Winner of the 1999 Whitbread First Novel Award 'Beautiful and brilliant' Tony Parsons Estate agent Frankie Blue is known on his home turf - White City, Shepherd's Bush - as 'Frank the Fib'. He's a liar -...
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- Author:Lott, Tim.Summary:
- Author:Curtis, RosieSummary:
Twenty-nine-year-old Jess is following her dream and moving to London. On her first night, Jess meets Alex, the guy sharing her floor, at a Christmas dinner hosted by her landlord. They don't kiss, but as far as Jess is concerned the...
- Author:Evans, LissaSummary:
It's late 1944. Hitler's rockets are raining down on London with vicious regularity and it's the coldest winter in living memory. In a large house next to Hampstead Heath, Vee Sedge is barely scraping by with a herd of lodgers to feed...
- Author:French, NicciSummary:
A group of housemates must determine the killer among them when a series of murders occur. As the difference between friend and stranger becomes vaguer, the line between attraction and danger thins.
- Author:Crombie, DeborahSummary:
Recently transferred to Camden from Scotland Yard headquarters, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his new team are called to a bombing at historic St. Pancras Station. As Kincaid gathers facts, every piece of the puzzle yields an...
- Author:Winspear, JacquelineSummary:
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,...
- Author:Fowler, ChristopherSummary:
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...
- Author:Jewell, LisaSummary:
When she was nine years old, Melody Browne's house burned down, and it took all of her childhood memories with it. Now she's a single mother of a teenage boy living in Central London. She hasn't seen her parents since she left home at...
- Author:AviSummary:
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.
- Author:Hollinghurst, AlanSummary:
- Author:Crombie, DeborahSummary:
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...
- Author:COOKSON, CatherineSummary:
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.
- Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary:
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...
- Author:Fowler, ChristopherSummary:
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...
- Author:Selvon, SamuelSummary:
- Author:Martin, MadelineSummary:
1940. As the Blitz rains down bombs night after night, a devastating attack leaves London's literary center in ruins. Miraculously, Grace's bookshop survives the firestorm. Through blackouts and air raids, Grace continues...
- Author:Matheson, NadineSummary:
Detective Inspector Angelica Henley is called to a crime scene that bears a striking resemblance to Peter Olivier, the notorious Jigsaw Killer, who has spent the past two years behind bars. And when he learns that someone is co-opting...
- Author:Thomas, SherrySummary:
Charlotte Holmes, Lady Sherlock, returns in the Victorian-set mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of A Conspiracy in Belgravia and A Study in Scarlet Women, an NPR Best Book of 2016. Under the cover of "Sherlock...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
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...
- Author:CARLYLE, LizSummary:
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.
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