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Series
Crowther and Westerman mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
An intricate historical novel about a forbidding country estate and the unlikely forensic duo who set out to uncover its deadly secrets.
Author
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1717. Maija, her husband, and her daughters, Frederika and Dorotea, arrive in the Swedish Lapland from their native Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past and put down new roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them looms Blackasen, a mountain whose foreboding presence overpowers the valley and whose dark history haunts the lives of those who dwell in its shadow. While hearding the family's goats on the mountain Frederika...
Author
Series
Reincarnationist volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jac L'Etoile has always been haunted by the past - her memories infused with the exotic scents that she grew up with as the heir to a storied French perfume company. In order to flee the pain of those remembrances - and of her mother's death - she moved to America. Now, fourteen years later, she and her brother have inherited the company as well as its financial problems. But when Robbie hints at an earth-shattering discovery in the family archives...
Author
Series
Assassin's creed volume 5
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
1735 - London. Haytham Kenway has been taught to use a sword from the age he was able to hold one. When his family's house is attacked - his father murdered and his sister taken by armed men - Haytham defends his home the only way he can: he kills. With no family, he is taken in by a mysterious tutor who trains him to become a deadly killer. Consumed by his thirst for revenge Haytham begins a quest for retribution, trusting no one and questioning...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Club is a blistering, timely, and gripping novel set at Cambridge University, centering around an all-male dining club for the most privileged and wealthy young men at Cambridge and following an outsider who exposes the dark secrets of this group, the Pitt Club. As a boy, Hans Stichler enjoys a fable-like childhood among the rolling hills and forests of North Germany, living an idyll that seems uninterruptable. A visit from Hans' ailing English...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
""That's how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you're invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. Then you find something, something you should not have found." Irrepressible Biddy Leigh, under-cook at the foreboding Mawton Hall, only wants to marry her childhood sweetheart and set up her own tavern. But when her elderly master marries the young Lady Carinna, Biddy is unwittingly...
8) Night fire
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Series
Language
English
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"Arielle Leslie is a sixteen-year-old girl forced to wed Paisley Cochrane, a sadistic old man who abuses her. When he dies, she believes herself free. But she's not. Burke Drummond, Earl of Ravensworth -- a young man she'd worshipped three years before -- is home from the wars, and he wants her. When he catches her, he's in for an appalling surprise."--Publisher information.
Author
Series
Matthew Corbett mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The journey begins when Matthew, now an apprentice problem solver for the London-based Herrald Agency, accepts an unusual and hazardous commission. Together with his colleague, Hudson Greathouse, he agrees to escort the notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter from an asylum outside Philadelphia to the docks of New York. Along the way, Slaughter makes his captors a surprising--and extremely tempting--offer.
Author
Series
Bellman noir trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"The year is 1794. A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses, languishes in hospital. Some think he would be at home in the madhouse across the road. Ridden with guilt, he spends his nights writing down memories of his lost love who died on their wedding night. Her mother also mourns her and when no one listens to her suspicions, she begs the aid of the only person who will listen: Jean Mickel Cardell, the one-armed watchman. Cecil Winge is six months in...
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