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  • When he was wicked
    Author:
    Quinn, Julia
    Summary:

    Michael Stirling and his cousin John, the Earl of Kilmartin, are as close as brothers. However, Michael is secretly in love with John's wife Francesca Bridgerton. When John suddenly dies, Michael is wracked with guilt and pain....
  • Under a lucky star
    Author:
    Farr, Diane
    Summary:

    Derek Whittaker does not believe in love at first sight - until he lays eyes on Cynthia Fitzwilliam, the icy beauty known as the "Frost Fair." He alone perceives the warm & vibrant nature hidden beneath her chilly demeanor - but can...
  • Tuesday's gone
    Author:
    French, Nicci
    Summary:

    Psychotherapist Frieda Klein is called upon by DCI Karlsson to help solve a grisly murder in which the prime suspect is afflicted with a strange mental disorder. As the pair dig into the dead man's past, they find plenty of motive...
  • Timeless : an Alexia Tarabotti novel
    Author:
    Carriger, Gail
    Summary:

    Alexia Tarabotti, Lady Maccon, has settled into domestic bliss. Of course, being Alexia, such bliss involves integrating werewolves into London high society, living in a vampire's second best closet, and coping with a precocious toddler...
  • This is what happened
    Author:
    Herron, Mick
    Summary:

    From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense about one woman's attempt to be better than ordinary Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living...
  • The viscount who loved me
    Author:
    Quinn, Julia
    Summary:

    1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he' When it...
  • The violin lover
    Author:
    Glickman, Susan
    Summary:

    Set in Jewish London in the 1930s, Susan Glickman's The Violin Lover is written against the backdrop of Hitler's escalating campaign against the Jews. This beautifully written novel tells the story of Clara Weiss and Ned Abraham, "the...
  • The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    Author:
    Stevenson, Robert Louis
    Summary:

     Utterson and Enfield are worried about their friend, Dr. Jekyll, who has been spending his time on a mysterious research project. When they stake out Jekyll’s laboratory, they observe a known killer emerging. Now they must figure out...
  • The ruby in the smoke
    Author:
    Pullman, Philip
    Summary:

    In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
  • The rose in the wheel
    Author:
    Rizzolo, S. K.
    Summary:

    This well imagined, carefully detailed, and cleverly plotted debut draws on actual historical events of 1811 London. Regency London knows Constance Tyrone as the conspicuously celibate founder of the St. Catherine Society, dedicated to...
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Author:
    Wilde, Oscar
    Summary:

    Young and beautiful Dorian Gray wishes that a newly commissioned portrait would age in place of his splendid body. His wish is granted, and the newfound lack of consequence attracts him to dark deeds and decadence. A classic fable about...
  • The midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times
    Author:
    Worth, Jennifer
    Summary:

    An unforgettable story (and now a BBC TV series) of the joy of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the hope of one extraordinary woman.
  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    Author:
    Chesteron, G. K.
    Summary:

    Set in early 1900s London, this metaphysical thriller follows undercover officer Gabriel Syme and his secret involvement with Scotland Yard's task force that attempts to take down underground anarchists. In doing so, Syme encounters...
  • The innocent libertine
    Author:
    Bunn, T. Davis
    Summary:

    Eager to minister to the poor, well-bred Abigail ignores her parents' warnings and ventures into the slums of London. But instead of gaining converts, she causes a scandal when she ventures into a seedy theater. To save the family...
  • The hunters
    Author:
    Messud, Claire
    Summary:

    "A Simple Tale" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Germans for slave labor and eventually relocated to Canada as a displaced person. She struggles to provide her son Radek...
  • The Duke and I
    Author:
    Quinn, Julia
    Summary:

    Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the...
  • The deeds of the disturber
    Author:
    Peters, Elizabeth
    Summary:

    Amelia and Emerson settle in for a quiet summer in England. When a night watchman mysteriously dies in the British Museum, Amelia is on the scene with her trusty parasol, ready to do battle with a malignant mummy and a ghost from...
  • The Cater Street hangman
    Author:
    Perry, Anne
    Summary:

    The Ellison sisters were proper young Victorian ladies. In the foggy streets outside their peaceful home, five women were found horribly murdered. And Police Inspector Pitt found himself wondering if the Ellisons were in fact too good...
  • The case of the missing marquess
    Author:
    Springer, Nancy
    Summary:

    Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
  • The bride's necklace
    Author:
    Martin, Kat
    Summary:

    Knowing that she alone can protect her sister from the Baron Harwood, their lecherous stepfather, Victoria Temple Whiting snatches the family's heirloom necklace-believed to hold the power to bring great happiness or terrible tragedy-to...

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