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In this gripping child-in-danger story, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, investigate the kidnapping of a friend's little girl from an Italian marketplace. With both her job and the life of a little girl on the line, Barbara must decide what matters most, and how far she's willing to go to protect it.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Discovering the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, Inspector Vera Stanhope, hoping that she has uncovered a simple natural-causes death, subsequently finds strangle bruises that reveal that the victim was murdered.
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English
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In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets,...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
The sleuthing widow, Sheila Malory, leaves her cozy English village for a university in Pennsylvania to teach a course in literature. While there she investigates a murder, in the process providing a British perspective on American life. By the author of Mrs. Malory and the Festival Murders.
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Mary Russell novel volume 11
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English
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"As Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes embark on their 11th adventure together, they find themselves immersed in the world of silent filmmaking. Here, the pirates are real-- and unlike the shooting done with a camera, this sort can be deadly"--Publisher's web site.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lori Shepherd's debonair father-in-law has moved to town and is renovating Fairworth House, a grand estate nearby. But once things get truly peculiar at Fairworth--moving furniture, strange sounds, and mysterious visitors--Lori calls on Aunt Dimity for her otherworldly guidance.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Traveling up the Yorkshire coast with her husband and his acting troupe, Caroline, the mother of Charlotte Pitt, anticipates their arrival at the famed fishing village landing sight of Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's tale and develops an awareness about inviting and disallowing evil.
18) The diamond cat
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995
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English
Description
As she is bringing in cats from a storm, Bettina Bilby, who cat sits for neighbors, finds a carrier pigeon killed by the storm. Lo and behold, its carrier tube is filled with diamonds. The next day strange people turn up claiming to be market researchers. What is Bettina to do, report the find to the police or keep it?
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat. Vera...
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Investigator Vera Stanhope searches for a young man's killer and uncovers a small town's secrets.
On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. The stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team baffled ... and intrigued. Meanwhile, the killer prepares for another watery grave ......
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