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East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England's brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha's husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure that the recent saber rattling over the Balkans won't come to anything. And Agatha has more...
163) A single thread
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English
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1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to...
164) Brunswick Gardens
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English
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In 1890s London, Superintendent Pitt of Bow Street police station investigates the death of a woman working as a researcher in a vicarage. An autopsy shows she was pregnant. There are three suspects, one of them the vicar, a married man.
165) The Book of Lies
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2017.
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English
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"Twin teen girls with very different upbringings meet for the first time at their mother's funeral. As they get to know each other, it becomes clear that one of the sisters is driven by a secret destructive power-or is it both?"--
166) An impartial witness
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Bess Crawford mystery volume 2
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English
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A murder leads World War I nurse Bess Crawford into the clutches of a wily killer.
167) Petty treason
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Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
Description
In the wake of the murder of the Chevalier d'Aubigny, morality-driven nineteenth-century investigator Sarah Tolerance discovers unexpected complications in a host of suspects, in a case that pits her against the brothels of London's underworld and the crown-threatening perversions of a duke.
168) 1984: a novel
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English
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Portrays a terrifying vision of life in the future when a totalitarian government, considered a "Negative Utopia," watches over all citizens and directs all activities, becoming more powerful as time goes by.
169) The summons
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Peter Diamond mystery volume 3
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English
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In Bath, England, an escaped murderer kidnaps a police chief's daughter and the chief appeals for help to Peter Diamond, the ex-constable who put the murderer away. A moment of sweet satisfaction for Diamond, now pushing supermarket carts, having been fired from the force for being cheeky to the chief. By the author of Diamond Solitaire.
170) A hard day's knight
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English
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Private investigator John Taylor finds himself suddenly the reluctant owner of the legendary sword Excalibur and must pay a visit to the Last Defenders of Camelot, who dwell in a place more frightening than Nightside, to find out why.
172) Consider the lily
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Faced with a need for money to save his estate, Hinton Dysart marries the heiress Matty Verrall, despite his love for Daisy Chudleigh.
173) Why shoot a butler?
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English
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A lonely old man is murdered in a quiet country lane, apparently shot as he was driving home. The bullet from the murder weapon penetrated his left lung just below the heart. The only witness to the crime is a pretty young woman with a loaded automatic in her pocket--soon to become the main suspect.
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Superintendent Battle volume 1
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English
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A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs of a recently deceased European count to a London publisher. But the parcel holds more than scandalous royal secrets. It contains a stash of letters that suggest blackmail -- and leads to the murder of a stranger who's been shadowing Anthony's every move....
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Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Torn from her mother to escape the impending Blitz during the summer of 1939, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate where she is drawn into the unraveling relationship of an enigmatic couple.
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Divorced American Charlotte Kinder takes a trip to Regency staged Pembrook Park in Kent where she plays parlor games, learns country dances, and even lets herself be courted by her assigned suitor, the brooding, magnetic Mr. Mallery. But her vacation becomes more Northanger Abbey when she catches a fleeting glimpse of a dead body in a secret room.
177) Scene of crime
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Series
[Lloyd and Hill mysteries] volume 11
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
Description
DCIs Lloyd and Hill investigate the death of Estelle Bignall, the wife of the local doctor and aspiring playwright).
178) After you
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English
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Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the...
179) Spider trap
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Series
Brock and Kolla novels volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
Description
Called in to investigate after human bones are discovered in a poor area of south London, D.C.I. David Brock and D.S. Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard discover that the victims had died more than two decades earlier, and follow a dangerous trail in search of Brock's nemesis, Spider Roach.
180) Skellig
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English
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Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.
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