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Summary: "March 1817: As winter turns to spring, Jane Austen's health is in slow decline, and threatens to cease progress on her latest manuscript. But when her nephew Edward brings chilling news of a death at his former school, Winchester College, not even her debilitating ailment can keep Jane from seeking out the truth. Arthur Prendergast, a senior pupil at the prestigious all-boys' boarding school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARGraves, 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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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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Summary: "May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript-about a baronet's daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain-cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a trial of the curative waters at Cheltenham Spa,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2022
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Summary: Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple realizes she could lose her Vermont home next and sets out to make money the only way she knows how: by selling her intricately crafted dollhouses. Business is off to a good start--until Maple discovers her first customer dead, his body hanging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TIEBelli, Kate
Summary: In 1889 New York, when the city's top models begin turning up dead, one by one, society girl-turned-investigative journalist Genevieve Stewart, drawn into the investigation by a friend, seeks answers from notorious gangsters and prominent painters to catch a killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELBelli, Kate
Summary: "New York City, summer 1889. Society girl-turned-investigative journalist Genevieve Stewart and wealthy Daniel McCaffrey have arrived at the docks to see their friends, Rupert and Esmie Milton, off on their honeymoon. But the romantic idyll comes to a screeching halt when a crazed man bursts into their stateroom screaming about demons and drops dead before their eyes. The dead man is Marcus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021