…
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The Bookseller of Inverness
The Bookseller of Inverness
A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN.'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMESAfter Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades.Six years later, with the…
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The Egyptian Antiquities Murder
The Egyptian Antiquities Murder
Secrets never die . . .
October, 1923. Lady detective Olive Belgrave has a new case. Lady Agnes doesn’t believe in curses—especially ancient curses—and she hires Olive to prove her uncle wasn’t the victim of a malevolent mummy. Olive investigates and discovers the truth is much worse—it’s murder. Can Olive debunk the curse and reveal the true culprit before the mummy curse claims another…
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