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Author
Series
[Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop] volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First William Morrow paperback [hardcover] edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 341 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When tragedy strikes, a small English village must pull together to save Christmas.
It's a white Christmas in England, and Rosie Hopkins is feeling festive: Her sweetshop is festooned with striped candy canes, luscious chocolate boxes, and happy, sticky children, and she and her boyfriend are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their families. But when a tragedy strikes at the heart of their charming town, all of Rosie's plans for the future seem to...
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Series
Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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DCI Arthur St. Just and Portia De'Ath visit the quiet village of Maidsfell in Cornwall only to find it divided over plans to redevelop the seafront. After a heated meeting on the topic, Lord Bodwally, who is fiercely against the plans, is found murdered. St. Just finds himself compelled to investigate, but what secrets are hidden in Maidsfell?
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington Hardcover Edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As friends, the boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn't be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina. But as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they're the perfect match. 1920: Flying in the face of convention, legendary American adventuress Beryl Helliwell never fails to surprise and shock. The last thing her adoring public would expect is that she craves some peace and quiet. The humdrum hamlet of Walmsley Parva in...
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Language
English
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"This time, the feisty sleuth stumbles upon the victim of an unnatural death in a Cotswold village's famous natural spring. Who was the unlucky corpse? The Ancombe Parish Council chairman, and the only uncommitted member voting on whether to allow the Ancombe Water Company to tap into the town's spring. Add ex-fiance James, watery politicians, and slippery entrepreneurs to the mix, and you have Agatha up to her neck in a murky murder mystery." --Back...
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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Workman Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2006?], c1930
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
St. Mary Mead, a peaceful village where nothing ever happens, livens up considerably when the unpopular magistrate Colonel Protheroe is found dead, and Miss Marple discovers that a number of people wanted him dead
Author
Series
Castle Knoll files volume 1
Language
English
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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...
8) Hot to trot
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"When private investigator Agatha Raisin learns that her friend and one-time lover Charles Fraith is to be married to a mysterious socialite, Miss Mary Brown-Field, she sees it as her duty to find out what she can about the woman. Coming up empty, Agatha -- out of selfless concern for Charles, of course -- does the only sensible thing she can think of: she crashes their wedding, which ends in a public altercation. Nursing a hangover the next morning,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve...
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