The Return of Captain John Emmett
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| Author | Rennie Airth |
| ISBN | 0143035703 |
In a quiet and picturesque English countryside where people are still recuperating from the ravages of World War I, the peace of a small Surrey village is shattered by the discovery of a horrifying murder. Five victims; four of them killed with military efficiency and, judging from the wounds, a military...
| Author | Anne Perry |
| ISBN | 0345456556 |
In the firmament of great historical novelists, Anne Perry is a star of the greatest magnitude. First there were her acclaimed Victorian mysteries, sparkling with passion and suspense. Now readers have embraced this bestselling new series of World War I novels–which juxtapose the tranquil life...
| Author | Judith Rock |
| ISBN | 0425236641 |
Paris, 1686: When The Bishop of Marseilles discovers that his young cousin Charles du Luc, former soldier and half-fledged Jesuit, has been helping heretics escape the king's dragoons, the bishop sends him far away-to Paris, where Charles is assigned to assist in teaching rhetoric and directing...
| Author | Hazel B. West |
| ISBN | 1482701464 |
Anthony Maxwell is a private investigator, a consultant for the mostly incompetent inspectors at Scotland Yard, on occasion a writer, and always a lover of coffee. He has been working small cases for several years to pay the bills when he’s introduced to the first multiple murder case of his career...
The debut of aristocrat-investigator Lord Francis Powerscourt, who takes on investigations too delicate for the police. Prince Eddy is a notorious wastrel. But when he is found in his bedroom at Sandringham with his throat cut, his father, King George V, decides that the crime must be concealed. The...
| Author | Felicity Young |
| ISBN | 0732293685 |
A compelling new series about Dr Dody McCleland, the first female autopsy surgeon. Murder treats everyone equally...
A woman. A doctor. A beastly science. At the turn of the twentieth century, London's political climate is in turmoil, as women fight for the right to vote. Dody McCleland has...
| Author | David Hosp |
| ISBN | 0230753345 |
I have always enjoyed Hosp's books, especially those related to the law. This one, while a good read and filled with some last minute switcheroo, failed to hit the mark on the legal thriller checklist. i suppose sprinkling in a few 'court' and 'lawyer' references will suffice for some, but I expected...
| Author | Nicola Upson |
| ISBN | 0571237703 |
A brilliant and original fiction debut set in the exotic world of 1930s British theatre.
March 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her celebrated play "Richard of Bordeaux," But joy turns to horror when her arrival coincides...
| Author | Marjorie Eccles |
| ISBN | 0749007966 |
The year is 1919 and the population of Great Britain is still struggling to its feet after being hit by the atrocities of the First World War. Progress is slow, even in quiet spots like the village of Broughton Underhill, on the edge of the Black Country. Gradually, soldiers return, wounds begin to heal...
| Author | Dolores Gordon-Smith |
| ISBN | 0786719907 |
It's 1922 and Jack Haldean, young crime writer and former Royal Flying Corps pilot, is enjoying the local fete on a beautiful summer's day in rural Sussex. But then Jack's fellow officer, Jeremy Boscombe, is found dead in the fortune teller's tent and later the same day Boscombe's shady friend, Reggie...
| Author | Charles Todd |
| ISBN | 0553586610 |
Called out by Scotland Yard into the teeth of a violent blizzard in the Lake District of England, Inspector Ian Rutledge finds himself confronted with one of the most savage murders he has ever encountered. Rutledge might have expected such unspeakable carnage on the World War I battlefields, but not...
When Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, discovers his former housemaid murdered in a particularly sickening manner, his professional and personal lives move perilously close. Circumstances conspire against him, and more murders follow. Soon the city fathers cast doubt on his capability,...
American Lieutenant Billy Boyle is assigned to London by his uncle, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, to investigate the murder of a Russian security officer in the buildup to D-Day. Billy recognizes that this is a politically charged case, pitting Allies against one another, and that he must proceed...
| Author | Maria McCann |
| ISBN | 0571251781 |
Jonathan Dymond, a 26-year old cider-maker in post-Civil War England, has enjoyed a quiet, harmonious existence until a letter arrives from his uncle with a request to speak with his father. When his father returns from the visit the next day, all he can say is that Jonathan's uncle has died. Then Jonathan...
| Author | Pierre Magnan |
| ISBN | 1860467407 |
As the Dos Equis Guy might say, “I don’t often read mysteries, but when I do, I prefer Pierre Magnan.” This is almost entirely thanks to the locale in which Magnan’s novels are set, early-to-mid-20th-century Provence, which he renders as a 50-50 combination of a picturesque rural storybook...
| Author | Katharine McMahon |
| ISBN | 0399156224 |
In the spirit of Sarah Waters and Geraldine Brooks, a dramatic mystery about love, secrets, and discovery in post-World War I London.
Still haunted by the death of her only brother, James, in the Great War, Evelyn Gifford is completely unprepared when a young nurse and her six-year-old son...
