Sarah Nichols
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Political unrest permeates York at the cusp of the fifteenth century, as warring factions take sides on who should be the rightful king--Richard II or his estranged, powerful cousin in exile, Henry Bolingbroke. Independent minded twenty-year-old Kate Clifford is struggling to dig out from beneath the debt left by her late husband. Determined to find a way to be secure in her own wealth and establish her independence in a male dominated society, Kate...
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When amateur sleuth Augusta Peel receives a mysterious letter about a missing young woman, she can't resist helping with the search. But the case takes a turn when an art student is found dead in a Bloomsbury square.
Could the murder have something to do with Augusta's investigation? The more questions she asks, the fewer answers she receives.
Someone's hiding something. Has Augusta really got the time to discover what it is? She is supposed to...
23) Wickwythe Hall
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May 1940. Hitler invades France, a move that threatens all of Europe, and three lives intersect at Wickwythe Hall, an opulent estate in the English countryside-a beautiful French refugee, a take-charge American heiress, and a charming champagne vendeur with ties to Roosevelt and Churchill, who isn't what he seems. There, secrets and unexpected liaisons unfold, until a shocking tragedy in a far-off Algerian port binds them forever ...Wickwythe Hall...
24) Elizabeth I
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England's first Queen Elizabeth gave her name to an age. Inheriting a bankrupt, famished, and powerless country, she healed its religious rifts, replenished its treasury, redefined diplomatic guile, defeated the Spanish Armada, and inspired a new flowering of English culture. Her father, Henry VIII, beheaded her mother, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth was declared a bastard. As Henry kept marrying and discarding wives, she had to be adroit and canny to...
25) The Crusades
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Looking into the past, the Crusades seem incomprehensible. What combination of religious fervor, hatred of people of different faiths, and gall led Europeans of 1100 AD to make their way thousands of miles to conquer the Holy Land? Why did they continue for 200 years? How did the Crusades change the world? The intriguing story is peppered with colorful characters. Over the centuries, this well-researched and written book argues, crusaders saw-and...
26) Henry VIII
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Henry VIII ruled England from 1509 to 1547. As a young man, he was fond of sports and hunting, and was said to be uncommonly handsome. Standing more than six feet tall, he loomed large in the lives and minds of his subjects as he navigated his country through the tricky diplomatic and military hazards of the sixteenth century. A man of enormous appetites, Henry conducted affairs with many women, married six, and executed two. His infatuation with...
27) Death in Soho
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It's the Roaring Twenties. London's bright young things are partying, Soho's nightlife is buzzing, and Augusta Peel is hiding in her basement.
She has a reason to hide there: it's home to her Bloomsbury workshop where she repairs old, neglected books. After a busy time during the war, all Augusta wants is peace and quiet-even if it is routinely disturbed by the tube trains beneath her feet.
But events take a turn when Augusta agrees to chaperone...
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Is airship travel safe? Not if there's a killer on board.
When business magnate Robert Jeffreys announces his investment in airships, he hosts a promotional flight for a group of reporters. Working undercover in the crew is retired spy Augusta Peel. She'd rather be working on her book repair business, but Inspector Fisher of Scotland Yard has persuaded her to help with a surveillance operation.
The press trip on the airship takes a turn when a body...
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A missing girl...
The manipulative aristocrat, Marcus Dreadbury.
A local gangster with a drug-dealing problem.
The Manor's locked room, with a dusty handle.
Stables, but with no sign of any horses.
A subterranean stream.
Marcus' madcap father.
And a Manor-House full of surprises.
Trench and Old Tom must somehow make the connection, if they are to succeed at playing find-the-lady...
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A chance meeting with a mysterious elderly man....
Who is Old Tom? A sad and lonely fusspot? Or a forgotten figure whose bewildering deductive abilities hint at something more? Does he ever leave his armchair? Why is he only ever seen or heard by engaging local newspaper reporter Trench? And what surprising secret are the Mayflower Court Flats really hiding?
Come on a challenging yet comfortable investigation. Can you solve the mystery without...
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Reservoir novels volume 2
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"A teenage girl has gone missing. The whole community has been called upon to join the search. And now an interviewer arrives, intent on capturing the community's unstable stories about life in the weeks and months before Becky Shaw vanished."--