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The Black Country

Alex Grecian · 384 pages

When members of a prominent coal-mining family go missing, Scotland Yard's Murder Squad teammates Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith, aided by newly arrived forensics pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley, investigate dark secrets and realize that the family's village is slowly sinking into underground mines.

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Plague Land

S.D. Sykes · 336 pages

"Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Dispatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen when his father and two older brothers are killed by the plague, Oswald has no experience of running an estate. He finds the years of pestilence and neglect have changed the old place dramatically, not to mention the attitude of the surviving peasants. Yet some t

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The Tarnished Chalice

Susanna Gregory · 512 pages

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Fever Season

Barbara Hambly · 416 pages

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The Thief Taker

C.S. Quinn · 413 pages

"The year is 1665...When a girl is gruesomely murdered, thief taker Charlie Tuesday reluctantly agrees to take on the case. But the horrific remains tell him this is no isolated death. The killer's mad appetites are part of a master plan that could destroy London, and reveal the dark secrets of Charlie's own past. Now the thief taker must find this murderous mastermind before the plague obliterate

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Morality Play

Barry Unsworth · 206 pages

It is a cold winter in the fourteenth century, and a young renegade priest, Nicholas Barber, joins an acting troupe who prepare to play the drama of their lives. Breaking the tradition of only performing religious plays, the group's charismatic leader, Martin, wants them to enact the brutal murder that has torn apart the rural village of which they have wandered. A young boy has been found dead, a

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The Deception at Lyme: Or, The Peril of Persuasion

Carrie Bebris · 303 pages

In Jane Austen's Persuasion, the Cobb--Lyme's famous seawall--proved dangerous to a careless young woman. Now it proves deadly. Following their recent intrigue at Highbury, Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy visit the seaside village of Lyme on holiday. Family business also draws them there, to receive the personal effects of Mr. Darcy's late cousin, a naval lieutenant who died in action. Their

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The Queene's Christmas

Karen Harper · 320 pages

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Murder on Fifth Avenue

Victoria Thompson

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A Woman of Consequence

Anna Dean · 383 pages

Refusing to believe that Penelope Lambe suffered a dangerous fall at an abbey ruin because of a ghost sighting, Miss Dido Kent uncovers a human skeleton at the scene and investigates clues linking the remains to Miss Lambe's accident.

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Death in Hyde Park

Robin Paige · 304 pages

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A Mortal Bane

Roberta Gellis · 352 pages

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The Devil's Door

Sharan Newman · 384 pages

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Superfluous Women

Carola Dunn · 320 pages

"In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"--brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men

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Smoke in the Wind

Peter Tremayne · 305 pages

In 666 bezoekt zuster Fidelma met een Ierse religieuze en rechtsgeleerde en haar partner, een Saksische monnik, een klooster in South Folk waar een moord en allerlei geheimzinnige gebeurtenissen hun aandacht vragen.

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O Jerusalem

Laurie R. King · 367 pages

Mary Russell once again teams up with Sherlock Holmes as they are pursued by murderous strangers through the bazaars of 1918 Jerusalem.

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Wine of Violence

Priscilla Royal · 248 pages

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In a Gilded Cage

Rhys Bowen · 276 pages

Irish-born detective and Vasser graduate Molly Murphy is hired to find out the truth about her friend's missionary parents' deaths and her loss of inheritance. Another Vasser grad has a philandering husband to track. Set in early 20th-century New York City.

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Angel with Two Faces

Nicola Upson · 426 pages

Inspector Archie Penrose invites Josephine Tey down to his family home in Cornwall so she can recover from the traumatic events depicted in An Expert in Murder. Josephine welcomes the opportunity, especially since Archie's home is near the famous Minack open-air theatre perched on the cliffs overlooking the sea. However, Josephine's hopes of experiencing a period of rest are dashed when her arriva

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The Beggar King

Oliver Potzsch · 466 pages

1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. Arrested and framed for the murder, Kuisl faces first-hand the torture he's administered himself for years. Jakob's daughter, Magdalena, and a young medicus named Simon hasten to his aid. With the help of an undergro

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The Ashes of London

Andrew Taylor · 496 pages

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Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie

Kathy Lynn Emerson · 256 pages

Left alone to handle the uproar following the poisoning murder of the steward, Lady Susanna Appleton, an expert herbalist, seeks to identify what killed the steward while unmasking the killer.

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Death Comes To Kurland Hall

Catherine Lloyd · 281 pages

Returning to Kurland St. Mary to help with a friend's wedding, Lucy Harrington is dismayed at the presence of Major Robert Kurland, but calls a truce with him when Mrs. Chingford, a meddling widow who had set her sights on Lucy's father, is found dead at the bottom of a staircase.

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