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Summary: "1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M KELWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: September 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address, he's shocked to come face to face with the killer. Dismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WINArlen, Tessa
Summary: It is the late autumn of 1942. Our indomitable heroine Poppy Redfern is thoroughly immersed in her new job as a scriptwriter at the London Crown Film Unit, which produces short films featuring British civilians who perform acts of valour and heroism in wartime. After weeks of typing copy and sharpening pencils, Poppy is thrilled to receive her first solo script project - a 15-minute film about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ARLRader-Day, Lori
Summary: "Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway House--the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie--in disgrace. A terrible mistake at St. Prisca's Hospital in London has led to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, and her only chance for redemption is a position in the countryside caring for children evacuated to safety from the Blitz. Greenway is a beautiful home full of riddles: wondrous curios not to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "London. December, 1942. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope, secret agent and spy, takes a break from the Special Operations Executive division to defuse bombs in London. But Maggie herself is like an explosion waiting to happen. Shaken by a recent case, she finds herself living more dangerously--taking more risks than usual, smoking again, drinking gin and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2020
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Summary: "1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KELWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: Entreated by a witness nobody believes to investigate a murder, Maisie Dobbs uncovers a conspiracy with devastating implications for Britain's war effort during the Nazi occupation of Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WINArnaldur Indridason
Summary: "A man is found murdered in a small apartment in Reykjavík, shot in the head with a pistol. The police's attention is immediately drawn to the foreign soldiers who are on every street corner in the summer of 1941. So begins officers Flóvent and Thorson's investigation, which will lead them down a path darker than either of them expected, and force them to reckon with their own demons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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Summary: "In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publisher 2022
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Summary: "December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hard Case Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KESFesperman, Dan
Summary: "A new novel from Dan Fesperman is always a twisty, well-plotted, intelligent delight. And Safe Houses is no exception. The germ of the story begins in West Berlin in 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. But during her routine inspection of an agency...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FESBrydon, James
Summary: "December 1959: A furious anticolonial war rages in Algeria. Captain Jacques le Garrec, a former detective and French Resistance hero, returns to France in disgrace. Traumatized after two years of working in the army intelligence services, he's now accused of a brutal crime. As le Garrec awaits trial in the tiny Breton town where he grew up, he is asked to look into a disturbing and unsolved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRYPryor, Mark
Summary: "Mark Pryor's Die Around Sundown is the first entry in an exciting mystery series set in Paris during World War II, where a detective is forced to solve a murder while protecting his own secrets. Summer 1940: In German-occupied Paris, Inspector Henri Lefort has been given just five days to solve the murder of a German major that took place in the Louvre Musuem. Blocked from the crime scene but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PRYGraves, Stephanie
Summary: Weaving wartime intrigue, rural village life, and little-known historical facts about the role of carrier pigeons in WWII, Stephanie Graves continues the adventures of British pigeoneer Olive Bright, but as bitter cold weather forces her racing birds indoors in November 1941, Olive is assigned to a new role in the war effort - escorting none other than Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming on his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2023
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Summary: "A series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction WinspearGraves, Stephanie
Summary: "Though war rages across mainland Europe and London is strafed by German aircraft, the little village of Pipley in Hertfordshire bustles along much as it always has. Adrift since her best friend, George, joined the Royal Air Force, twenty-two-year-old Olive Bright fills her days by helping at her father's veterinary practice and tending to her beloved racing pigeons. Desperate to do her bit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Graves 2022Graves, Stephanie
Summary: Tending her veterinarian father's Hertfordshire racing pigeons while waiting for her best friend to return from World War II, Olive is recruited into the Baker Street covert branch of British Intelligence before investigating the murder of a local busybody.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAHuang, Christopher
Summary: "The year is 1924. The cobblestoned streets of St. James ring with jazz as Britain races forward into an age of peace and prosperity. London's back alleys, however, are filled with broken soldiers and still enshadowed by the lingering horrors of the Great War. Only a few years removed from the trenches of Flanders himself, Lieutenant Eric Peterkin has just been granted membership in the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Huang 2018Graves, Stephanie
Summary: "While selecting her trained carrier pigeons for missions to aid the Belgian resistance, Olive Bright must also investigate the suspicious death of an instructor at a top-secret training school"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRATodd, Charles
Summary: The Armistice of November 1918 ended the fighting, but the Great War will not be over until a Peace Treaty is drawn up and signed by all parties. Representatives from the Allies are gathering in Paris, and already ominous signs of disagreement have appeared. Sister Bess Crawford, who has been working with the severely wounded in England in the war's wake, is asked to carry out a personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TODBenn, James R.
Summary: "A double murder in a French chateau just after D-Day threatens Allied operations, and US Army detective Billy Boyle is called to investigate. July, 1944, a full month after D-Day. Billy, Kaz, and Big Mike are assigned to investigate a double murder, close to the front lines in Normandy.An American officer and a member of the French Resistance were found dead in a manor house outside the town...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Benn 2018MacNeal, Susan Elia
Summary: London, December 1942. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope finds herself living dangerously as a spy. When she's called upon to look into the theft of a Stradivarius, one of the finest violins ever made, Maggie can't resist. Meanwhile, there's a serial killer on the loose in London, targeting conscientious objectors. Little does she know that investigating this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACSteinberg, Shaina
Summary: Five years after working for the Office of Strategic Services with Nick, whom she gets close to until the World War II' end brings with it an act of deep betrayal, former spy Evelyn, now working as a PI, finds herself back in Nick's orbit when her latest case brings the war to her doorstep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: "As the shadow of World War II descends over Europe, Detective Inspector Thomas Lamb hunts for an elusive killer behind the veil of a seemingly charming English village"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019