Set in early 1900s London, this metaphysical thriller follows undercover officer Gabriel Syme and his secret involvement with Scotland Yard's task force that attempts to take down underground anarchists. In doing so, Syme encounters...
England--London
- Author:Chesteron, G. K.Summary:
- Author:Bunn, T. DavisSummary:
Eager to minister to the poor, well-bred Abigail ignores her parents' warnings and ventures into the slums of London. But instead of gaining converts, she causes a scandal when she ventures into a seedy theater. To save the family...
- Author:Messud, ClaireSummary:
"A Simple Tale" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Germans for slave labor and eventually relocated to Canada as a displaced person. She struggles to provide her son Radek...
- Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary:
Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the...
- Author:Peters, ElizabethSummary:
Amelia and Emerson settle in for a quiet summer in England. When a night watchman mysteriously dies in the British Museum, Amelia is on the scene with her trusty parasol, ready to do battle with a malignant mummy and a ghost from...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
The Ellison sisters were proper young Victorian ladies. In the foggy streets outside their peaceful home, five women were found horribly murdered. And Police Inspector Pitt found himself wondering if the Ellisons were in fact too good...
- Author:Springer, NancySummary:
Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
- Author:Ellis, JanetSummary:
Anne Jaccob is coming of age in late eighteenth-century London, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. When she is taken advantage of by her tutor — a great friend of her father’s — and is set up to marry a squeamish snob named Simeon...
- Author:Martin, KatSummary:
Knowing that she alone can protect her sister from the Baron Harwood, their lecherous stepfather, Victoria Temple Whiting snatches the family's heirloom necklace-believed to hold the power to bring great happiness or terrible tragedy-to...
- Author:Powers, TimSummary:
When Brendan Doyle is flown from America to London to give a lecture on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, little does he expect that he will soon be traveling through time and meeting the poet himself. But Brendan could do without being stranded...
- Author:Feather, JaneSummary:
Three friends who met at an elite English boarding school take on the town-and the ton-one by one, in this sparkling new series about love, loss, and lustrous gemstones, from New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather ... A FINE...
- Author:Thomas, AudreySummary:
Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, “Tattycoram” tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her...
- Author:Hoyt, ElizabethSummary:
When prim and thrifty Eve Dinwoody agrees to control the purse strings of Harte's Folly, London's premier pleasure garden, she butts heads with the infuriating Asa Makepeace. But the harder Eve tries to manage him, the harder...
- Author:Maniscalco, KerriSummary:
Audrey Rose Wadsworth often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers...
- Author:Ivory, JudithSummary:
In a steamy retelling of the well-known fairy tale, the beautiful courtesan Coco Wilde is famous for her ability to keep the wealthiest men in 19th century London hanging on her every smile. But she maintains a careful emotional...
- Author:Harkness, Deborah E.Summary:
Reluctant witch Diana Bishop and geneticist vampire Matthew Clairmont are surrounded by spies and secrecy in Elizabethan London. As Diana seeks a tutor to help her master magic, Matthew must face a troubled past he thought he'd left...
- Author:Pullman, PhilipSummary:
In 1878 in London, Sally, now twenty-two and established in her own business, and her companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery surrounding the unexpected collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation...
- Author:Charles, KateSummary:
Life may not be getting any easier for curate Callie Anson, but it is definitely getting more interesting. Her relationship with policeman Marco Lombardi grows ever warmer, even though he seems to be keeping her at arms length from his...
- Author:Cope, GordonSummary:
FBI Agent Jack Kenyon is an expert at cyber warfare, in which hackers and secret government agencies leverage weak spots in the Internet to cause carnage to their enemies. Assigned to uncover an industrial spy ring trying to steal...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
In Rutland Place, a lost locket becomes the key to deadly secrets that lurk behind the opulent facade of one of London's most exclusive neighborhoods.
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