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61) After you
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the...
62) A name unknown
Author
Series
Shadows over England volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
1914. Rosemary Gresham has no family beyond the band of former urchins that helped her survive as a girl in the mean streets of London. Grown now, they concentrate on stealing high-value items and have learned how to blend into upper-class society. But when Rosemary must determine whether a certain wealthy gentleman is loyal to Britain or to Germany, she is in for the challenge of a lifetime. How does one steal a family's history, their very name?...
Author
Publisher
[JA / AG Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Captain Lacey is asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case - the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered unsolvable, but Thompson has long wished to find her killer. Captain Lacey joins him in the hunt, entering a part of society that is closed to outsiders. Meanwhile, he must deal with his daughter's debut and more developments in his new domestic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In every life there is a turning point ... For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. After a lifetime of chasing women ... he took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and hard into love it was a wonder he managed to remain standing ... Now Michael is the earl and Francesca is free, but still she thinks of him as nothing other than her dear friend and confidant"--...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Damnation has never been so sweet.... When Rosamund Tomkins enters the world with her darkling eyes and strange laughter, the midwives are afraid, believing her a changeling. But Rosamund's life is set to be anything but enchanted.... Born into poverty, brutalised and ignored by her family, it is only when she is married off to a nobleman that her life undergoes a transformation, as her husband recognises in Rosamund a magic she does not know she...
66) The seduction
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Beth lives in the tree-shrouded no-man's land by Camden Lock with her partner Sol and their daughter Fern. Life is peaceful, but Beth is troubled by increasing unease. It could be the uncertainty over her mother, who disappeared when Beth was a child. Or it could be her sense that Fern is keeping secrets from her. So she goes to therapy. Dr Tamara Bywater is there to help her patients. But what if the very person who is meant to be the solution becomes...
67) Diamonds & dust
Author
Series
Victorian murder mystery volume 1
Publisher
Little G Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a horrific murder takes place on a dark night in 1860's London, it changes two women for ever. New light is cast upon past lives they thought they knew so well, and suddenly their futures become intertwined. The death of her uncle will leave eighteen-year-old Josephine King an orphan, an heiress and the owner of a priceless diamond, The Eye of the Khan. For Lilith Marks, a chance finally arises to end her life as a highly paid prostitute and...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Are you my mommy? Tessa Markham returns home to find a child in her kitchen. He thinks she is his mother. But Tessa doesn't have any children. Not anymore. She doesn't know who the little boy is or how he got there. After contacting the police, Tessa is suspected of kidnapping the mystery child. Her whole life is turned upside down. And then her husband reveals a secret of his own... Tessa isn't sure what to believe or whom to trust. Because someone...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When notorious rake Anthony Bridgerton announces that he has chosen a prospective bride, he faces unexpected opposition when his intended's meddlesome sister Kate decides to protect her innocent sister from the wicked aristocrat.
71) Private London
Author
Series
Private novels volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private--the world's most exclusive detective agency--saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can't flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over again. In...
72) After the fire
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"London police detective Maeve Kerrigan has spent plenty of time at Murchison House. One of the many cement high-rise towers comprising the Maudling Estate housing project, Murchison Tower is home to a motley mix of society. From domestic abuse victims and elderly widows with nowhere else to turn to its flourishing criminal elements, Maeve is familiar with many of its occupants by name or reputation. But when a fire breaks out at Murchison House that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The gruesome murder of a young French physician draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his pregnant wife, Hero, into a dangerous, decades-old mystery as a wrenching piece of Sebastian's past puts him to the ultimate test. Regency England, January 1813: When a badly injured Frenchwoman is found beside the mutilated body of Dr. Damion Pelletan in one of London's worst slums, Sebastian finds himself caught in a high-stakes tangle of murder...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Claire grew up in a small town, far from the glamor of London. On the cusp of adulthood, she yearns for the adventure and independence of a counterculture taking root across the world. When she's offered the chance to start anew in Morocco, in a palace where famous artists and musicians have been known to visit, she seizes the chance. Arriving in Marrakesh, she's quickly swept up in a world of music, drugs, and communal living. And Tabitha Getty,...
Author
Series
Maeve Kerrigan novels volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Maeve Kerrigan is away for a colleague's wedding, and she's enjoying an excuse to spend a beautiful fall weekend relaxing in the English countryside. It's a much-needed break from the grit and grime of her daily life on the London police force. But even at a wedding, the job is never far away. Midway through the reception, Maeve and her abrasive but loyal partner on the police force, DI Josh Derwent, are called back to London. A fellow...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When eighteen-year-old Chloe Emery returns to her West London home she finds her mother missing, the house covered in blood. Everything points to murder, except for one thing: there's no sign of the body. London detective Maeve Kerrigan and the homicide team turn their attention to the neighbors. The ultra-religious Norrises are acting suspiciously; their teenage daughter and Chloe Emery definitely have something to hide. Then there's William Turner,...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"He meets women. He gains their trust. He kills them. That's all London police detective Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she is hunting. Three women have been strangled in their homes, and it appears to be the work of the same sadistic killer. With no sign of break-ins, every indication shows that the women let their attacker in willingly. The victims' neighbors and friends don't seem to remember anything unusual or suspicious, and Maeve is almost...
Author
Series
Publisher
[CreateSpace?]
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
Late December, 1818 As Captain Gabriel Lacey prepares for his upcoming wedding, his former neighbor, Marianne Simmons, comes to him about an actress friend who's gone missing. Lacey agrees to help look for the actress, little realizing that the search will pit him against men who think nothing of abduction, assault, or sending incendiary devices to the innocent. At the same time, Lacey's personal life is changing, and his time for investigation is...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Elizabeth George, Louise Penny, and P.D. James, New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie delivers a powerful tale of intrigue, betrayal, and lies that will plunge married London detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James into the unspeakable darkness that lies at the heart of murder. Recently transferred to the London borough of Camden from Scotland Yard headquarters, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his new murder investigation...
80) Nothing ventured
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer's #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . . William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister...