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1) Shatter
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Series
Language
English
Description
When Joe O'Loughlin fails to save a naked and distraught woman sobbing on a cell phone from jumping off a bridge into a flooded gorge below, he is shattered by the suicide, until her teenage daughter finds him and reveals that she never would have committed such a desperate act.
Author
Series
Peter Diamond mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
Detective Superintendant Peter Diamond pursues the killer of a young woman whose nude body was found floating in a lake south of Bristol.
Author
Series
Peter Diamond mystery volume 2
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Peter Diamond's search for a Japanese girl's identity leads to murder, drugs, and the Mafia.
4) Bloodhounds
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Series
Peter Diamond mystery volume 4
Language
English
Description
A participant in a literary discussion on crime in Bath, England, opens a book to find a famous stamp, stolen earlier from a museum, and shortly after he is killed. Officer Peter Diamond investigates the murder, taunted by a killer who is a prankster.
5) The vault
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Series
Peter Diamond mystery volume 6
Language
English
Description
Although "Bath is a town layered in history: Roman, Medieval, Georgian," when a skeletal hand is discovered in the ground of the Pump Room, Detective Superindendent Peter Diamond must investigate when it's proved to be from the modern era.--Jacket.
6) The summons
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Series
Peter Diamond mystery volume 3
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
Peter Diamond mystery volume 14
Language
English
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Description
When a competitive-bidding war for a rare carved stone is interrupted by three masked men who kill the highest bidder, Peter Diamond and his team investigate the carving's mystical origins while Ingeborg goes undercover to learn about the murder weapon.
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Series
Victorian book club mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Mr. James Harding was a lot of things--businessman, well-to-do, probable scoundrel--but a drinker he most assuredly was not. So when Harding is believed to have drunkenly fallen to his death into the icy River Avon, Lord William Wethington is immediately suspicious ... William entreats Lady Amy Lovell, a fellow member of the Mystery Book Club of Bath, to help him deduce what really happened to the late Mr. Harding ... But it won't be easy"--
9) Black sheep
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Description
High-spirited woman's objections to a fortune hunter's designs on her niece are heightened by the arrival of the young man's "black sheep" uncle.
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Series
Peter Diamond mystery volume 5
Language
English
Description
A young woman is dumped, injured and unconscious, in a private hospitals parking lot. She is an amnesiac with no memory prior to her discovery by hospital personnel. Detective Inspector Peter Diamond of the Bath homicide squad is unwilling to become involved. He has other, more important cases to solve: A woman has plunged to her death from the roof of a local landmark while half the young people of Bath partied below, and an elderly farmer...
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Series
Peter Diamond mystery volume 20
Language
English
Description
"If there's one thing Bath detective Peter Diamond has no patience for, it's a dumb git trying to get involved in one of his investigations--for example, a Philip Marlowe-wannabe private investigator like the self-styled Johnny Getz (his card claims he Getz results). But fate has saddled Diamond with this trial. A Bath antiques dealer, Septimus "Seppy" Hubbard, has disappeared without a trace, and his daughter, Ruby, has hired Johnny Getz to find...
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Language
English
Description
Lenora Wilton has spent her life hiding behind the keys of her beloved pianoforte and the vibrancy of her younger sister, Cassie. But Lenora is ready for a change and begins her journey of self discovery by traveling to Bath to live with her Aunt Gwen and teach music at an all girls' boarding school. When Lenora meets Aiden Asher, she finds herself attracted to him; unexpected feelings that become more complicated when she learns that Catherine --...
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English
Description
"There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a careful watch there, particularly on the entity that inhabits the ancient hot spring. This time trouble comes from the discovery of a sorcerous map, leading left-handed bookseller Merlin into great danger, requiring a desperate rescue attempt from his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien, and art student Susan Arkshaw, who is still struggling...
15) Ketchup clouds
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zoe, a teenager in Bath, England, writes letters to a death-row inmate in Texas, hoping to find comfort in sharing her guilty secret over the death of a friend with someone who can never tell her family.
16) Showstopper
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Series
Peter Diamond mystery volume 21
Language
English
Description
Since the start of the hit TV show Swift in 2013, its cast and crew have been plagued by misfortune. First, a star actress pulls out of the show before it begins--and by 2019, there have been multiple injuries by fall, fire, or drowning; two deaths; and two missing persons cases. The popular media around Bath, England, quickly decides it's a curse, but is it as simple as that? Is someone behind these fishy incidents? Peter Diamond, Chief Superintendent...
17) Bath tangle
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Earl of Spenborough has always been noted for his eccentricity. Leaving Fanny, a widow younger than his own daughter Serena is one thing, but quite another is leaving his daugther's fortune to the trusteeship of Ivo Barrasford, marquis of Rotherham -- a man whom Serena once jilted and who now has the power to give or withhold his consent to any marriage she might contemplate. Lady Serena Carlow is an acknowledged beauty, many eager suitors have...
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Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Lenora Wilton has struggled with shyness and social anxiety her whole life, but when she moves to Bath to teach music at an all-girls' school, she unexpectedly falls in love with the uncle of one of her most troublesome students"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
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English
Description
"May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript-about a baronet's daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain-cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a trial of the curative waters at Cheltenham Spa, in Gloucestershire. Jane decides to use some of the profits...
20) Renegade magic
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Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Kat tries to use her untrained magical powers to prevent use of the wild magic of Sulis Minerva found in Bath, England, where Stepmama has brought the family in hopes of finding Kat's sister a proper match.
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