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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Edie Burchill receives a letter that has lain for 50 years in a forgotten postal bag, and begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masked an old secret. She sets out to find the answers by tracking the letter back to its source, starting with the return address: Milderhurst Castle, Kent, where her mother had been taken as a child, during the London evacuations of World War II.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series. This heart-stopping novel, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White--veteran of two wars, trained killer, protective of her anonymity--when she is drawn back into the world of menace she has been desperate to leave behind. A reluctant ex-spy...
Author
Series
The Lyndon sisters volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charles Wycombe, Earl of Billington, needs a bride to keep his inheritance and Miss Eleanor Lyndon needs a home to escape her father's fiancee, but their platonic union of mutual convenience is soon threatened by calamity, misunderstanding, and passion.
7) Salt lane
Author
Series
Alexandra Cupidi novels volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
No-one knew their names, the bodies found in the water. There are people here, in plain sight, that no-one ever notices at all. DS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut, after the scandal that sent her packing-- resentful teenager in tow-- from the London Met to the lonely Kent coastline. Even murder looks different in this landscape of fens, ditches and stark beaches, shadowed by the towers of Dungeness...
8) Spider's web
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Osborne completes his homage to Christie with this third and final adaptation of an original Christie play, following Black Coffee (1998) and The Unexpected Guest (1999). Though the play was written in 1954, the story suffers little from the passage of time, and aside from the static setting, reads well as a novel. Christie's exquisite timing and clever sleight-of-mind tricks are a delight, while Osborne has the good sense not to embroider the tale....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson, a registered trademark of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Kent, England, 1819. A young widow and patient at Cluett's Mesmeric Hospital, Amelia Pembroke is stunned to learn that her doctor-- the only father figure she's ever known-- left her his primary beneficiary, the heiress to Moorington Cross. There is a condition to the will: she must wed one of two named men, both wholly unknown to her. Amelia has only thirty days to decide which man she will marry-- though her heart belongs to solicitor Ewan Hawkins....
Author
Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When Lord Westerfield's Men are stricken by an unexpected disaster during a packed performance on the Kent countryside, Nicholas Bracewell investigates a clown's prediction about the end of the troupe.
12) Plague land
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Dispatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen when his father and two older brothers are killed by the plague, Oswald has no experience of running an estate. He finds the years of pestilence and neglect have changed the old place dramatically, not to mention the attitude of the surviving peasants. Yet some things never change. Oswald's mother remains the powerful...
13) The Butcher Bird
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Oswald de Lacey is growing up fast in his new position as Lord of Somershill Manor. The Black Death changed many things, and just as it took away his father and elder brothers, leaving Oswald to be recalled from the monastery where he expected to spend his life, so it has taken many of his villagers and servants. However, there is still the same amount of work to be done in the farms and fields, and the few people left to do it think they should be...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maisie is asked to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a village in Kent during the hop picking season. Mysterious fires erupt in the village and a series of petty crime suggest a darker criminal element at work. A peculiar secrecy shrouds the village, and Maisie needs to use her skills to solve one of her most intriguing cases yet.
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