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(Fictitious character) Malone, Cotton Fiction Bavaria (Germany) Fiction Bavaria (Germany) Social life and customs 18th century Fiction Bliss, Vicky (Fictitious character) Fiction Hansel and Gretel (Tale) Fiction Nobility Fiction Nuremberg (Germany) Social life and customs 18th century Fiction Private investigators Fiction Theft Fiction Women art historians FictionShattuck, Jessica
Summary: Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Shattuck 2017Brackston, Paula
Summary: "Bavaria, 1776. When Albrecht Durer the Much Much Younger's Frog Prints go missing, he knows exactly where to turn for help. Gretel (yes, that Gretel), now thirty-five and still living with her gluttonous brother Hans, is the country's most famous private investigator, and she leaps at the opportunity to travel to cosmopolitan Nuremberg to take on the case. But amid the hubbub of the city's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brackston 2015Berry, Steve
Summary: "King Ludwig II of Bavaria was an enigmatic figure who was deposed in 1886, mysteriously drowning three days later. Eccentric to the point of madness, history tells us that in the years before he died Ludwig engaged in a worldwide search for a new kingdom, one separate, apart, and in lieu of Bavaria. A place he could retreat into and rule as he wished. But a question remains: did he succeed?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BERPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: "A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETBrackston, Paula
Summary: Gretel (yes, that Gretel) is now 35, very large, still living with her brother Hans, and working as a private investigator. The small, sleepy town of Gesternstadt is shaken to its pretty foundations when the workshop of the local cart maker is burnt to the ground, and a body is discovered in the ashes. It is Gretel who notices that the cadaver is missing a finger. At first she does not see this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2015