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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must it have been like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that. This...
Author
Series
Eli Marks mystery volume 4
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Eli's trip to London with his uncle Harry quickly turns homicidal when the older magician finds himself accused of murder. A second slaying does little to take the spotlight off Harry. Instead it's clear someone is knocking off Harry's elderly peers in bizarrely effective ways. But who? The odd gets odder when the prime suspect appears to be a bitter performer with a grudge ... who committed suicide over thirty years before. While Eli struggles to...
Author
Series
Magpie murders volume 1
Language
English
Description
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s traditional formula...
Author
Series
Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James volume 19
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Trainee doctor Sasha Johnson hurries through the crowd in London's historic Russell Square. Someone jostles her as they brush past. A moment later, Sasha stumbles, then collapses. When detectives Duncan Kincaid and Doug Cullen are called to the scene, they discover that she's been stabbed. Kincaid immediately calls his detective wife, Gemma Jones, who is on the task force for knife crimes. Along with Gemma's partner, the team works to unravel the...
45) City of friends
Author
Publisher
Mantle
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new - one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home - she at...
46) Castles
Author
Series
Crown's spies volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned and besieged, Princess Alesandra is certain that a hasty marriage to an Englishman is the only thing that can protect her, but soon she catches the eye of Colin, the younger brother of her guardian.
Author
Series
Light the abyss volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Leyla McQueen rescued her father from Broadmoor, the illegal government prison-- but his freedom comes at a terrible cost. She is separated from Ari, the boy who has her heart. Across Britain, the fallout from Leyla's actions has escalated tensions between Anthropoid and non-Anthropoid communities. In uncovering the startling truths about their world, she discovers her own shocking past-- and the horrifying secrets behind her father's abduction and...
Author
Series
William Monk volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After witnessing something shocking, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
Author
Series
Parisian orphan volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one of the girls at work is murdered, and Evelyne must use...
Author
Series
Red widow volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The war in Ukraine is over, Vladimir Putin has disappeared, and Viktor Kosygin is the new Russian president. CIA agent Lyndsey Duncan travels to London to be closer to a top Russian mole who might be able to help the U.S. understand Kosygin's plans for the future. But almost as soon as Lyndsey lands at Heathrow, she's assigned to a task force investigating one of Russia's wealthiest men, Mikhail Rotenberg. Based in London, Rotenberg is married to...
Author
Series
Palace of rogues volume 4
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
She arrives in the dead of night, a mob out for blood at her heels: Mariana Wylde, the "Harlot of Haywood Street," an opera diva brought low by a duel fought for her favors. But the ladies of the Grand Palace on the Thames think they can make a silk purse from scandal: They'll restore her reputation and share in her triumph provided they can keep her apart from that other guest. Coldly brilliant, fiercely honorable, General James Duncan Blackmore,...
Author
Series
Rogues to lovers volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
To survive her difficult childhood, Miss Hazel Lively relied on two things: a tough exterior and a love of books. Now, she's realized her life-long dream of opening a school for girls. She's hoping the wealthy families who summer at the shore will entrust their daughters to Bellehaven Academy--and help pay for less fortunate students. All Hazel must do is maintain a flawless reputation. It's a foolproof plan ... until a handsome earl strides into...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Cleo Davenport has heard the whispers: the murmured conversations that end abruptly the second she walks into a room. Told she was an orphan, she knows the rumor-that her father is none other than the Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne. And at her childhood home at Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel, where royals, rulers, and the wealthy live, they even called her "The Princess." But her life is turned upside down when she turns seventeen. Sent to...
55) Fierce poison
Author
Series
Barker and Llewelyn volume 13
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
London, 1893, there is poisoner loose in the city, with deaths piling up, and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are apparently his next target in Fierce Poison by Will Thomas. Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker has just about seen it all--he's been attacked by assassins, his office has been bombed, and evil-doers have even nearly killed his dog. But never before has a potential client dropped dead in his office. When Roland Fitzhugh,...
56) One duke down
Author
Series
Rogues to lovers volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Miss Poppy Summers is determined to keep her family's fishing business afloat. Her poor widowed father has fallen ill, and her foolhardy brother has moved to London, leaving her precious little time to read or pursue her own dreams. But she'll do anything for her family, so she cheerfully spends mornings in her rowboat, casting her nets. The very last thing Poppy expects or wants to find tangled in them is a dangerously attractive man. Especially...
Author
Series
Hawthorne and Horowitz volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Invited to an exclusive literary festival on an island off the English coast, Hawthorne and Horowitz find themselves investigating a murder amidst a local feud over a disruptive power line.
58) Dance with death
Author
Series
Barker and Llewelyn volume 12
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
London, 1893: Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are called in to protect Tsesarevich Nicholas from nefarious forces as he travels to England for a royal wedding--in Dance with Death, the next mystery in Will Thomas's beloved series. In June of 1893, the future Nicholas II travels to London for a royal wedding, bringing with him his private security force and his ballerina mistress, Mathilde Kchessinska. Rumored to be the target...
Author
Series
Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James volume 18
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his wife, Detective Inspector Gemma James, have been invited for a relaxing weekend in the tranquil Cotswolds, one of Britain's most beautiful and historic regions, famous for its rolling hills, sheep-strewn green meadows, golden cottages, and timeless villages that retain the spirit of old England. Duncan, Gemma, and their children are guests at Beck House, the country estate belonging to...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
As a single mother of two, Faye O'Neill has no time for fairy tales. She's not even certain she believes in luck. Practical, smart, and desperate to escape a shadowy past, Faye takes a job at a top advertising firm in London where she hopes she and her children can find a fresh start. When she finds the beautiful two-story flat for rent in a stately old Victorian complete with a neglected but tumbling English garden, she can scarcely believe her good...
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