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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Unsettling connections between an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria and the gruesome murder of a petty thief lead Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field to a shocking conspiracy related to the publication of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species."
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Series
Language
English
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"It is not the custom for the commander of Special Branch to receive a royal summons so Thomas Pitt knows it must be for a matter of the gravest importance. The body of Sir John Halberd, the Queens confidant, has been found in the shallow water of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, bearing the evidence of a fatal blow to the head. At Her Majestys request, Sir John had been surreptitiously investigating Alan Kendrick, a horse-racing enthusiast who seems...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Elizabeth George, Louise Penny, and P. D. James, New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie delivers a powerful tale of intrigue, betrayal, and lies that will plunge married London detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James into the unspeakable darkness that lies at the heart of murder. Recently transferred to the London borough of Camden from Scotland Yard headquarters, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his new murder investigation...
Author
Series
Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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On a beautiful morning in mid-May, the body of a young woman is found in one of Notting Hill's private gardens. To passersby, the pretty girl in the white dress looks as if she's sleeping. But Reagan Keating has been murdered, and the lead detective, DI Kerry Boatman, turns to Gemma James for help. She and Gemma worked together on a previous investigation, and Gemma has a personal connection to the case: Reagan was the nanny of a child who attends...
6) Lifeless
Author
Series
Tom Thorne novels volume 5
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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The Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of London's Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39, is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder, old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered, and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even as Commander Adam Dalgiesh and his team investigate the first killing, a...
8) Buried
Author
Series
Tom Thorne novels volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Just before the Christmas holiday, distinguished London mathematician Henry Rathbone comes to the aid of an old friend whose son Lucien has gone missing. Enlisting the aid of Squeaky Robinson and Crow, Henry soon discovers that Lucien may be involved with a murdered prostitute and a major drugs dealer.
11) Dead alone
Author
Series
Jessie Driver mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
12) Dear departed
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
13) The burning girl
Author
Series
Tom Thorne novels volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
15) Nothing ventured
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer's #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . . William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister...
16) Bloodline
Author
Series
Tom Thorne novels volume 8
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Detective and country music lover Tom Thorne must thwart a serial killer who is targeting the children of victims of another serial killer from the past.
17) From the dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Reaching the end of her ten-year sentence for conspiracy to murder her much-hated husband, Donna Langford, who has paid to have him killed, receives an anonymous letter containing a photo of her husband very much alive.
Author
Series
Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 13
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The disappearance of a young mother, the murder of her Pakistani husband, and a child's life in danger lead Scotland Yard detectives Gemma James and Duncan Kincaid into London's legendary East End--a neighborhood where the rich and the poor, the ambitious and the dangerous, collide--to solve one of the most challenging and disturbing cases they've ever faced.
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Language
English
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When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Bill Slider must cut his vacation short when an old-fashioned gentleman is bludgeoned to death with a bronze statue.
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