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Jaipur trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Escaping from an arranged and abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone from her 1950s rural village to the vibrant pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the henna artist-and confidante-most in demand to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her ownKnown for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who could...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In the midst of World War I, the residents of Styles wake one morning to find Emily Inglethorpe has been fatally poisoned. Captain Hastings, staying with the family, enlists the help of his old friend, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. With the evidence mounting against one member of the family, Poirot uses his technique to prove who really killed Emily.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Raised in an exclusive boarding school among Fifth Avenue's finest, Meg Davenport has all she's ever needed...but none of the things she's wanted most, like family, or dreams of a future that includes anything other than finding a suitable match. So when her distant father dies, she seizes the chance to throw etiquette aside and do as she pleases. Especially when she learns that John Davenport wasn't the wealthy businessman she thought, but one
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Series
Gilded Newport mystery volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
After a disappointing year in New York City, Emma Cross has returned to Newport, Rhode Island, determined to report on hard news. For now she's covering the social event of the season at Ochre Court, a coming-out ball designed to showcase Cleo Cooper-Smith, who will be on display as Cleopatra in an elaborate tableau vivant. As Cleo ascends to her throne the recently installed modern electricity goes out, plunging into room into darkness. When the...
12) Oolong dead
Author
Series
Tea shop mystery volume 10
Publisher
Berkeley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
13) Tumbling blocks
Author
Series
Benni Harper mystery volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
14) We that are left
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Coming of age in the shadow of their adored brother, two women of privilege respectively dream of visiting London and pursuing a university education before their lives are transformed by a physics prodigy during World War I.
16) Bittersweet
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Winning a scholarship to a prestigious college where she befriends a beautiful girl of privilege, unassuming Mabel joins her friend during a lakeside summer surrounded by wealthy vacationers only to discover morally ambiguous truths about her friend's family fortune.
17) West Heart kill
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
A remote, old-money hunting lodge. A raging storm. A locked room. Three corpses, discovered within four days. A cast of monied, scheming, unfaithful characters. When Detective Adam McAnnis joins an old college friend for the Bicentennial weekend at the exclusive West Heart club in upstate New York, he finds himself among a set of not-entirely-friendly strangers. Then the body of one of the members is found at the lake's edge; hours later, a major...
Author
Series
Gilded Newport mystery volume 2
Language
English
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Description
With the dawn of the twentieth century on the horizon, the fortunes of the venerable Vanderbilt family still shine brightly in the glittering high society of Newport, Rhode Island. But when a potential scandal strikes, the Vanderbilts turn to cousin and society page reporter Emma Cross to solve a murder and a disappearance.-- Provided by publisher.
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