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Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Working as a private investigator after losing his leg in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike takes the case of a legendary supermodel's suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock star boyfriends, desperate designers, and hedonist pursuits.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community
With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate certain matters concerning a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village
Author
Language
English
Description
With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt's sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt. Leaving her husband and two children behind, Emily makes the long journey to an all-but-forgotten town in the county of Connemara, on the western coast of Ireland. She soon discovers that a tragic legacy haunts the once close-knit community.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge, and leads to the investigation of the deadly acts being conducted by the emerging Nazi Party.
Author
Series
Perveen Mistry novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
India’s only female lawyer in 1920s Bombay, India, Perveen Mistry, as the streets erupt in riots to protest British colonial rule, investigates the murder of a Parsi student at the behest of the suffering family while trying to save her own.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In August 1778 British-occupied Manhattan, Edward Savill, a London clerk from the American Department, must investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists caught on the wrong side of the American War of Independence, and soon finds himself dealing with a murder.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the body of an Indian woman is found in a south London canal, Maisie Dobbs is asked to investigate by the victim's brother, a task that takes Maisie into a dangerous, and unexpected, exotic world.
11) Ragtime Cowboys
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Summoned out of his quiet retirement by Wyatt Earp, former Pinkerton Charlie Siringo of prohibition-era Los Angeles becomes entangled in a conspiracy involving a powerful corrupt politician.
Author
Series
Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, investigates the identity of two corpses found in an ancient crypt with possible ties to William Franklin, the embittered son of American patriot Ben Franklin.
Author
Series
Elena Standish volume 5
Language
English
Description
Infiltrating Wyndham Hall, where the body of a longtime MI6 agent was found, Elena Standish, as Hitler’s control spreads across Europe, covertly investigates his murder, working to uncover the true loyalties of the people in the house while protecting her sister from her beau’s potentially dangerous relatives.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is not just the living who are prey to 1780s London's criminals and cutpurses. Corpses, too, are fair game - dug up from fresh graves and sold to men of science for dissection. Dr. Thomas Silkstone's unscrupulous rival, Dr. John Hunter, has learned of the imminent death of eight-foot-tall Charles Byrne, known as the "Irish Giant," and is obsessed with obtaining the body for his research. When Dr. Hunter is implicated in the horrific murder of a...
17) The jazz files
Author
Series
Poppy Denby investigates volume 1
Publisher
Lion Fiction
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Landing a job at The Daily Globe, Poppy Denby is tasked with completing a deceased reporter's unfinished story about the mysterious death of a suffragette years earlier, and she must uncover the truth before others are killed.
18) The widows
Author
Series
Kinship novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vowing revenge against her sheriff husband's killers in 1924 Ohio, Lily Ross offers help to a fellow widow and uncovers dangerous evidence revealing her husband's corrupt secret life and the complexities that triggered his death.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
When a happily married woman asks them to find a new wife for her husband before she passes away from cancer, and then shortly thereafter is believed to have taken her own life, the proprietors of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau in post-WWII London must make sense of this strange case.
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