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Author
Publisher
Avon, a division of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From her bedroom in the Tower of London, twenty-six-year-old Maggie has always dreamed of her own fairy-tale ending. Yet this is twenty-first century London, so instead of knights on white horses, she has catfish on Tinder. And with her last relationship ending in spectacular fashion, she swears off men for good. And then a chance encounter with Royal Guard Freddie forces Maggie to admit that she isn't ready to give up on love just yet. But how do...
Author
Series
Walk through England mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Cozies
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Retired San Diego police inspector Rick "Chase" Chasen is still mourning the death of his longtime partner and tries to alleviate his depression by traveling to England for a walking tour of Devon with the Wanderers, a group of fellow Americans. He's eager to catch up with his old friend, a retired librarian, and meet new ones. Their tour guide is new to the company, and the travelers on the tour are excited to see north Devon. Business tycoon Ronald...
Author
Series
Lady librarian volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
1784 England. Officially hired as the librarian for the Duchess of Beaufort, Miss Tiffany Woodall is through with masquerades and murders for good. That is, until she stumbles upon the frozen dead body of former footman Mr. Bernard Coram. The speed withwhich her peaceful new life is upended is one for the record books: the justice of the peace immediately declares her the primary suspect in the murder. As Tiffany hunts for the truth to clear her name,...
Author
Series
Detective Kat Ballantyne volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years ago, a serial killer was on a rampage murdering young women in Middlehampton. Then, suddenly, the killings stopped, and the murderer was never found... So when the body of another young woman is found bearing the twisted killer's unique hallmark-the overpowering stench of lavender and an origami heart-DS Kat Ballantyne knows this can only mean one thing: the killer is back. For Kat, whose best friend was the killer's last victim all...
5) The trap
Author
Series
Publisher
Storm Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Erica Sands is called out to an isolated cottage in Dorset, England. A local woman, Jane Smith, has been found murdered in her home. At first, it looks like a burglary gone wrong, until Erica's attention is grabbed by a seemingly minor detail. A framed photograph of Jane's two cats--one black and one white--triggers a strange disquiet in Erica, which turns to shock when she discovers a cryptic note written in blood tucked beneath the frame....
Author
Series
(Cara L.)Antique hunter's guide volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
What antique would you kill for? Freya Lockwood is shocked when she learns that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and her estranged mentor, has died under mysterious circumstances. She has spent the last twenty years avoiding her quaint English hometown, but when she receives a letter from Arthur asking her to investigate-sent just days before his death-Freya has no choice but to return to a life she had sworn to leave behind. Joining forces with...
Author
Series
Lady librarian volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn't murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort's librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah's missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is discovered by Mr. Samir Lathrop, the local bookseller, who tries...
Author
Series
Operation Kinderspion volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible--become a British spy.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider and no one looks like her. While Jess and Richard settle into the village rhythm, the dramatic arrival of their twin sons recasts the family dynamic, stirring up...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It is an ordinary Monday and harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the door as usual. Preoccupied with work and her ever growing to-do list, she fails to notice her lovely husband Dan seems bereft, her son can barely meet her eye, and her daughter won't go near her. Even the dog seems sad. She is far too busy, buried deep in her phone; social media alerts pinging; clients messaging with "emergencies"; keeping track of a dozen WhatsApp...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren-which Jenny never had-Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into an unfamiliar world of cameras and timed challenges, Jenny delights in a new-found independence....
12) Naomi's room
Author
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Charles and Laura are a young, happily married couple inhabiting the privileged world of Cambridge academia. Brimming with excitement, Charles sets off with his daughter Naomi on a Christmas Eve shopping trip to London. But, by the end of the day, all Charles and his wife have left are cups of tea and police sympathy. For Naomi, their beautiful, angelic only child, has disappeared. Days later her murdered body is discovered. But is she dead?
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small English village of Glensted is at the party for hours before anyone realizes she is missing. While Alec brushes off her disappearance, their four children-especially fifteen-year-old Etty-grow increasingly anxious as the cold winter hours become days and she doesn't return. Then Etty and her friend Morgan find the body of Morgan's father-and the Salters'...
14) Rivers of London
Author
Series
Rivers of London volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he'll face is a paper cut. But Peter's prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter's ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective...
Author
Series
Castle Knoll files volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1965, Frances and her best friends go to a fortune-teller who predicts Frances' murder, causing her to start tracking friends and enemies alike. Decades later, Annie Adams has arrived from London to meet Great-Aunt Frances at her vast country estate near the village of Castle Knoll as she's just replaced Annie's mom as an heir to a family fortune. But someone has murdered Frances, and now Annie will have to sort through all of Frances' files in...
Author
Series
Expectant detectives volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Alice and her partner Joe want to raise their soon-to-be-born child away from the hustle and bustle of London, so they move to the idyllic countryside in the Cotswolds. All is not as calm and serene as hoped, however. Alice finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation when a dead body is discovered at a prenatal class she's attending. Together with the other three moms from the class, as well as her rambunctious, goofy canine companion Helen,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Natalka and Edwin are perfect if improbable partners in a detective agency. At eighty-four, Edwin regularly claims that he's the oldest detective in England. He is a master at surveillance, deploying his age as a cloak of invisibility. Natalka, Ukrainian-born and more than fifty years his junior, is a math whizz, who takes any cases concerning fraud or deception. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated. She loves a murder, as...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Victorian socialite Clara Stanton strives to protect her eccentric family's reputation, but that proves to be difficult when her grandfather takes off on a flight of fancy. Thrown together with vagabond tinker Theodore Kingsley, Clara sets off to follow her grandfather's whimsical adventure and finds love along the way.
Author
Series
Dr. M.E. Senty volume 2
Publisher
Pond Reads Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Meet the lovable and quirky residents of this idyllic 1959 Shropshire County village as Dr. Mary Elizabeth Senty arrives to join Dr. Harold Merton's medical practice. Detective Inspector William Donnelly has recently transferred to Bellechester from London's Metropolitan Police Service to deal with the rash of jewel thefts in the area. When local socialite Lady Beatrice Brantwell is enlisted to throw a gala as a ruse to flush out the thieves, she...
Author
Series
Stitch in time volume 3
Publisher
K.L.A. Fricke Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In Thorne Manor there is one locked door. Behind it lies a portal to the twenty-first century, and nothing is going to stop Miranda Hastings from stepping through. After all, she is a Victorian writer of risqué pirate adventures--traveling to the future would be the greatest adventure of them all. When Miranda goes through, though, she lands in Georgian England . . . and in the path of Nicolas Dupuis, a privateer accused of piracy. Sheltered by locals,...
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