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The Vikings want to finish England. They assemble the Great Army, whose one ambition is to conquer Wessex. Dispossessed young nobleman Uhtred has no love for King Alfred. Yet fate, as Uhtred learns, has its own imperatives, and when the Vikings attack out of a wintry darkness to shatter the last English kingdom, Uhtred finds himself at Alfred's side.
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"Cantankerous and vinegar-tongued Grandmama, from Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, is the leading character in this Christmas novel, which unfolds in the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes off the English Channel. Grandmama arrives on a holiday visit to the home of Charlotte's parents, where a fellow guest--an outcast from her own family--is subsequently murdered. Like the heroes before her in Anne Perry's Christmas novels, Grandmama is...
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Dominic and Clarice Corde, instead of replacing the local vicar of a quaint hamlet who is away on holiday, find his corpse stashed in the cellar and must now solve his murder, instead of fulfilling his duties as the residents are trapped in the dangerously snowbound village with a killer at large. The surprising solution reveals the true meaning of the Christmas message in addition to the killer.
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2007
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Calamity confronts two big life transitions when her father dies and she starts menopause.
What's in a name? A lot, according to Caribbean-born Chastity, who has adopted the more fitting moniker Calamity. Now in her fifties, true to her name, Calamity is confronting two big life transitions: Her beloved father has just died, and she is starting menopause, a physical shift that has rekindled her special gift for finding lost things. Suddenly she is...
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Investigating the death of a woman that has been ruled accidental by the police but that her sister insists was a murder by a known perpetrator, a reluctant Nameless begins to suspect that the victim's sister is telling the truth when he learns unsettling facts about her life.