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2) Lost
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
On leave from the London police force after a traumatic ordeal at Oxford College, Lacey Flint resolves to help when children from her community who are linked to her ten-year-old motherless next-door neighbor are targeted by a brutal serial killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Anticipating a London season of dancing and campaigning for women's rights, Lady Emily Hargreaves investigates a blackmailing vandal who splashes red paint on the homes of elite citizens before revealing their scandalous secrets.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1931, the world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot, finds his plans for a much-needed, restful Christmas holiday thwarted by a murder investigation and has less than a week to solve the crime and prevent more murders while someone plans to wreak holiday havoc on his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
Investigating evidence of a violent struggle at the home of Ministry of Defense member Dudley Kynaston, Pitt and the Special Branch discover the brutally murdered body of a young woman before realizing that Kynaston is not who he appears to be.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Language
English
Description
Joe O'Loughlin investigates the murder of a married couple during a horrible London blizzard, but does not believe that the prime suspect--a troubled young man who reported the killings but cannot explain why he was at the crime scene--is really the killer.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Barbara Havers are drawn from Cambridge to London as they investigate any possible connections between the suicide of a young man who leaped to his death from a Dorset cliff and a murder by poisoning in Cambridge.
Author
Series
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt volume 27
Language
English
Description
When evidence of a mole within the Special Branch is discovered, Thomas Pitt realizes that he cannot trust anyone; while his boss, Victor Narrawy, learns that Charlotte's aunt's friend might have unearthed war-provoking secrets.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 3
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Psychologist-sleuth Maisie Dobbs is called in by Sir Cecil Lawton to investigate the mystery behind the death of his wife's aviator son during World War I, a mission that brings her face to face with a college friend with ties to the missing pilot.
12) Funeral in blue
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
When two women are found strangled in the studio of a London artist, including the wife of Dr. Kristian Beck, who is accused of the killing, William Monk, his wife Hester, and their close friend, Lady Callandra Daviot, set out to clear their friend's name.
15) Triple jeopardy
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Young lawyer Daniel Pitt must defend a British diplomat who's accused of a theft that may hide a deadly crime in this compelling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-one Days. Daniel Pitt, along with his parents, Charlotte and Thomas, is delighted that his sister Jemima has returned to London from the States for a visit. But it's not on the happiest of terms, since a violent theft just before her departure has left Jemima's...
16) Hasty death
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013, c2004
Edition
1st Minotaur Books pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
225 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lady Rose Summer refuses to abide by her parents' insistence that she marry. Even more distressing, she wants to work. On advice from Captain Harry Cathcart-a noble-born private investigator who knows Rose all too well-her parents agree to let Rose work as a typist and live in a women's hostel. But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose imagined: When a playboy is murdered, Rose will return to high society to follow a trail of deception, rumors,...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chef Carrie Ann Cole is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--an assignment as the new personal chef to the royal family at Kensington Palace. But no sooner has Carrie Ann touched down across the pond and donned her apron than a dead body crops up beneath the royal kale beds.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Gemma James and her partner, Duncan Kincaid, must navigate the shadowy and secretive world of London's moneyed society to discover a jewelry piece's connection to a murderer and a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany.
Author
Series
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 28
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitt's quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder.