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1) Dead beat
Author
Series
Kate Brannigan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bloody Brits Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a Thai boxing, rock-and-roll female private detective from Manchester. As a favor to her rock journalist boyfriend, Kate agrees to track down a missing song-writer Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realise that finding Moira is only a prelude to murder. Juggling her other cases, including a search to uncover the source of counterfeit...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Arcturus
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hercule Poirot rushes to France in response to an urgent and cryptic plea from a client. But the Belgian detective arrives just too late: the man who had summoned him is found dead on a golf course, stabbed in the back with a letter opener and wearing an ill-fitting coat with a mysterious love letter in its pocket. Strange circumstances multiply, culminating in the discovery of a second body stabbed with the same murder weapon. While the local authorities...
Author
Series
Mischief and matchmaking volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A...queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other"--
Author
Series
Jeeves and Wooster volume 12
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1990, c1954
Edition
First Perennial Library edition
Physical Desc
246 p. : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jeeves comes to the rescue when Bertie Wooster finds himself in possession of a stolen necklace, a possible trip to the altar with Lady Florence Craye, and facing the ire of Lady Craye's former admirer.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But after the death of her beau on the front lines and unexpected...
Author
Series
Lords of the Armory volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve years ago, brigadier Brandon Pearce, had to give up the girl he loved, Amelia Howard. Now he's the Earl of Sandhurst, but committed to stopping a criminal group that's threatening the lives of innocent people - including blackmailing Amelia's brother Frederick. Amelia is a grown woman with a past she desperately needs to keep hidden in order to save her brother Frederick's reputation. In an effort to avoid blackmail, Frederick needs to place...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Kensington trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One advantage of being caught up in a whirl of dress fittings and decisions about flower arrangements and breakfast menus is that Charlotte Sloane has little time for any pre-wedding qualms. Her love for Wrexford isn't in question. But will being a wife--and a Countess--make it difficult for her to maintain her independence--not to mention, her secret identity as famed satirical artist A.J. Quill? Despite those concerns, there are soon even more...
11) Once dishonored
Author
Series
Rogues redeemed volume 5
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Zebra Books Mass-Market Paperback Printing edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"A man who has lost his honor has nothing ... London, 1816. As a Royal Navy officer, Lucas Mandeville, Lord Foxton, has fought his share of battles on the high seas, followed by long years of imprisonment. But on this night, he'd rather be on the burning deck of a ship than in a ballroom, where it is just a matter of time before someone challenges him because of what happened on the Continent. A woman who has lost her reputation is nothing ... When...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sugar, Baby follows Agnes, a mixed-race 21-year-old whose life seems to be heading nowhere. Still living at home, she works as a cleaner and spends all her money in clubs on the weekends searching for distractions from her mundane life. That is until she meets Emily, daughter of one of her cleaning clients, who lives in London and works as a model . . . and a sugar baby, dating rich older men for money. Emily's life is the escape Agnes has been longing...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together on a very momentous day.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"In this irresistible and thrilling debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious death at an isolated English manor, embroiling her back in the dangerous world of tracking stolen artifacts. What antique would you kill for? Freya Lockwood is shocked when she learns that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and her estranged mentor, has died under mysterious circumstances. She has spent the last twenty years avoiding her quaint English...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A neurodivergent, hyperlexic book editor, Jo Jones, taking possession of a possibly haunted family estate in North Yorkshire, finds herself at the center of a murder investigation when the groundskeeper is found dead and a family portrait goes missing, and to clear her name, she must unearth the town's secrets-and her own.
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