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Author
Series
Harbinder Kaur novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by internationally best-selling author Elly Griffiths, a literary mystery perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Agatha Christie"--
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Natalka and Edwin are perfect if improbable partners in a detective agency. At eighty-four, Edwin regularly claims that he's the oldest detective in England. He is a master at surveillance, deploying his age as a cloak of invisibility. Natalka, Ukrainian-born and more than fifty years his junior, is a math whizz, who takes any cases concerning fraud or deception. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated. She loves a murder, as...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When four bodies are discovered in the same underground sewer 12 years after the events of A Sight for Sore Eyes, former Chief Inspector Wexford is pulled out of retirement to follow a complex trail to the original murders only to have his life thrown into turmoil by a devastating personal tragedy.
8) Casting off
Author
Series
Cazalet chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[1997], c1995
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A female Vicar named Sarah Hussain is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. Maxine, the gossipy cleaning woman who finds the body, happens to also be in the employ of former Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford and his wife. When called on by his old deputy, Wexford, who has taken to reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as a retirement project, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. Wexford is intrigued by the...
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Language
English
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Description
"Reeling from her parents' deaths, Lucy Claremont discovers an artifact in their London flat, leading her to a seaside estate. Aided by her childhood friend Dashel, a forensic astronomer, they start to unravel a history of heartbreak, sacrifice, and love begun 200 years prior - one that may heal them both"--Provided by publisher.
Lucy Clairmont's childhood fascination with stories of the high seas led her to become a marine archaeologist. When tragedy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The moment orphaned American heiress Titania 'Tansy' Danforth arrives on English shores she cuts a swath through Sussex, enslaving hearts and stealing beaux. She knows she's destined for a spectacular titled marriage, but the only man who fascinates her couldn't be more infamous--or less interested"--Page 4 of cover.
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Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1915, the sudden death of a young girl brings grief and notoriety to Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs. Years later, Josephine Tey returns to the same house--now much changed--and remembers the two women with whom she once lodged as a young teacher during the Great War. As past and present collide, with murders decades apart, Josephine is forced to face the possibility that the scandal which threatened to destroy those women's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury-a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton shroud. The post mortem cannot reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs. Although the police database covers a relatively short period of time, it stores a long list of Missing Persons....
16) The homecoming
Author
Series
Havenbury volume 1
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Maddy fled the idyllic market town of Havenbury Magna three years ago, the scene of a traumatic incident she revisits most clearly in her dreams. Even so, when she is called back to help at the Havenbury Arms when her godfather Patrick suffers a heart attack, she is unprepared for the welter of emotions her return provokes. Psychologist and ex-army officer Ben is sure he can help Maddy to resolve her fears, until he finds himself falling for her,...
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Series
Scott-De Quincy mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Aspidistra Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"1881, Sussex. Lady Helena Scott-De Quincy's marriage to Sir Justin Whitcombe, three years before, gave new purpose to a life almost destroyed by the death of Lady Helena's first love. After all, shouldn't the preoccupations of a wife and hostess be sufficient to fulfill any aristocratic female's dreams? Such a shame their union wasn't blessed by children ... but Lady Helena is content with her quiet country life until Sir Justin is found dead in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Over the years there have been several unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham, and Wexford (as a young policeman) quietly suspected that the increasingly prosperous Targo -- van driver, property developer, kennel owner, and animal lover -- was behind them. Now, half a lifetime later, Inspector Wexford spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence.
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