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"Complications arise when Marietta's secret love letters are accidentally found by the wrong man. 1828, the London countryside. For years, Marietta Stone has harbored a secret infatuation for the handsome Frederick Finch and has poured out her deepest feelings in a series of passionate love letters that she keeps in a locked drawer. But when Marietta's private letters are accidentally delivered to Frederick's house, she must retrieve them immediately...
Author
Series
Castle Knoll files volume 1
Language
English
Description
It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances's night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn't happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly...
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English
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"When the Duke and Duchess of Kent rent neighboring Woolbrook Cottage for the winter, the Summers sisters are called upon to host three of the royal couple's male staff in their seaside house. But they soon realize they've invited mysterious secrets and the sweet possibility of romance into their home. Meanwhile, Emily Summers approaches a local publisher in hopes of fulfilling her dream of becoming an author. When he turns her down, his dashing...
4) Towards zero
Author
Series
Superintendent Battle mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a house party gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head. As Superintendent Battle discovers, it is all part of a carefully laid plan-for murder.
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Series
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Arriving in England in a desperate search of investors to keep her family business afloat, American Leonora Garrison finds fate leading her to Viscount Wren and torn between desire and duty, risks everything to be in his arms.
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Series
JoJo and BowBow volume 8
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"JoJo is on tour! But that night at JoJo's big show, disaster strikes when JoJo's costume goes missing from the dressing room! Who could have taken it? JoJo thinks fast and the show goes on--at least until the next day, when the tabloids post images of aJoJo lookalike . . . wearing her missing costume around town! Who is the elusive doppelg�anger? And is she a superfan or superfoe? It'll take two BFFs and a perky pooch to sort out this mystery,...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Tony Gates is an exemplary cop. He's got the best crime stats on the force and a loyal team working under him. But the head of the police anticorruption unit, Superintendent Ted Hastings, has his doubts about Gates. Is he really that good? And more importantly, is he really that clean? Hastings decides to find out and all on a new arrival to his department, Detective Sergeant Steven Arnott to help him do it. As the net tightens...
10) Spider's web
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Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Bookspan large print ed.
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English
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Harper Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
When Rachel, a married and well-respected doctor living in a picturesque and affluent English village, embarks on a dangerous affair with a French painter who has a mental disorder, she finds her life blown wide open when he is accused of murdering one of her colleagues.
13) Murder is easy
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Harper pbk. [ed.].
Language
English
Description
"Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton has been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke is inclined to think so--until he reads in the Times of the unexpected demise of Wychwood's Dr. Humbleby..."--P. [4] of cover.
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Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple's house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes ... As each of her guests is mystified by the sinister tales they tell one another, the company is inclined to forget their elderly host. But there is a ruthless precision in Miss Marple's pursuit of the killers in each tale ... and a few surprises in store for 'The Tuesday Night Club'.
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
In this mind-blowing psychological thriller SJ Watson, the internationally bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep, explores themes of memory and identity as a young documentary filmmaker travels to a quiet fishing village to shoot a new film, only to encounter a dark mystery surrounding the disappearance of a local girl.
For generations Blackwood Bay, a quaint village in northern England, has been famous only for the smuggling that occurred along...
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Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Follow DI Humphrey Goodman and his fianc?e Martha as they leave London to navigate a new life together on the beautiful Devon coast. Our heroes are thrown in at the deep end as Martha pursues her dream of running her own restaurant and Humphrey takes up the vacant position of Detective Inspector at Shipton Abbott police station, an outpost of the Devon & Cornwall Police district. Quickly making an impression on his somewhat eclectic team, Humphrey...
Author
Series
Chantress trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
1st edition.
Language
English
Description
"Lucy faces her deadliest enemy yet as mysterious forces flood London"--
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
It only takes one strike . . . A powerful, beautifully illustrated feminist reworking of the classic fairy tale, from award-winning creators Emma Carroll and Lauren Child "You've got a lot to say for a little match girl." On the streets of Victorian London, Bridie uses her wit selling matches to help feed her family-but no matter how hard she works, it's never enough to stave off hunger or keep her ailing mother safe from the factory's toxins. When...
20) The holdovers
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
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