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"From the award-winning author of The Day I Died and The Lucky One, a captivating suspense novel about nurses during World War II who come to Agatha Christie's holiday estate to care for evacuated children, but when a body is discovered nearby, the idyllic setting becomes host to a deadly mystery. Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway House--the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie--in disgrace. A terrible mistake at St. Prisca's Hospital in London...
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"London, 1942. A killer going by the name of "Crimson Jack" is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack- or merely a madman obsessed with those notorious killings? In desperation, Scotland Yard turns to Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective. Surely,...
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"December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 15
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When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice--Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie get out of Hitler's Munich in 1938....
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 16
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September 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address, he's shocked to come face to face with the killer. Dismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime, Freddie goes in search of a woman he once met when delivering...
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Desperate to distance himself from the stolen loot buried behind his parents garden shed and still grieving the sudden loss of Max his first real girlfriend, Byrney has decided to go to France with the sole purpose of locating a certain war grave. Moved by the recent death of an old work colleague Eve, Byrney hopes to find redemption for himself and at the same time reunite Eve's ashes with those of her deceased husband Paul Larouchamps, who'd been...
7) Tin Sky
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FOURTH IN THE MARTIN BORA SERIES.
SPELLBINDING MULTI-LAYERED CRIME NOVEL SET IN UKRAINE AS THE GERMANS REGROUP AFTER THE DISASTER OF STALINGRAD.
FOR FANS OF PHILLIP KERR (BERNIE GUNTHER SERIES), ALAN FURST (SPIES OF THE BALKANS).
THE HERO, MAJOR MARTIN BORA, IS AN ARISTOCRATIC GERMAN OFFICER OF THE ILK OF CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG, TORN BETWEEN HIS DUTY AS AN OFFICER AND HIS INTEGRITY AS A HUMAN BEING.
Ukraine, 1943. Having barely escaped...
SPELLBINDING MULTI-LAYERED CRIME NOVEL SET IN UKRAINE AS THE GERMANS REGROUP AFTER THE DISASTER OF STALINGRAD.
FOR FANS OF PHILLIP KERR (BERNIE GUNTHER SERIES), ALAN FURST (SPIES OF THE BALKANS).
THE HERO, MAJOR MARTIN BORA, IS AN ARISTOCRATIC GERMAN OFFICER OF THE ILK OF CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG, TORN BETWEEN HIS DUTY AS AN OFFICER AND HIS INTEGRITY AS A HUMAN BEING.
Ukraine, 1943. Having barely escaped...
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An accidental casualty of battle--or murder? August 1937, the Japanese have invaded northern Shanghai, and a fierce battle rages across the city, but the International Settlement is an island of safety. When an American seaman is found shot on the edge of the urban battleground, mere feet from the boundary, Doug Bainbridge is assigned to investigate for the navy. But what seems a case of foolhardy drunken daredevil sightseeing gone wrong becomes much...
9) Fell Murder
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Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
A classic Golden Age mystery from acclaimed author E.C.R. Lorac
'...this crime is conditioned by the place. To understand the one you've got to study the other.'
The Garths had farmed their fertile acres for generations, and fine land it was with the towering hills of the Lake Country on the far horizon. Here hot-tempered Robert Garth, still hale and hearty at eighty-two, ruled Garthmere...
10) A valiant deceit
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"While selecting her trained carrier pigeons for missions to aid the Belgian resistance, Olive Bright must also investigate the suspicious death of an instructor at a top-secret training school."--
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"As the Nazis' relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year-old Rose Sherbourne finds herself orphaned and under the guardianship of a Cornish farmer's daughter, Elenor Cardew. Elenor knows that the only way to protect spirited Rose is to leave the city and make a new life for themselves away from harm. But soon Elenor discovers that Hitler's firestorm is not the only thing she must fear when she learns a devastating secret about Rose...With...
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Thomas Danforth, the son of wealthy New York importer, becomes involved in a dangerous idea that could change the fates of millions. It is 1939 and Danforth is to provide access to his secluded Connecticut mansion, where a mysterious woman will receive training in firearms and explosives. When it all goes wrong and Anna disappears, his quest across a war-torn world begins.
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Henry Maynard has his hands full. Working for the British Military Intelligence (MI5) at the height of World War II, his task is twofold.Firstly, he has to find the informant reporting on the RAF's top secret radar equipment to the Germans. Secondly, he has to uncover the identity of the spy observing the Meteor jet fighter's development. His pursuit becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse. Anyone and everyone standing in the path of these precarious...
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When a young Army recruit is brutally shot with a peculiar bullet, police detective Dave Levitan is brought in to investigate his death. However, he quickly realizes that he is not dealing with a typical murder, that something deeply sinister is going on underneath the surface.The Subversive Detective is an intriguing adventure mystery set in Atlantic City in 1944 – a pivotal moment in both the Second World War and history as we know it. An honest...
16) Fallen Angel
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In Fallen Angel, author Robert Billings weaves an interesting tale of all the possible theories and elements behind JFK's assassination in a way that shows how they were all related and intentionally planted by one mastermind plot. The intrigue continues into contemporary times when a journalist discovers dark secrets about the truth of Kennedy's presidency and death in a recently discovered, long-hidden Kennedy memoir forcing him to consider the...
17) The Pink Lotus
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When wartime curfew means nightclubs lock their doors until six AM, partiers might get locked in with a murderer... Spring 1938. Douglas Bainbridge is certain he's finished solving murders. With the war moving on to the west, Doug's work for the Office of Naval Intelligence has quieted down, Shanghai has settled into an uneasy new normal under Japanese occupation, and the districts along the Great Western Road are booming with new dens of entertainment...
18) Web of Fear
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Professor Brendan Keane and Joanna "Jo" Lawrence have returned once more to Devon after several weeks abroad. Though yet another winter had pulled away from the English shores, mystery and suspense do not follow their retreat. As a young boy is found asleep in Keane's study, Lawrence is thrown headfirst into a maze of dangerous characters and desperate situations. She finds she must stagger forward alone, as her companion has abandoned her to her...
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December 1940. Down Street underground station, in the heart of London's Mayfair, is now a secret retreat for Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his cabinet from the relentless air raids overhead. In this supposedly secure location, the body of a woman is found, stabbed in the heart. The victim, fortune-teller Lady Za Za, did not see this one coming. Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are called to investigate but whispers of treason and...
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When a brilliant atomic scientist from Iowa suddenly disappears in 1948, Detective Dave Levitan is brought in to unravel the mystery as one of the Pentagon's best and most trusted investigators. But just who is the real George Kogan? Is he really the esteemed war hero people believe him to be or is the truth much more sinister? Could Kogan actually be a spy who has betrayed his country?The Reluctant Spy is the second novel in the Detective Dave Levitan...
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