When the wealthy Ludovic Degroof's jewelry store is broken into, nothing is stolen, but the jewels have been dissolved in jars of aqua regia, and a strange note is left in the safe. To solve the case, Van In and the beautiful...
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical
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Author:Aspe, PieterSummary: -
Author:Davis, LindseySummary:When Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer, encounters the young and beautiful Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses that something is amiss. He offers to help her and, in doing so, gets himself mixed up in a deadly plot involving...
- Author:Child, Lincoln, Preston, Douglas J.Summary:
FBI Agent Corrie Swanson takes on a new case involving a fifty-year-old, mummified corpse. Out of her depth, she soon realizes she needs the help of her foe-turned-ally, archaeologist Nora Kelly.
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Author:Hicks, RobertSummary:In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when her ambitious, politically minded grown son,...
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
Mary Russell is used to dark secrets-her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond. And what of...
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Author:Huie, M. L.Summary:Livy Nash is sent to France with one task: track down the traitor who killed the only man she ever loved. But the City of Lights is teeming with spies, and Livy quickly learns just how much the game has changed.
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Author:McCullough, ColleenSummary:It's August 1969 in Holloman, Connecticut, and police captain Carmine Delmonico is away on vacation. Back at home, two anonymous male corpses turn up, and are soon connected to four other murder victims. Luckily, Carmine decides to...
- Author:Rader-Day, LoriSummary:
Bridey Kelly has come to the holiday home of Agatha Christie to care for children evacuated from the Blitz. When a body washes ashore, Bridey is horrified to realize this is not a victim of war, but of a brutal killing.
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Author:Slaughter, KarinSummary:Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job, and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. It's clear the APD doesn't welcome women, and when a move is made to keep Kate out...
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Author:Chatham, VictoriaSummary:In the dirty thirties jobs were hard to come by. Having lost her father and her home in southern Alberta, Tilly McCormack is thrilled when her application for a position as a chambermaid at the prestigious Banff Springs Hotel, one of...
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Author:Laurens, StephanieSummary:Fate brings Marcus Cynster together with Niniver Carrick, a woman he knows cannot be his bride, regardless of how he feels about her. But as Marcus soon discovers, his fated role is to stand by Niniver's side and, ultimately, to...
- Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:
Years before the Great War summoned Bess Crawford to serve as a battlefield nurse, the indomitable heroine spent her childhood in India under the watchful eye of her friend and confidant, the young soldier Simon Brandon. The two formed...
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Author:Atkinson, KateSummary:War survivor Teddy Todd is a would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather who must navigate a rapidly changing world, living in a future he never expected to have.
