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The Conjurer by Cordelia Frances Biddle
THE CONJURER The debut novel in the elegant and richly nuanced
series featuring Martha Beale, a very wealthy young woman from
Philadelphia’s highest social circles. Set in 1842 THE CONJURER
begins with the disappearance of Martha’s father, famed
Philadelphia financier Lemuel Beale. Martha instigates a search
for him alongside Thomas Kelman, a member of the mayor’s
commission inspecting crime and corruption in Philadelphia. His
investigations into the ritual slayings of several young girl
prostitutes raise a likely suspect in the form of renowned
conjurer and clairvoyant, Eusapio Paladino...
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Deception's Daughter by Cordelia Frances Biddle
DECEPTION’S DAUGHTER, the second in the Martha Beale series.
When the daughter of one of Philadelphia's finest families
disappears, Martha Beale—the fiercely independent society lady
first introduced in THE CONJURER—once more joins forces with her
secret beau, Thomas Kelman, to track the heiress...
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Without Fear by Cordelia Frances Biddle
WITHOUT FEAR, the third in the Martha Beale series, exposes the
iconoclastic heroine to the grandiose – albeit sinister - realm
of the former Comte de Survilliers, Joseph Bonaparte, at his
estate Point Breeze on the Delaware River while also drawing her
into the dangerous world of Philadelphia’s textile workers. The
time is March, 1843; the city (“the Athens of America”) is a
place divided between the heights of culture and sophistication,
as epitomized by the Bonaparte family; and the depths of squalor
experienced by the mill hands and other common laborers.
When a headless corpse is discovered at Point Breeze, Martha is drawn into a shadowy world of mistaken identities and thwarted desires that transcend social class...
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Murder In Bloom by Lesley Cookman
When television personality Lewis Osbourne-Walker buys
Creekmarsh Place, near Steeple Martin in Kent, Libby Sarjeant's
son Adam is employed to help with the renovation of the garden.
What he doesn't expect is to uncover a long buried corpse...
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Murder In Midwinter by Lesley Cookman
Bella wants to know more about her family, particularly when a
body is found in her local theatre...
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Murder By The Sea by Lesley Cookman
When a body is discovered on a rocky little island in the middle
of Nethergate Bay the media swoop on the seaside town. Soon an
enquiring hack discovers that local resident Fran Castle, has
previously aided the police using her psychic abilities...
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Murder At The Laurels by Lesley Cookman
Could it have been murder? When old Eleanor Bridges dies on her
birthday as The Laurels nursing home, no-one except her niece,
Fran Castle, suspects anything. But when the will goes missing...
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A Terrible Enemy by Jo A. Hiestand
Year after year, the villagers near Stanton Moor celebrate May
Day with bonfires and the laying of rowan branches to seek
protection for home and cattle. But the men who gathered this
May evening hadn’t come for blessings. They had come for murder.
The dead body is discovered on a lonely moor, decapitated in the
fashion of a Muslim killing of sacrificial sheep or chickens.
Which focuses the suspicion on the Muslim community, since the
victim and his family are Pakistanis. Does someone in the
village resent these outsiders? Or is their small import shop
too much competition for another local business?
The CID Team from the Derbyshire Constabulary are called in to investigate and soon a series of decapitated animals--sheep and rabbits--appears on the moor. Is the sheep, the style of death or the location linked with the man’s murder...
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Murder At Longbourn by Tracy Kiely
Planning New Year’s resolutions to rid her life of all things
unhealthy, Elizabeth Parker dumps fatty foods, processed sugar,
and her two-timing boyfriend. An invitation to a “How to Host a
Murder Party” at her Aunt Winnie’s new Cape Cod B&B comes just
in time, rescuing her from a lonely New Year’s Eve with her
self-proclaimed bible, Pride and Prejudice. Upon her arrival,
Elizabeth finds a few surprises at Longbourn: the hunky young
British guest who seems very interested in getting to know her
and her co-worker and childhood nemesis, Peter McGowan, a man
she suspects has matured only in chronological years. All this
before someone is actually murdered at the dinner party...
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Death Of A Trophy Wife by Laura Levine
Freelance writer Jaine
Austen is moving on up! A cushy new advertising gig promises
champagne wishes and caviar dreams, but Jaine soon discovers
she’s not the only one in town who’s making a killing…
Without a job or a date in sight, Jaine is equally out of luck in finance and romance. So when her friend Lance offers to treat her to brunch at the Four Seasons, Jaine leaps at the chance like a fashionista at a pair of half-price Louboutins. They’ve barely made it through the menu when Lance spots his friend Bunny. Dressed like a million bucks—and probably worth twice that—Bunny is the new trophy wife of mattress maven Marvin Cooper. When Bunny generously offers Jaine a gig writing Marv’s new advertising campaign, Jaine accepts the job, and an invitation to her upcoming soirée. But at the party Bunny cruelly rules the Cooper mansion with a fist full of martinis, abusing terrified staff and her browbeaten husband alike. It seems like this society girl could use a good kick in the assets. Indeed, before the evening is over, someone poisons the D-cup diva. Dead must be the new black. The police arrest Lance, but Jaine knows his murderous urges end at her closet door. She sets out to clear his name and discovers a list of suspects longer than Bunny’s credit card bill...
