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Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Fiction Homicide Fiction London (England) History 19th century Fiction Meurtre Enquêtes Romans, nouvelles, etc Murder Fiction Murder Investigation Murder Investigation Fiction Private investigators Fiction Secrecy FictionCotter, Erin
Summary: In London, 1593, sixteen-year-old Will Hughes makes his living on Shakespeare's stage, but after the famous playwright Christopher Marlowe is murdered, he teams up with young Lord James Bloomsbury, and together the two hunt the elusive assassin as their forbidden feelings for each other ignite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COTConnally, Celeste
Summary: "London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiancé in an accident three years earlier, she announces in front of London's loosest lips that she will never marry. A woman of independent means--and rather independent ways--Petra sees no reason to cede her wealth and freedom to any man now that the love of her life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CONFreeman, Dianne
Summary: "With her new husband George busy on a special mission for the British Museum, Frances has taken on an assignment of her own. The dowager Viscountess Wingate needs someone to sponsor her niece, Kate, for presentation to Queen Victoria. Frances--who understands society's quirks and constraints as only an outsider can--is the perfect candidate. Kate is charming and intelligent, though perhaps not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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Summary: "Cyrus Barker, along with his former assistant and now partner Thomas Llewelyn, is the premier enquiry agent in all of 19th century London, and beyond. They've thwarted the designs of villains and crooks off all sorts, helped Scotland Yard crack their most challenging cases, and worked for the Her Majesty's Government at the very highest levels. But nothing has been quite as challenging and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THORedmond, Heather
Summary: When his initiation into the Lightning Club takes a murderous turn, Charles Dickens is accused of the crime and is locked away in Newgate Prison where he must rely on his fiancé and her sleuthing skills to save him from the hangman's noose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDArmstrong, Kelley.
Summary: "Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martin's Minotaur 2024
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Summary: "When one of her readers asks for advice following a suspected murder, Victorian countess and agony aunt Amelia has no choice but to investigate in this first book in a thrilling new historical mystery series. Amelia Amesbury-widow, mother, and countess-is bored, crushingly so. In an attempt to fill the days, Amelia becomes an "agony aunt" for a London penny paper, doling out advice on fashion,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WINRedmond, Heather
Summary: "London, 1814: Mary Godwin and her stepsister Jane Clairmont, both sixteen, possess quick minds bolstered by an unconventional upbringing, and have little regard for the rules that other young ladies follow. Mary, whose mother famously advocated for women's rights, rejects the two paths that seem open to her-that of an assistant in her father's bookshop, or an ordinary wife. Though quieter and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDPook, Lizzie
Summary: "In Victorian London, when she discovers her sister's death aboard the Makepeace was no accident and that the ship's scientist Edison Stowe was responsible, Maude Horton, to find the truth, begins shadowing Edison, enacting the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC POOHastings, Anastasia
Summary: "Of Manners and Murder is the first in the delightful new Dear Miss Hermione mystery series from Anastasia Hastings. 1885: London, England. When Violet's Aunt Adelia decides to abscond with her newest paramour, she leaves behind her role as the most popular Agony Aunt in London, "Miss Hermione," in Violet's hands. And of course, the first letter Violet receives is full, not of prissy pondering,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HASThomas, Will
Summary: "London, 1893, there is poisoner loose in the city, with deaths piling up, and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are apparently his next target in Fierce Poison by Will Thomas. Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker has just about seen it all-he's been attacked by assassins, his office has been bombed, and evil-doers have even nearly killed his dog. But never before has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOHarris, C. S.
Summary: "The dead man smelled like fish. Rotting fish. Pale, bloodless, and faceless, he lay on the stained granite slab in the center of Paul Gibson's ancient stone outbuilding, filling the small room with a foul stench. But then, bodies pulled from the Thames did have a nasty tendency to reek of fish. Fish, brine, tar, and--if it was warm and they'd been in the water long enough--decay. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarris, C. S.
Summary: "On a sunny day in July 1815, thirty-eight-year-old Philippa, Lady McKinsey, takes her sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma, and her young niece and nephew, fifteen-year-old Arabella and thirteen-year-old Percy, on an outing to Richmond Park. But when Arabella and Percy go off to pick flowers, tragedy strikes. Shots echo across the park. Two young gentlemen investigate and find Lady McKinsey and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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Summary: "Captain Jim Agnihotri and his new bride, Diana Framji, return in Nev March's Peril at the Exposition, the follow up to March's award-winning, Edgar finalist debut, Murder in Old Bombay. 1893: Newlyweds Captain Jim Agnihotri and Diana Framji are settling into their new home in Boston, Massachusetts, having fled the strict social rules of British-ruled Bombay. It's a different life than what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARLarsen, Samantha
Summary: "1784 England. Officially hired as the librarian for the Duchess of Beaufort, Miss Tiffany Woodall is through with masquerades and murders for good. That is, until she stumbles upon the frozen dead body of former footman Mr. Bernard Coram. The speed with which her peaceful new life is upended is one for the record books: the justice of the peace immediately declares her the primary suspect in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2024
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Summary: "From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SMIParris, S. J.
Summary: Paris, 1585. Giordano Bruno, heretic, philosopher and spy for Elizabeth's minister Sir Francis Walsingham, has come to Paris. King Henri III is surrounded by enemies: the Duke of Guise's Catholic League; Henri of Navarre's Protestant army; and from withinhis own court, where his mother Catherine of Medici wields immense influence. Bruno, alone and near destitute, turns to old friend Paul...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARFreeman, Dianne
Summary: Frances Wynn is shocked when Inspector Delaney turns up at her house with a woman claiming to be the wife of her fiancé.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREBelli, 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 BELHead, Cheryl A.
Summary: "A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist's search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago-inspired by the author's own family history Birmingham, 1929: Robert Lee Harrington, a master carpenter, has just moved to Alabama to pursue a job opportunity, bringing along his pregnant wife and young daughter....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEAGriffiths, Elly
Summary: "Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her partner Sam Collins are just settling into their business when they're chosen for a high-profile case: retired music-hall star Verity Malone hires them to find out who poisoned her husband, a theater impresario. Verity herself has been accused of the crime. The only hitch--the Brighton police are already on the case, putting Emma in direct competition with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIRiley, Vanessa
Summary: When she stumbles upon the body of her neighbor Stapleton Hendersons wife, Lady Abigail Worthing, expecting to be under suspicion due to her skin color and her mother's notorious past, teams up with Henderson and together they dive into the treacherous waters of London's high society to find the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILJanuary, Ava
Summary: "London, 1894. Albertine Honeycombe never wanted a husband and certainly not the one with fifteen children that her cousin, Aubrey, is trying to marry her off to. She reinvents herself as Countess Von Dagga, a private detective aiding the upper echelons of women in society. As the Countess, she is a married woman, with a conveniently absent husband who doesn't exist, which allows her far more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JANRaybourn, Deanna
Summary: "Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024