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Landing her personal hero and mega-best-selling author Essie Starling as a client, housecleaner Liv Green forms an unlikely friendship with this infamous recluse, but when Essie suddenly dies, leaving her an astonishing last wish, Liv discovers a connection between them that changes Liv's own life story forever.
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Train enthusiast Francis Humphreys was drawing his last breath while his relatives and neighbors were over for tea. But Inspector Witherspoon wonders: If everyone was downstairs, who could have stolen into Uncle Francis' second-story study, killed him, and escaped? Mrs. Jeffries will have to lend her downstairs common sense to this upstairs murder mystery - and hope that she and the Inspector don't get derailed...
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Inspector Witherspoon is perplexed. No one seems to know the identity of the dead man dressed like a vicar and propped up against the ouside wall of St. Paul's Church. A paper clutched in the corpse's hand reveals the address of a dilapidated and seemingly abandoned cottage--abandoned if you don't count the human skeleton stuffed in the chimney. To link these two biazrre incdients will take all of the resources at Witherspoon's command--and a little...
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A chambermaid in the house of Tremeshton, Faris Shayhan saw the future stretched long and desolate before her. When she moved to Loch Loland Castle with her new mistress Lady Rockrimmon, Faris first met the man of her dreams-- the rogue Highwayman of Tanglewood. Dressed in black and astride his mighty steed, the dashing rogue stole Faris's heart as easily as he stole her kiss. Could Faris truly own the heart of a man so entirely enveloped in twilight...
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Back Bay
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2006.
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In Tahiti, it's a well-known fact that women are wisest, mothers know best, and Materena Mahi knows best of allor so everyone except for her own daughter thinks. Soon enough, mother and daughter are engaged in a tug-of-war that tests the bonds of their love.
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Candlewick Press
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2015.
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Working in a big house owned by two refined ladies to support her mother and brothers, a young scullery maid in early-twentieth-century England borrows books and dreams of a better life before saving her employers from a kitchen fire.
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Apart from the crowd volume 2
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Miss Gertrude Cadwalader hoped her position as the paid companion to Mrs. Davenport would be easy. But as she becomes acquainted with her employer, she realizes the wealthy Mrs. Davenport has a strange tendency to be a bit light-fingered with other people's trinkets. Gertrude is relieved when Mrs. Davenport decides to have a quiet summer away from the social scene--until the woman changes her mind in order to help a young socialite launch into society....
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Mirabelle Daws travels from Australia to visit her sister, only to be stabbed to death in the middle of a locked garden. Only the residents have the keys to the garden, but the more Inspector Witherspoon and Mrs. Jeffries investigate, the more puzzled they become.
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The artist's model never showed up to Neville Grant's house, nor was expected according to the cranky Mr. Grant. But with all of his ranting and raving, and the sudden death of one of his house guests, Mrs. Jeffries has to work double-time to find the missing model and the killer.
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Barbara Neelys Smart, Sassy and Groundbreaking Crime Novel Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks bounce, she goes on the lam, hiding out as a maid for a wealthy family at their summer home. That plan goes awry when theres a murder and Blanche becomes the prime suspect. So shes forced to use her...
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