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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Georgie, back home at her estate in Eynsleigh, impatiently awaits the birth of her baby. But she has plenty to occupy her: her new chef, Pierre, has arrived from Paris, and Sir Hubert, who owns Eynsleigh, is back from his latest expedition. It's time for Georgie to throw her first house party to celebrate his return and show off her new chef. The dinner party is a smashing success. Sir Mortimer Mordred--famous author of creepy Gothic horror novels--is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves....
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Molly Murphy, having been arrested during a women's suffrage march and met two Vassar graduates while in jail, helps the women uncover information about their families--one wants to know about her inheritance, which she believes her uncle swindled, and the other needs proof of a philandering husband.
Author
Series
A novel of World War II volume 3
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper ... Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet "Lettie" Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it's a...
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon. It is only after they arrive that she suspects he has actually been sent there on an assignment. She tries not to be angry, because she is, after all, in a paradise! They are picked up in Nairobi and taken to a lovely house in Happy Valley--the center of upper-class English life there. Darcy finally confides that there have been some...
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful home in Patchin Place, filled with family, friends, and laughter. Molly and Daniel have a good marriage, a true partnership where they value each other's opinions in all things. So when he tells her they're moving...
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In Nice to recover the Queen's stolen snuff box, Lady Georgiana Rannoch participates in a Coco Chanel fashion show where a necklace also belonging to the Queen goes missing, forcing her to search for both priceless items and solve a murder.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
462 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal.
Nearly thirty years later, Hugo’s estranged daughter, Joanna, has returned home to the English countryside to arrange her father’s funeral. Among his...
9) Royal flush
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scotland, 1932. Back home until a little London scandal blows over, minor royal Lady Georgiana Rannoch has two equally important objectives. Queen Mary wants Georgie to keep the divorced, American, and entirely unsuitable Wallis Simpson from seducing the Prince of Wales, while Scotland Yard wants her to stop one of the members of the shooting party at Balmoral from turning their sights from the quails to His Royal Highness...
10) Bless the bride
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before the wedding bells can ring for PI Molly Murphy, a wealthy Chinese immigrant wants her to find his missing bride, and Molly---sure she isn't getting the whole story---suspects that his bride ran off. Set in early-twentieth-century New York.
11) Oh Danny boy
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
A novel of World War I volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
479 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woman's love and sacrifice during the First World War. As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage....
13) Heirs and graces
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While in the Australian Outback grooming a newfound heir, Jack Altringham, for high society, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself investigating the murder of the Duke who was found with Jack's hunting knife in his back.
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Molly and Daniel Sullivan are settling happily into the new routines of parenthood, but their domestic bliss is shattered when a gang retaliates against Daniel after he makes a big arrest. Daniel wants his family safely out of New York as soon as possible. Knowing she needs to protect their young son Liam, Molly agrees to take him on the long journey to Paris to stay with her friends Sid and Gus, who are studying art in the City of Light. But upon...
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
P.I. Molly Murphy sails for Ireland in search of the sister of an Irish-American impresario. The young girl was too sick to board a famine ship 50 years ago, and now the brother wanted to give his sister his wealth. Before the ship docks, Molly's maid is found murdered and a famous Irish actress, with a suitcase full of rifles, is missing. When Molly catches her own brother trying to collect the missing woman's luggage, she's unwillingly drawn into...
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Newly married Molly and her NYPD captain husband reluctantly honeymoon in 1904 Newport at the estate of an ambitious Tammany Hall politician whose subsequent murder challenges Molly's resolve to avoid sleuthing.
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Molly Murphy Sullivan's husband Daniel, a captain in the New York City police force, is stumped. He's chasing a murderer whose victims have nothing in common nothing except for the taunting notes that are delivered to Daniel after each murder. And when Daniel receives a note immediately after Molly and her young son Liam are in a terrible train crash, Daniel and Molly both begin to fear that maybe Molly herself was the target. Molly's detective instincts...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lady Georgiana Rannoch juggles secret missions from the Queen, Darcy, and her mother. But it's all in a day's work when you're thirty-fifth in line to the British Crown.
When Darcy runs off on another secret assignment, I am left to figure out how to travel to Italy sans maid and chaperone to help my dear friend Belinda, as she awaits the birth of her baby alone. An opportunity presents itself in a most unexpected way--my cousin the queen is in...
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Georgie is excited for her first Christmas as a married woman in her lovely new home. She suggests to her dashing husband, Darcy, that they have a little house party, but when Darcy receives a letter from his aunt Ermintrude, there is an abrupt change in plans. She has moved to a house on the edge of the Sandringham estate, near the royal family, and wants to invite Darcy and his new bride for Christmas. Aunt Ermintrude hints that the queen would...
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While serving as an assistant to the hostess of a large Christmas house party in Tiddleton-under-Lovey, Georgie gets the attention of her retired detective grandfather after dead bodies begin showing up.
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