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The Stranger In The Opera House by Helen Macie Osterman
Emma Winberry, The Accidental Sleuth, returns for another
adventure in The Stranger in the Dressing Room. This time she
and her significant other, Nate Sandler, are supernumeraries at
the Midwest Opera for an upcoming production of The Ghosts of
Versailles. This tile turns prophetic when the lead soprano
screams that there is a strange man lurking in her dressing
room. Although a police search turns up no evidence that anyone
was there, the cast and crew are left on edge. And nerves become
more frayed as the ‘stranger’ is seem again and again but never
caught despite numerous attempts to apprehend him. Emma’s sixth
sense tells her he may be more than he seems. The rehearsals
continue to be fraught with mishaps. When a large sum of money
is stolen from the office and a guard seriously injured,
everyone assumes it is the work of the mysterious ‘stranger.’
Everyone except Emma...
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Notes In A Mirror by Helen Macie Osterman
The year is 1950. The place is Hillside State Mental Hospital
located outside of Chicago. At the time, the treatment of the
mentally ill was archaic, consisting of hydrotherapy,
electroshock therapy, Insulin coma therapy, and, in the extreme,
pre-frontal lobotomy. Tranquilizers were not yet available.
Mary Lou Hammond and Kate Stephens were among the student nurses taking their three month psychiatric rotation at Hillside. Mary Lou is an extremely sensitive young lady. She begins dreaming about a woman in the early part of the century. The dreams tell a continuing story. Soon Mary Lou finds messages in mirror image writing from the woman in her dreams, Margaret Montague. She claims to have died in 1911. If this entity does exist, what does she want from Mary Lou...
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Merryll Manning: Trapped On Mystery Island by John
Howard Reid
The action takes place on an otherwise deserted island in the
Florida Keys, where a number of guests assemble in an old
Dominican Priory for a "mystery weekend"...
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Merryll Manning: The Health Farm Murders by John
Howard Reid
A mystery thriller, set against the spectacular scenic backdrop
of an imaginary health farm in the small mountain township of
Blackheath in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, west of
Sydney, Australia...
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Prophet, Priest And King by John Howard Reid
Thrilling action, suspense and mystery abound in this historical
novel, inspired by the books of Kings and Chronicles in the Old
Testament of the Bible. Highlighting the latter days of King
Solomon in the city of Jerusalem in Ancient Israel, the novel is
a real page-turner that moves with the speed of an arrow. In
addition to the aged King Solomon, Biblical characters include
Jeroboam, a former governor in Israel, accused of plotting
against Solomon and now exiled in Ancient Egypt...
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In All His Glory by John Howard Reid
Ancient Egypt is the setting for this mystery/suspense thriller
in which the Jewish exile, Jeroboam (later king of Israel), is
tricked by Pharaoh Shishak into not only helping him uncover the
murderer of his Chief Counselor...
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Secrets To Die For by L. J. Sellers
A brutal murder, a suspect with a strange story, a missing woman
with secrets to hide...
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Puckheads by Sue Swift
How far would you go to win your
lifelong dream?
When Zoë Whipple agrees to make a documentary about a hockey team’s season, she doesn’t sign on for scandal, crime and murder. But she discovers that players, rabid to win the championship, don’t let morality or the law stand in the way of their ambitions. When a rookie dies from cardiac arrest, Zoë is saddened but not suspicious until another player, in the grip of ’roid rage, goes berserk on the ice and ends up in the hospital. Digging into the mess reveals illegal painkillers and steroid abuse among most of the team...
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Murder @ Play by Yvonne Eve Walus
EVERY MARRIAGE NEEDS A TOUCH OF MYSTERY. OR DOES IT?
In the new free South Africa of 1994, men are still boss, women carry handguns for self-protection, and some mistakes can change your life forever. When a body is found during their weekend away with friends...
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The Fall Of Augustus by Sarah Wisseman
When Victor Fitzgerald is killed by a falling statue, Lisa
Donahue becomes Interim Director of her Boston University
museum.
Suddenly she’s juggling murder, artifact theft, and a complicated move into a new building...
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The House Of The Sphinx by Sarah Wisseman
Lisa and James take an overdue honeymoon to Egypt. While
visiting
fabulous monuments and archaeological sites, they stumble upon a plot to infect western tourists with smallpox...
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Midnight Fires by Nancy Means Wright
Mitchelstown Castle in 1786 Ireland hums with intrigue. The new
young governess, Mary Wollstonecraft (future author of A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman), witnesses the stabbing of
the Anglo-Irish lord's illegitimate son. Irish rebel Liam
Donovan becomes the prime suspect, but Mary, champion of the
oppressed, and susceptible to Liam's charm, tries to prove him
innocent...
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