Spring 1940. With Britons facing what has become known as "the Bore War," Maisie Dobbs is asked to investigate the disappearance of a local lad, a young apprentice craftsman working on a government contract. At the same time,...
London
- Auteur:Winspear, JacquelineSommaire:
- Auteur:Fowler, ChristopherSommaire:
Returning to the Victoria Cross pub hours after witnessing the murder of a woman, Detective Arthur Bryant is stunned to discover that the pub itself has vanished and the street around it has mysteriously aged, and calls in the Peculiar...
- Auteur:AviSommaire:
When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.
- Auteur:Vayden, KristinSommaire:
Dogged by gossip and scandal, Ramsey Scott, Marquess of Sterling, is the last man who should stand guard over lovely Miss Grace Morgan, much less fall for her. When the innocent's first outings of the season land her in Temptations...
- Auteur:Hollinghurst, AlanSommaire:
- Auteur:Crombie, DeborahSommaire:
While investigating the murder of a well-respected barrister who was found dead at a seedy hotel in Crystal Palace, Detective Inspector Gemma James and her partner, Detective Sergeant Melody Talbot, begin to question everything they...
- Auteur:COOKSON, CatherineSommaire:
Irene Baindor was a woman with a past, and her emergence at a respectable firm of London solicitors was to signal the unravelling of a mystery that had baffled the lawyer for twenty-six years.
- Auteur:Quinn, JuliaSommaire:
After falling in love with Nigel Bevelstoke, Viscount Turner, as a child because of his kindness to her, Miranda Cheever is reunited with him years later, finding a lonely and harsh man, devastated by loss, but she sees beyond the...
- Auteur:Fowler, ChristopherSommaire:
John May and Arthur Bryant are immersed in a case as bizarre as anything they've encountered during their storied careers. A baby has been thrown from the window of a locked room, and all the clues point to the room's only other...
- Auteur:Selvon, SamuelSommaire:
- Auteur:McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
Alexander McCall Smith brings his peerless wit to this second entry featuring a motley collection of residents in London's Pimlico neighborhood. Literary agent Barbara Ragg has agreed to represent a man writing a book about his...
- Auteur:CARLYLE, LizSommaire:
By day, Sidonie Saint-Godard is a quietly elegant young widow who teaches deportment to the unpolished daughters of London's nouveau riche. By night, she is someone altogether different -- the notorious Black Angel.
- Auteur:Galbraith, RobertSommaire:
Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator until John Bristow asks him to look into the death of his sister, supermodel Lula Landry, ruled a suicide by the police. The case plunges Strike into the world of...
- Auteur:CARTLAND, BarbaraSommaire:
The handsome Earl of Droxford relished all the privileges of being wealthy - and a bachelor. Now, because of King William's decree, he must be married within a month. "Find me a wife," he told his beautiful mistress....
- Auteur:Greene, GrahamSommaire:
- Auteur:Waddell, Dan.Sommaire:
Genealogist Nigel Barnes is recruited by Scotland Yard to investigate a group of puzzling, vicious murders. The victims all bear a message carved into their bodies that appears to refer to a series of 19th-century stabbings for which...
- Auteur:Perry, AnneSommaire:
When Thomas Pitt is tasked with playing bodyguard to Sofia Delacruz, a young and controversial British preacher who has been living in Spain and has returned to England on a mysterious errand, he thinks it's a waste of Special Branch's...
- Auteur:Fowler, ChristopherSommaire:
A controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--it's business as usual for the Peculiar Crimes Unit's partners. Arthur Bryant and John May. But this time...
- Auteur:Levy, AndreaSommaire:
- Auteur:Perry, AnneSommaire:
Inspector Thomas Pitt is asked to reopen a three-year-old murder case which occurred in London's luxurious Hanover Close. With his wellborn wife, Charlotte, to aid him in penetrating the well-known reserve of high society, the...
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