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Royal Flush

Rhys Bowen

A Royal Spyness mystery starring Lady Georgiana, thirty-fourth in line for the throne—and the mystery world’s favorite penniless heiress. With its posh clientele in the country for the summer, Georgie’s housecleaning business has fizzled. So she tries hiring herself out as a dinnerand- theatre companion. But her first client has quite the wrong idea. To avoid further scandal, Georgie’s shipped hom

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India Black and the Widow of Windsor

Carol K. Carr · 320 pages

Spy for Queen Victoria, India Black, disguises herself as a servant to protect Her Highness from a possible assassination attempt by Scottish nationalists while spending the Christmas holidays in Balmoral.

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The Strings of Murder

Oscar de Muriel · 416 pages

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A Trust Betrayed

Candace Robb · 272 pages

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The Hanging Shed

Gordon Ferris · 300 pages

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Seven for a Secret

Lyndsay Faye · 470 pages

Timothy and Valentine Wilde must once again delve into the darkest underbelly of old New York. When the beautiful and terrified Mrs Lucy Adams stumbles into the Tombs, headquarters of New York's newly formed police force, it's the beginning of a dense, thorny maze of crime for copper star Timothy Wilde. He's hardened to the injustices of life in the unforgiving city he's grown up in, but that does

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A Rip Through Time

Kelley Armstrong · 352 pages

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Death at Victoria Dock

Kerry Greenwood · 176 pages

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Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains

Catriona McPherson · 293 pages

Receiving a letter from a woman who fears that her husband is planning to kill her, Dandy Gilver goes undercover as a maid and uses her aristocratic connections and prowess to discern the truth.

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The Wages of Sin

Kaite Welsh · 374 pages

"Sarah Gilchrist fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical school in 1892, the first year it admitted women. Determined to become a doctor despite the misgivings of her family and society, Sarah quickly finds plenty of barriers at school itself; professors who refuse to teach their new pupils, male students determined to force out their female counterparts, and-

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The Sudbury School Murders

Ashley Gardner · 295 pages

A former cavalry officer, Captain Gabriel Lacey accepts a position as secretary to Everard Rutledge, the officious, bullying headmaster of Sudbury School, to find the person responsible for a series of malicious pranks plaguing the institution, but things take a deadly turn when a stable groom is found dead.

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Legacy of the Dead

Charles Todd · 308 pages

Legacy of the Dead (Inspector Ian Rutledge #4) by Charles Todd The weathered remains found on a Scottish mountainside may be those of Eleanor Gray, but the imperious Lady Maude Gray, Eleanor's mother, will have to be handled delicately. This is not the only ground that Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard must tread carefully, for the case will soon lead him to Scotland, where many of Rutledg

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Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas

Stephanie Barron · 337 pages

"The twelfth installment in Stephanie Barron's fan-favorite Being a Jane Austen Mystery series. Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities,

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Death at Glamis Castle

Robin Paige · 338 pages

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Princess Elizabeth's Spy

Susan Elia MacNeal · 444 pages

"Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill's Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain's beloved royals against an international plot--one that could change the course of history. As World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, compl

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Hue and Cry

Shirley Mckay · 320 pages

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Edinburgh Twilight

Carole Lawrence · 444 pages

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The Redemption of Alexander Seaton

S.G. MacLean, Shona MacLean · 304 pages

Is the young man merely drunk or does his tottering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses, vomiting, over the two whores who find him on that dark wet night, they guess rightly that he's been murdered by poisoning. So begins the tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland, in the 1620s. The body of the victim, the apothecary's apprentice, is found in the house of Alexander Seaton - a

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The Harper's Quine

Pat McIntosh · 302 pages

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Star of the East

Tasha Alexander

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Deadly Promise

Brenda Joyce · 341 pages

Francesca Cahill is an American heiress. She also happens to be a political activist and an amateur sleuth (detective). Francesca finds out that there a girl missing from the streets and she fears that she may have been abducted. Along with finding her, she has also accepted Calder Harts proposal for marriage which puts her on the outs with Rick, the police commissioner and Harts brother. Howeve

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A Letter of Mary

Laurie R. King · 288 pages

An archeologist on a dig in 1920s Palestine discovers a letter purporting to come from a woman who was an apostle of Christ. A sensational document. When on her return to England the archeologist is murdered, sleuth Mary Russell decides to find out why.

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Silent in the Grave

Deanna Raybourn · 424 pages

"Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave."These ominous words are the last threat that Sir Edward Grey receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained for his protection, he collapses and dies at his London home, in the presence of his wife, Julia, and a roomful of guests.Prepared to accept that Edward's death

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