Davina Porter
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Miniaturist novels volume 1
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On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. But her new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming. Johannes is kind yet distant, always locked in his study or at his warehouse office-leaving Nella alone with his sister, the sharp-tongued and forbidding Marin. But Nella's world changes when Johannes presents her with an extraordinary...
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In this darkly riveting debut novel - a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging - an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and her search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences. Maud, an aging grandmother, is slowly losing her memory - and her grip on everyday...
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In Victorian London, young Inspector Thomas Pitt searches for the killer of a strangled maid and finds himself attracted to the clever Charlotte Ellison, who is not only a member of the household in which the murder took place, but is also very much above his social class.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 6
Thomas Pitt volume 5
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 06
Thomas Pitt volume 5
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 06
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When Charlotte learns of her mother's distress in losing a locket with a compromising picture, she has no idea that it's just the beginning of a series of bizarre events that will end in sudden death.
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The bodies of two newborn babies have been found in a park in the fashionable London neighborhood of Callander Square. While Inspector Thomas Pitt is fighting to get the squire's aristocratic residents to speak with him, his pretty, well-born wife Charlotte decides to do some detective work of her own. Soon she is unearthing secrets in every house on the square while Thomas tries to discover what would drive a person to murder.
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When the womanizing aristocrat George March is found dead over his morning coffee, the immediate concern of his shocked Cardington Crescent household is quieting the scandal as discreetly--and quickly--as possible. Unfortunately for March's wife, Emily, that means accusing her of the murder. But the family does not take into account Emily's beloved sister, who is none other than the indomitable Charlotte Pitt. Together, Charlotte and her husband,...
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The sleuthing couple pursues a serial killer through Victorian London in an exciting entry in the “unfailingly rewarding” New York Times–bestselling series (The New York Times).
A serial killer is loose in the slums of Devil’s Acre. The murders are brutal, but it is the killer’s grisly signature that shocks even Inspector Thomas Pitt, no stranger to death and violent crime. The victims...
A serial killer is loose in the slums of Devil’s Acre. The murders are brutal, but it is the killer’s grisly signature that shocks even Inspector Thomas Pitt, no stranger to death and violent crime. The victims...
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 5
Mortalis
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 05
Thomas Pitt volume 06
Mortalis
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 05
Thomas Pitt volume 06
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English
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When the body of a boy is found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, Inspector Pitt is called to investigate. The boy was clearly upper class, so what was he doing in one of London's most dangerous slums? Before his death, the victim had been violated, a fact that makes it difficult for Pitt to question the boy's friends and family. Nevertheless, Pitt is shocked when the boy's parents refuse to answer police
11) Resurrection Row
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 4
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 04
Thomas Pitt volume 4
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 04
Thomas Pitt volume 4
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English
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It is a most incredible sight: a corpse sitting at the reins of a hansom cab--and not just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, this macabre apparition seems like sheer lunacy.
12) Bethlehem road
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"When three members of Parliament who voted against woman suffrage are crossing Westminster Bridge, their throats are slit, and Thomas Pitt needs Charlotte's help to solve the murder."--from NoveList.
13) Paragon walk
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In the affluent London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable and baffling crime was committed: a young woman was raped and murdered. Once again the incomparable team of Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As the elegant masks of the aristocratic suspects begin to slip, it became appallingly clear that something ugly lurked behind the handsome facades of Paragon Walk - something that could lead...