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DS Fielding and her team have quite a case to solve after discovering a series of deaths in Manchester resemble the work of a popular novelist.
Newly retired Hannah Sanderson loves reading crime novels, so when her favorite author, Jonas Burke, comes to town for a book signing, she wants to meet him. However, when she starts reading his latest novel, she finds that one of the crimes featured in it is too close to home.
When DS Sally...
Newly retired Hannah Sanderson loves reading crime novels, so when her favorite author, Jonas Burke, comes to town for a book signing, she wants to meet him. However, when she starts reading his latest novel, she finds that one of the crimes featured in it is too close to home.
When DS Sally...
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Lizzie Martin mysteries volume 7
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Ben and Lizzie Ross return in "a well-plotted and compelling mystery with lively characters and a strong invocation of fog-bound Victorian England" (Promoting Crime Fiction).
It is March 1870. London is in the grip of fog and ice. But Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross has more than the weather to worry about when the body of a young woman is found in a dustbin at the back of a Piccadilly restaurant.
Ben must establish who the victim is...
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Lizzie Martin mysteries volume 5
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In Victorian England, a Scotland Yard inspector and his wife investigate a condemned man's claim about a seventeen-year-old murder.
A hanged man would say anything to save his life. But what if his testimony is true?
When Inspector Ben Ross is called to Newgate Prison by a man condemned to die by the hangman's noose he isn't expecting to give any credence to the man's testimony. But the account of a murder he witnessed over seventeen years ago...
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Crime and criminals keep getting in the way of Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West's personal life. The woman he loves is living in his house, in his spare bedroom. It should be simple, but it isn't. He has a solution. A romantic weekend away, in a lighthouse on Clare Island. A stunning place, a beautiful woman. What could be more perfect? When one of the islanders dies in a bizarre and a tragic accident, West is roped in to help. But it isn't an accident,...
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This killer takes no prisoners... Recently promoted to Detective Sergeant, Nasreen Maqsood is given the case of a brutalised body found dead in a car park. When they discover the victim was dragged around the car park by a pick-up truck and the killer recorded the murder, Nasreen realises she has her work cut out. She also has a new partner, Alicia Weekes, and the two detectives don't get on. When the victim is identified, the case takes an interesting...
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It was to be the most important case of Morton Farrier’s career in forensic genealogy so far. A case that had eluded him for many years: finding his own father. Harley ‘Jack’ Jacklin disappeared just six days after a fatal fire at his Cape Cod home on Christmas Eve in 1976, leaving no trace behind. Now his son, Morton must travel to the East Coast of America to unravel the family’s dark secrets in order to discover what happened to him.
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282 pages
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Morton Farrier was no longer at the top of his game. His forensic genealogy career was faltering and he was refusing to accept any new cases, preferring instead to concentrate on locating his own elusive biological father. Yet, when a particular case presents itself, that of finding the family of a woman abandoned in the midst of the Battle of Britain, Morton is compelled to help her to unravel her past. Using all of his genealogical skills, he soon...
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105 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
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Morton Farrier has spent his entire career as a forensic genealogist solving other people's family history secrets, all the while knowing so little of his very own family's mysterious past. However, this poignant Christmastime novella sees Morton's skills put to use much closer to home, as he must confront his own past, present and future through events both present-day and one hundred years ago. It seems that not every soldier saw a truce on the...
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250 pages ; 23 cm.
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When Morton is called upon by Ray Mercer to investigate the 1911 disappearance of his great aunt, a housemaid working in a large Edwardian country house, he has no idea of the perilous journey into the past that he is about to make. Morton must use his not inconsiderable genealogical skills to solve the mystery of Mary Mercer's disappearance, in the face of the dangers posed by those others who are determined to end his investigation at any cost.
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256 pages ; 23 cm.
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Peter Coldrick, man without a past, hires Morton Farrier, forensic genealogist, to uncover the truth of Coldrick's family history. Unfortunately, the day after Farrier is hired, Coldrick turns up dead and someone wants Farrier to abandon the case.
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Lizzie Martin mysteries volume 6
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The sixth gripping Victorian crime mystery in Ann Granger's Inspector Ben Ross series.
On a cold November night in a Deptford yard, dock worker Harry Parker stumbles upon the body of a dead woman. Inspector Ben Ross is summoned from Scotland Yard to this insalubrious part of town, but no witness to the murder of this well-dressed, middle-aged woman can be found. Even Jeb Fisher, the local rag-and-bone man, swears he's seen nothing.
Meanwhile, Ben's...
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Lizzie Martin mysteries volume 4
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The fourth thrilling crime novel in the Inspector Ben Ross series, and a brutal killing that brings the murder very close to home...
When Mr Thomas Tapley is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room, his neighbour Inspector Benjamin Ross of Scotland Yard is immediately summoned.
Little is known about the elusive gentleman until Mr Jonathan Tapley, QC, hears of the news and the truth about his cousin's tragic past slowly begins to emerge. Meanwhile,...
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A Kind Assassin. A Stupid Prime Minister. A Prime Assassination.Leaders die.Assassin Brooklyn Collins manages children's football. She reads at nursing homes. Brooklyn plots a death.The UK's future depends on Brooklyn.A gripping, tense, unputdownable crime story readers will love.BUY NOW!
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An Election. A Far-Right Threat. One Woman To Solve It.An election needs fixing.Piper fixes elections. She discovers a far-right plot. Piper knows innocent lives hang in the balance.Can she stop the plot in time?If you enjoy enthralling gripping mystery crime short stories, you need to read this one!
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An Assassin. A Strange Group. Deadly Secrets.Reggie dies today.Assassin Reggie Lordwood stalks a target. He watches bright snow. Reggie feels growing darkness.Reggie faces shocking truths.A gripping, enthralling, shocking crime story hooking readers from first to last word. BUY NOW!
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Boldwood Books
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2020
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Is she alive, or is she missing for good...?
When the estranged daughter of Scotland's premier art dealer goes missing, Private Investigator Hanlon is hired to find out where she is.
But what she thinks will be a straightforward job, soon turns dangerous. The missing girl, Aurora, has a troubled past but what made her suddenly pack her bags and disappear?
Hanlon has her work cut out for her. The stakes are rising and she needs to get
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A Captured Prime Minister. An Impossible Situation. A Country In Trouble.Every country needs a hero.Former MI6 Officer Abbie arrives at a dire crisis. She sees police everywhere. Abbie knows she can help.The fate of the world depends on Abbie.If you love suspenseful, high-stake mystery stories. You will love this one!BUY NOW!
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How do you make sense of your mother who married five times or your father who left his birth family and changed his name? What do you do with three differing newspaper accounts of your father's death? How does your uncle, "the Dynamite Man," the most arrested gangster in St. Louis, fit into all this? In an intersection of Mormons and mobsters, Stevenson takes you on a journey of discovery that spans seven generations and two-thirds of the continental...
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