Charlie Hatton wanted fast money and conspicuous success, and he was prepared to cut any corners to get them. But before he could realize a single ambition, he was found dead at the edge of a river.
England
- Author:Rendell, RuthSummary:
- Author:Harry, LilianSummary:
When Stella Simmons comes to the Devonshire village of Burracombe to start her teaching career, she is alone in the world. This book begins with the story of life in a Devonshire village in the 1950s and shows us a picture of Britain...
- Author:Klassen, JulieSummary:
Lillian longs to soar beyond her provincial limits. After enjoying London's sophisticated society and the attentions of wealthy suitors, Lilly returns home to help her ailing dad. Determined to resurrect his apothecary business,...
- Author:Edwards, Ruth DudleySummary:
Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities. She instantly pressgangs Robert Amiss, her young friend and reluctant...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
When Thomas Pitt is tasked with playing bodyguard to Sofia Delacruz, a young and controversial British preacher who has been living in Spain and has returned to England on a mysterious errand, he thinks it's a waste of Special...
- Author:Doyle, Arthur ConanSummary:
Thirteen tales featuring fascinating suspects, enigmatic clues and baffling crimes are deftly pursued and solved by Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
- Author:Doyle, Arthur ConanSummary:
Sherlock Holmes doesn’t actually wear a deerstalker hat in the original. Other fun fact: he’s addicted to cocaine. Come see what else you don’t know about the world’s most famous violin-playing, chain-smoking detective as he solves...
- Author:Vivian, Evelyn CharlesSummary:
Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny.
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
There's a serial killer on the loose, workinghis way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarkein Churston....
- Author:Hardy, ThomasSummary:
What do sexual violation, murderous farm implements, and Stonehenge all have in common? Thomas Hardy’s classic heartbreaker. On the one hand, this might be the most depressing novel you’ll ever read. On the other hand, women have come a...
- Author:Fowler, ChristopherSummary:
A controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--it's business as usual for the Peculiar Crimes Unit's partners. Arthur Bryant and John May. But...
- Author:Edwards, Ruth DudleySummary:
The House of Lords will never be the same. Disinclined to watch her language or moderate her manners, “Jack” Troutbeck, assisted by her old friend Robert Amiss, plots vigorously with others to scupper an anti-hunting bill of which she...
- Author:Thomas, AudreySummary:
Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, “Tattycoram” tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her...
- Author:Hoyt, ElizabethSummary:
When prim and thrifty Eve Dinwoody agrees to control the purse strings of Harte's Folly, London's premier pleasure garden, she butts heads with the infuriating Asa Makepeace. But the harder Eve tries to manage him, the harder...
- Author:Rennison, LouiseSummary:
In a series of humorous diary entries, British teenager Georgia Nicolson tries to decide between two potential boyfriends--Masimo from Pizzagogoland (Italy) or local boy Dave the Laugh.
- Author:BARCLAY, TessaSummary:
Margaret is the breadwinner in her family. Then Margaret is made redundant. She's down and her marriage is in crisis; for the first time in her life, she sees herself as a no-hoper.
- Author:Frayn, MichaelSummary:
When a long-forgotten scent forces Stephen Wheatley to confront his past, he starts to remember a troubling childhood summer in wartime London where an imaginative child's game of playing spies wreaked havoc upon innocent lives....
- Author:Royal, PriscillaSummary:
As the autumn storms of 1271 ravage the East Anglian coast, Crowner Ralf finds the corpse of a brutally murdered soldier in the woods near Tyndal Priory. The dagger in the man’s chest is engraved with a strange, cursive design, and the...
- Author:FRANCIS, JuneSummary:
Plucky Lucy Linden is the mainstay of her family, selling firewood and toffee apples on the streets of Liverpool to support her widowed mother. Police constable Rob Jones, keeps a watchful eye over her, much to her annoyance.
- Author:Balogh, MarySummary:
During a rare white Christmas at Brambledean Court, the widow Elizabeth, Lady Overfield, defies convention by falling in love with a younger man in the latest novel in the Westcott series. After her husband's passing, Elizabeth...