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Author
Series
Ladies of the Manor volume 2
Language
English
Description
After a shocking attack, heiress Rowena Kinnaird feels betrayed by her family and the man she was to marry. She flees the Highlands, landing at the Duke of Nottingham's door. Rowena needs help but is hesitant to trust a flirt like Brice. Then she learns his life is also under threat. When her father locates her, can she and Brice find a way out of danger?
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"As Banks and his team follow what few clues they have, desperate to find the missing boy, who holds the key to the puzzle, they find themselves branching out in different directions. As the end game becomes a race against time, even Banks's team isn't safe from the rage of the hunted animal"--
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Torn from her mother to escape the impending Blitz during the summer of 1939, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate where she is drawn into the unraveling relationship of an enigmatic couple.
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"After the death of her parents, Evangeline must succeed as a schoolteacher in a remote region of Northern England in order to claim her inheritance from her grandfather and be reunited with her younger sister, Lucy. When a local bricklayer, Dermot, offers his help, she finds herself falling in love with the Irishman"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll flee their repressive boarding school, intending to start over in the theaters of Paris, but they instead find themselves at Cedric's estate in Yorkshire, where a hidden garden helps them realize their destiny.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered on a disused railway line near his home. He has 5,000 euros in his pocket, yet in the four years since his dismissal has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, much to the chagrin of his boss, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with...
Author
Series
Inspector Banks volume 26
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"In Eastvale, a young Middle Eastern boy is found dead, his body stuffed in a wheelbarrow on the East Side Estate. Detective Superintendent Banks and his team know they must tread carefully to solve this sensitive case. But tensions rise when they learn that the victim was stabbed somewhere else and dumped. Who is the boy, and where did he come from? Then, in a decayed area of Eastvale scheduled for redevelopment, a heroin addict is found dead. Was...
11) A fatal illusion
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Yorkshire, England. August 1832. Relations between Sebastian Gage and his father have never been easy, especially since the discovery that Lord Gage has been concealing the existence of an illegitimate son. But when Lord Gage is nearly fatally attached on a journey to Scotland, Sebastian and Kiera race to his side. Given the tumult over the recent passage of the Reform Act, in which Lord Gage played a part, Sebastian wonders if the attack could be...
12) The switch
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Leena is too young to feel stuck. Eileen is too old to start over. It's time for the switch. Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Newly single and about to turn 80, Eileen would like a second chance at love. But her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen.So Leena proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Connected through time to her great-grandmother by a shared English countryside home, an American nurse tries to piece together her family's tangled history. England, 2019: Audrey Collins knows only two things about her beloved grandmother's past: She was born into nobility and she immigrated to America at seventeen years old. So when Audrey inherits her gran's home in North Yorkshire, she arrives expecting a sprawling country estate fit for lords...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home. The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. But there is a treasure waiting behind...