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The first in a gripping new Victorian mystery series set in London from critically acclaimed author Jeri Westerson.
Watch out, Sherlock! Introducing one-time Baker Street Irregular Timothy Badger and his partner-in-crime Benjamin Watson, two exciting and unconventional young consulting detectives, mentored by the great man himself, tackling intriguing and unusual cases in Victorian London with endearing verve and wit.
Sherlock Holmes's protégés...
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Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham have to hunt down an escapee from a French asylum, in this new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery from critically-acclaimed author Alys Clare.
London, April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bureau to offer a curious case concerning her fiance, proprietor Lily Raynor is intrigued - and privately excited. For accepting the case means taking an unexpected...
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Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham tackle a puzzling miscarriage of justice and the curious case of a missing child, in the new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery.
London, August 1881. After a difficult few months, the World's End Investigation Bureau is thriving. Affairs, sex scandals, divorces . . . Lily Raynor is delighted to have so much work for herself and her capable assistant, Felix Wilbraham, but she can't...
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Alex Quick novels volume 1
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"When Alexandra Quicks business partner, Dr. Helena Drummond, disappears, Alex investigates, and learns things she never knew about her friend and colleague that make her question if Helena is a victim or a criminal."--Publisher.
7) Hop Scot
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It's all aboard for a Campbell Clan Christmas! Lexy swaps cinnamon lattes for boiled sprouts when the Last Ditch crew travel from California to an idyllic Scottish village for the holidays, but something very unmerry is lurking below the surface . . .
Lexy Campbell is long overdue a trip to Scotland to see her parents, and an unexpected death in the extended Last Ditch Motel family makes Christmas in a bungalow in Dundee with nine others seem almost...
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 14
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When Jubal Cain, the coordinator of the Underground Railroad system in Mississippi, is accused of murdering a chief member of the Railroad, Benjamin January steps in to unearth the true killer before their covers are blown.
10) Dead weight
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Baffled by the suspicious deaths of a member of her weight-loss support group and the realtor selling her house, amateur sleuth E.J. Pugh struggles to find a link between the two killings, a situation that is complicated by E.J.'s growing estrangement from her husband.
11) Ran away
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 11
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When a Turkish man is accused of murdering his two concubines in nineteenth-century New Orleans, Benjamin January must investigate in order to vindicate the outsider.
12) Cold Fire
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A mother and her children murdered.
A nanny on the run.
A killer in pursuit.
Hunted and reviled, ex-nanny Joanne Mason turns to her sister, Detective Karen Ratcliffe. Torn between duty and family, Ratcliffe asks Tess Grey and her partner Nicolas 'Po' Villere to bring Joanne in safely.
A winter cyclone forces Joanne into hiding on the Canadian border - but she can't stay put for long. In close pursuit, Tess and Po head north into the heart of a...
13) Ukulele of Death
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Meet Fran and Ken Stein - a private investigator duo who refuse to let a little thing like being not entirely human stop them from doing their jobs.
"Twisty and bonkers and fun" Multi award-winning author Catriona McPherson
After losing their parents when they were just babies, private investigators Fran and Ken Stein now specialize in helping adoptees find their birth parents. So when a client asks them for help finding her father, with her only...
14) Buried Memories
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Ishmael Jones novels volume 10
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Returning to the small town where he crash-landed in 1963, Ishmael Jones is in search of answers. But his investigation is de-railed by a brutal murder.
"I think something very bad and very dangerous has come to your little town, Inspector . . ."
As long-buried memories from his hidden past begin to resurface, Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny feel compelled to return to the small country town where Ishmael crash-landed in 1963; the place...
15) Heads or hearts
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Severn House
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When a disembodied heart and a headless body are found in the Independent Edinburgh of 2033, Quint Dalrymple is called in to investigate and finds a link to the upcoming referendum on Edinburgh joining a reconstituted Scotland.
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The Edgar Award-nominated author of 17 previous mystery novels, Susan Rogers Cooper spins perplexing whodunits that delight her many fans. In Romanced to Death, E.J. Pugh is six years removed from her last crime scene, but little does she know death awaits her at a romance writers convention.
17) Crimson angel
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 13
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When his brother-in-law is murdered while searching for a family treasure, Benjamin January is forced to travel to rebellion-torn Haiti of 1838.
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