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Summary: Called out to attend a body found on a lonely stretch of river bank, its throat torn out, apprentice healer Lassair is sceptical of the sheriff's verdict that this was the result of a wild animal attack. But when a second body is discovered, similarly mutilated, rumours engulf the town that the legendary demon known as the Night Wanderer has returned to wreak havoc. Determined to stop the fear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLATremayne, Peter.
Summary: In 7th century Ireland, Sister Fidelma investigates the death of a Celtic chieftain. A blind deaf-mute monk has been charged with murder, but the sister thinks he is innocent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREPenman, Sharon Kay.
Summary: In 12th century England, Justin de Quincy, special agent for Eleanor of Aquitaine, investigates the murder of a peddler's daughter. Two men are suspected, but they are rich and the rich are difficult to bring to justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENPenman, Sharon Kay.
Summary: Justin de Quincy is drawn into a conspiracy when he investigates a forged document that implicates Prince John in a plot to kill his brother King Richard, a scheme that also endangers the woman Justin serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENMarston, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARPeters, Ellis
Summary: In 12th Century Britain, Brother Cadfael searches for his son, Olivier de Bretagne, taken prisoner in a war between the grandchildren of William the Conqueror. In the process he discovers intrigue and murder. By the author of The Holy Thief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETPeters, Ellis
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PETFrazer, Margaret.
Summary: As the nuns of St. Frideswide's priory prepare for the welcome end of Lent, their peaceful expectations are overset by the sudden return of long-vanished Sister Cecely. Nine years ago she fled from the nunnery with a man. Now her lover is dead and she has come back, bringing her illegitimate son with her. She claims she is penitent, that she wants only to redeem her sin and find safe haven for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAFrazer, Margaret.
Summary: In fifteenth-century England, Dame Frevisse reluctantly leaves the sanctuary of her nunnery for the intrigues, high politics, and treachery of the royal court as she becomes embroiled in a plot that could threaten the throne of England itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAFrazer, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAEmerson, Kathy Lynn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perserverance Press/John Daniel & Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EMESeales, Julia
Summary: "Beatrice Steele lives a perfectly agreeable life with her mother, father, and two younger sisters--Louisa and Mary. But she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about. If anyone found out, she would be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. Eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching ball, and the Steele family hopes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWBuckley, Fiona
Summary: March, 1588. With England in a state of high alert as King Philip of Spain amasses a vast fleet of warships ready to invade, Queen Elizabeth and her advisors seek a possible alliance with the Duke of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands. But their plans suffer a major setback when one of their most reliable spies is found murdered in the Hertfordshire countryside, shot dead by a crossbow bolt as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCEllicott, Jessica
Summary: Beryl Helliwell and Edwina Davenport, who share a household in the hamlet of Walmsley Parva, have set up their own informal private investigation business. Their first client, Vicar Wilfred Lowethorpe, requires sensitivity and discretion. Lionel Cunningham, a parishioner and treasurer of the local pigeon racing club, has gone missing with all the club's funds and some prize birds belonging to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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Summary: From the author of A Dangerous Duet comes the next book in her Victorian mystery series, this time following a daring female painter and the Scotland Yard detective who is investigating her brother's suspicious death. A young painter digs beneath the veneer of Victorian London's art world to learn the truth behind her brother's murder... Edwin is dead. That's what Inspector Matthew Hallam of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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Summary: "Veronica Speedwell returns in a brand new adventure from Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries. London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women. There she meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2017
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Summary: "Bath, England, 1891. Mystery author Lady Amy Lovell is set to tie the knot with Lord William Wethington, but on the eve of the ceremony, the festive air in the drawing room is marred by Mrs. Alice Finch's argument with her husband, Albert. The next morning, Alice falls face-first into her breakfast--dead. The detectives charge Albert with the murder, but there are too many things that don't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUTChesney, Marion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHEChesney, Marion.
Summary: Wayward Edwardian debutante Lady Rose Summer becomes the prime suspect in the killing of Dolores Duval, the seductive new client of her fiance, Captain Harry Cathcart, after a fit of jealousy leads her to threaten the woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEDoherty, P. C.
Summary: Telamon, the great physician-detective of antiquity, investigates Persian spies as his master, Alexander the Great, heads to the city of Halicarnassus on his legendary march west.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOHChisholm, P. F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIGregory, Susanna
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREChesney, Marion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004