A single word was scrawled across the wall in blood red letters. Holmes and Watson are deducing again.
England
- Auteur:Doyle, Arthur ConanSommaire:
- Auteur:Crombie, DeborahSommaire:
A week's holiday in a luxurious hotel is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But his vacation ends dramatically with the discovery of a dead body in the whirlpool bath. Despite a suspicious lack of cooperation...
- Auteur:Roberts, JasonSommaire:
He was known simply as the "Blind Traveller"--a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon and helped chart the...
- Auteur:Maxwell, CathySommaire:
Left pregnant and alone after a scandalous affair ends in abandonment, Leah Carrollton seeks refuge in the country, where she finds safety in the arms of Devon Marshall, Viscount Huxhold, who offers her marriage and a way to give her...
- Auteur:Forster, E. M.Sommaire:
Lucy Honeychurch is traveling in Italy with her overbearingly upright cousin Charlotte when a chance encounter with an unconventional father and son grant her a glimpse of a world beyond the repressive strictures of Edwardian society....
- Auteur:Laurens, StephanieSommaire:
Wealthy and roguish, Demon Cynster is perfectly content without love. Having witnessed his Cynster brethren driven to their knees by women, he knows all too well what the power of love can do to a man. But he never banked on meeting...
- Auteur:Bradley, AlanSommaire:
Flavia had asked the old Gypsy woman to tell her fortune, but never expected to stumble across the poor soul, bludgeoned in the wee hours in her own caravan. Was this an act of retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer had...
- Auteur:Laurens, StephanieSommaire:
Unlike his brothers, Vane Cynster vows to never marry. The eligible women of London have different plans for him, however. Seeking safety at Bellamy Hall, the residence of his eccentric godmother, Vane doesn't expect to meet any new...
- Auteur:Rendell, RuthSommaire:
Fifteen years after the event, someone wants a murder case re-opened and the police inspector's findings proved wrong.
- Auteur:Robinson, PeterSommaire:
Any of the demonstrators could have plunged the knife into Police Constable Edwin Gill, an unlikable man, but who had the motive? Was the knife meant for Gill the person, or Gill the policeman? Faced with a dizzying array of suspects...
- Auteur:DRABBLE, MargaretSommaire:
Sequel to "The radiant way", this novel continues the story of Alix, Liz and Esther and focuses on the industrial city of Northam in Yorkshire, where the problems and opportunities of eighties Britain are vividly encapsulated.
- Auteur:Harris, RosieSommaire:
Julia leaves home when she discovers she is pregnant. She finds work in a hotel. Eunice, wife of the manager, is also expecting. Julia's baby is stillborn but Eunice has a healthy baby girl, Amanda. Although heartbroken at the...
- Auteur:Winspear, JacquelineSommaire:
Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, Masie Dobbs will monitor any activities "not in the interests of His Majesty's government." When the college's pacifist founder is murdered, Maisie finds herself in...
- Auteur:Carre, John Le.Sommaire:
The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book-his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is...
- Auteur:Rendell, RuthSommaire:
On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective...
- Auteur:Defoe, DanielSommaire:
London's Great Plague of 1665 devastated the city, as Europe's final bubonic outbreak killed thousands of helpless citizens. Daniel Defoe, author of the classic Robinson Crusoe, was five years old when the Plague swept through London,...
- Auteur:Sisman, RobynSommaire:
Oscar-winning actress Paige Carson sashays off to London to try her hand at Shakespeare and prove she deserves more than bimbo roles. But stage acting isn't what the pampered star expected, and neither is her snooty landlord Ed. Still,...
- Auteur:Krahn, BetinaSommaire:
From award-winning New York Times bestselling author Betina Krahn comes a beguiling new romance brimming with her signature wit, timeless sensuality, and thrilling romance-as desire proves to be a great equalizer. Daisy Bumgarten isn't...
- Auteur:Todd, CharlesSommaire:
In this newest installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost. Spring, 1921. Scotland...
- Auteur:Gabaldon, DianaSommaire:
In which, a 17-year-old apprentice dealer in rare books is sent from Paris to England by her father, to obtain incunabula and medieval books of devotion-and whatever secrets of political intrigue or finance may come to hand in the...