Kate Morton
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Detective Constable Sadie Sparrow is visiting Cornwall when she stumbles upon the once-proud Edevane mansion, now an overgrown ruin. Her natural curiosity is piqued when she learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared from the house without a trace, and she decides to seek answers from someone who was there, all those years ago. --Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long-consigned to the back of Grace's mind, begin to sneak...
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English
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Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching day, on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. Many years later, in London, a phone call summons Jess back to Sydney: her beloved grandmother Nora has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in the hospital. At Nora's...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded...
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Language
English
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Edie Burchill receives a letter that has lain for 50 years in a forgotten postal bag, and begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masked an old secret. She sets out to find the answers by tracking the letter back to its source, starting with the return address: Milderhurst Castle, Kent, where her mother had been taken as a child, during the London evacuations of World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe’s life is in ruins. Over one hundred and fifty years...