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English
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Unfairly dismissed from her position as housekeeper for the grandest home in Mayfair, Mrs. King, along with an eclectic group of women, plans a daring heist on the night of the house’s highly anticipated costume ball, where she’ll get something she wants even more than money: the truth.
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Language
English
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When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and two perfect children, and as she embraces the new relationships and the perks of maturity, she must ask herself some difficult questions.
3) Knockout
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Series
Hell's belles volume 3
Language
English
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Description
One of the Hell's Belles--a group of vigilantes operating outside the notice of most of London--Lady Imogen Loveless, who has a penchant for experiments and explosives, meets her match in a brilliant detective who, caught up in her chaotic world, tempts her like no other.
Author
Series
Blackbird trilogy (Heather Graham) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Following in the footsteps of notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper, a killer is stalking the streets of London. FBI agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter must shine a light on the shadowy corners in a city almost 2,000 years old to draw out evil.
Author
Series
William Warwick novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Preparing to execute the most secret operation in their armory—transporting the Crown Jewels across London, the Metropolitan Police have 24 hours to stop a master criminal from pulling off the most outrageous theft in history—and expose a traitor in their midst.
6) Ilium
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A young woman unwittingly finds herself plunged into the world of international espionage when she becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a covert special operation coordinated by the CIA and Mossad.
7) Paper money
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In one suspenseful, action-packed day, fortunes change hands as an ambitious young reporter scrambles to crack the story. A suicidal junior minister, an avaricious tycoon, and a seasoned criminal with his team of tough guys all play their parts in a scheme that moves "paper money" around at a dizzying pace.
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Unable to resist the urge to rummage through her guests’ belongings, Tess gets more than she bargains for when she reads her newest lodger’s diary chronicling his obsession with a beautiful stranger and her compulsion to find the truth leaves her wondering who has truly been watching whom?
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Series
The Parisian Oprhan volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1940, Evelyne Redfern, a secretary for Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the cabinet war rooms, uses all of her amateur sleuthing expertise garnered from years of reading mysteries to solve a murder, teaming up with a cagey minister’s aide to expose a traitor in their midst.
11) Small worlds
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set over the course of three summers, Small Worlds follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanaian immigrant parents, brother to Ray, and best friend to Adeline. On the cusp of big life changes, Stephen feels pressured to follow a certain track-a university degree, a move out of home-but when he decides instead to follow his first love, music, his world and family fracture in ways he didn't foresee. Now Stephen must find a path and...
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Series
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English
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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
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled--the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across London, armed with a £200 cake, to win back her estranged teenage daughter on her sixteenth birthday. Because...
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Series
(Amanda-Jane).Emmy Lake chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away to war, Emmy Lake is now in charge of the advice column "Yours Cheerfully." Emmy is dedicated to helping readers face the increasing challenges brought about by over three years of war. The postbags are full and the magazine is thriving. When socialite Cressida Porter becomes the new publisher of the magazine, she fills the pages with expensive clothes...
15) The close
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At first glance, Jellicoe Close seems to be a perfect suburban street - well-kept houses with pristine lawns, neighbours chatting over garden fences, children playing together. But there are dark secrets behind the neat front doors, hidden dangers that include a ruthless criminal who will stop at nothing. It's up to DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent to uncover the truth. Posing as a couple, they move into the Close, blurring the lines between...
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