Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the trail of an enigma: a young man called Mr Fox. But his identity is false, his links to society are invisible and his home yields no clues. All they know is that somehow he...
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Two small children are playing a game called "Witch-Hunter". They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard and wait for her to die. An hour later she is found dead inside the church. Bryant and May must...
- Auteur:Waugh, EvelynSommaire:
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, artistic inhabitants...
- Auteur:HILL, ReginaldSommaire:
Joe Sixsmith stumbles across a boy's corpse in a cardboard box and into more trouble than he's ever known. Soon his casebook is full to bursting: retired colonial Mrs C. demands to know how the boy got there; Gallie, the...
- Auteur:Perry, AnneSommaire:
When the body of a boy is found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, Inspector Pitt is called to investigate. The boy was clearly upper class, so what was he doing in one of London's most dangerous slums? Before his death, the...
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Auteur:Brett, SimonSommaire:"It's that glorious period between the two world wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is visiting the ancestral home of the Duke of Tawcester. When the ex-king's daughter is kidnapped, noblesse obliges the Duke's handsome, brave,...
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Auteur:Francis, FelixSommaire:Felix Francis, bestselling author of GAMBLE, returns with a gripping mystery in the classic Dick Francis tradition. Set in the cut-throat world of horse racing, Bloodline is a pacy thriller packed full of suspense, mystery and intrigue...
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Auteur:Rizzolo, S. K.Sommaire:In the spring of 1812, the Luddites are on the march, Lord Byron is taking London drawing rooms by storm, and Penelope Wolfe has become a lady’s companion. When one of the footmen turns up dead with a knife to the heart, Penelope and...
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Auteur:Dickens, CharlesSommaire:Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of...
- Auteur:Bauer, BelindaSommaire:
Twelve-year-old Steven is determined to put an end to his family's misery and find the remains of his uncle, who was believed to be murdered as a child by a local pedophile. Steven spends his days digging for clues around his...
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Auteur:Velton, SoniaSommaire:When Esther Thorel, wife of a master silk weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel, she thinks she is doing God's will, but her good deed is not returned. Sara quickly realizes that the Thorel household is built on hypocrisy and...
- Auteur:Denby, JoolzSommaire:
Billie is in her forties, running a little jewelery shop in Bradford, watching over her godson Natty, trying to live a quiet life, trying to forget her past. Because Billie has a lot of past to forget. She was a biker chick, one of the...
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Auteur:Kaye, AnnieSommaire:Javier is fulfilling his parents' wishes by serving as a soldier in the Spanish army — a duty that will take the young swordsman far from his beloved home and family to a planned invasion of England. In France, his unit awaits the...
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Auteur:Jennings, MaureenSommaire:November, 1940. Tom Tyler, Detective Inspector of the small Shropshire town of Whitchurch, is a troubled man. The preceding summer had been a dark one for Britain, and even darker for Tom's own family and personal life. So he jumps at...
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Auteur:Fellowes, JulianSommaire:Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's new legendary ball, one...
- Auteur:Perry, AnneSommaire:
When a moneylender named William Weems is murdered, there is discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he devoured. But the plot thickens when Inspector Pitt finds a list of London's distinguished gentlemen in Weems' office...
- Auteur:King, Laurie R.Sommaire:
King explores'Sherlock Holmes's initial meeting with Mary Russell. Holmes is in a decidedly dark temper as he searches the countryside for wild bees, until he meets the headstrong young woman who will become his apprentice and eventual...
- Auteur:Quinn, JuliaSommaire:
Sometimes you find love in the most unexpected of places... This is not one of those times. Everyone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. The two families have been neighbors for centuries, and as a child the...
- Auteur:Lindsey, JohannaSommaire:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey now reveals the tempestuous story of Jacqueline Malory whose furious desire for revenge leads to a confrontation with the handsome pirate who abducted her-and sparks a much steamier...
- Auteur:Lovesey, PeterSommaire:
In the seventeenth installment in Peter Lovesey's timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond digs deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous) icons: Richard "Beau" Nash, who might...
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