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This Side of Murder

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Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman

Tessa Arlen · 433 pages

"Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months, and with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the most significant social occasions of the year is her happily accepted responsibility. But when her husband's degenerate nephew is found murdered, it's more than the ball that is ruined."--

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Touchstone

Laurie R. King · 560 pages

Hailed for her rich and powerful works of psychological suspense as well as her New York Times bestselling mysteries, Laurie R. King now takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall where a gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions begins with a visit to a recluse upon whom the fate of an entire nation may rest--a man code-named . . . It's eight years after the Great War shattered B

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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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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie · 190 pages

Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St. Mary manor of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed old aunt Emily, she of a sizeable fortune, to a suspicious younger man, Alfred Inglethorp, twenty years her junior. Emily's two stepsons, John

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Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

Stephanie Barron · 318 pages

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley · 375 pages

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found

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Maisie Dobbs

Jacqueline Winspear · 294 pages

Maisie Dobbs started as a maid to the London aristocracy, studied her way to Cambridge and served as a nurse in the Great War. It's 1929 and the first case for her newly established detective agency appears to be simple infidelity. Instead it leads her to confront a darker mystery from the past.

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Casualty of War

Charles Todd · 377 pages

Caring for an unstable soldier who believes his distant cousin is responsible for his injuries, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford investigates the patient's claims, only to find herself in unexpected danger.

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Think of England

K.J. Charles · 202 pages

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Murder Most Malicious

Alyssa Maxwell · 304 pages

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Urn Burial

Kerry Greenwood · 280 pages

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A Question of Inheritance

Elizabeth Edmondson

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Death in Paradise

Carolyn G. Hart · 304 pages

Six years ago, Henrie O's beloved newspaperman husband Richard lost his life on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Now, on a brisk March morning, a chilling message has arrived by Priority Mail claiming Richard's fatal fall from a towering island cliff was no accident--it was murder. Following cryptic clues and her infallible instincts to a lush and verdant tropical Eden--andto the lavish mountaintop e

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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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A Mourning Wedding

Carola Dunn · 256 pages

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A Rising Man

Abir Mukherjee · 386 pages

Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to head up a new post in the police force. He is immediately overwhelmed by the heady vibrancy of the tropical city, but with barely a moment to acclimatize or to deal with the ghosts that still h

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Murder on Astor Place

Victoria Thompson · 278 pages

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Murder at Rutherford Hall

P.B. Kolleri · 216 pages

On a cold November evening, Lord Rutherford disappears suddenly and unaccountably while his breathtakingly beautiful young wife, Celia, flees Rutherford Hall with blood on her hands. Rachel Markham, Rutherford's niece, and Jeremy Richards, a Scotland Yard detective, team up to help the local police force unravel the mystery.

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Murder at Lowry House

Leighann Dobbs · 266 pages

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A Fatal Waltz

Tasha Alexander · 307 pages

At her friend Ivy's behest, Emily reluctantly agrees to attend a party at the sprawling English country estate of Lord Fortescue, a man she finds as odious as he is powerful. But if Emily is expecting Lord Fortescue to be the greatest of her problems, she is wrong. Her host has also invited Kristiana von Lange, an Austrian countess who was once linked romantically with Emily's fiance, the debonair

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Death around the Bend

T E Kinsey · 315 pages

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Murder at Mansfield Park

Lynn Shepherd · 352 pages

A superb retelling of the Jane Austen novel in which the house at Mansfield Park becomes the scene of one murder after another and our meek heroine Fanny Price is recast as a forthright, ambitious, scheming and downright untrustworthy gold digger ...Murder at Mansfield Park is a witty and clever reimagining of Jane Austen's much-loved novel Mansfield Park. But in this Mansfield Park, things have c

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Fool Me Once

Harlan Coben · 400 pages

If your husband was murdered And you were a witness How do you explain it when he appears on your nanny cam? You thought you trusted him. Now you can't even trust yourself.

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A Front Page Affair

Radha Vatsal

New York City, 1915. Intelligent, well-traveled, and well-bred, Capability "Kitty" Weeks never expected to find herself reporting on fashion trends and society gossip, but every aspiring journalist has to start somewhere, and Kitty finds her "in" to the world of newspapers on the New York Sentinel Ladies' Page. Meanwhile, news headlines buzz about a shooting at J.P. Morgan's mansion and the sinkin

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