Summary: Romance and intrigue at a London auction house. Written by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey), this 1990s British drama tells the story of art experts who share a passion for the treasures they put under the hammer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2011

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Summary: London attorney Steven Vey has a brilliant career, a beautiful wife, and money to burn. To top it off, he's about to be named Britain's youngest-ever judge. But one night a celebration with his pretty secretary, Nicky, goes too far. He calls it a drunken indiscretion; she calls it rape. Meanwhile, Birmingham punk Eddy Doyle is fresh out of prison with no prospects. After learning that the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GUI

Summary: A young Canadian man makes the acquaintance of an international spy. When he finds her murdered in his flat, he takes over her mission and is pursued across Scotland by both the police and a dangerous spy ring.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER THI

Mead, Tom

Summary: In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician-turned-part-time sleuth Joseph Spector. For who better to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2022

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Clare, Cassandra

Summary: Engaged to marry James Herondale, Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. But James and Cordelia's marriage is a lie, arranged to save Cordelia's reputation. James is in love with Grace Blackthorn whose brother, Jesse, died years ago in a terrible accident. The sword Cortana burns Cordelia's hand when she touches it, while her father has grown bitter and angry. And a serial...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLA

Hadley, Tessa

Summary: 1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy. When the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers 2022

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Clare, Cassandra

Summary: Cordelia Carstairs, a Shadowhunter trained to battle demons, travels with her brother to London where they reconnect with childhood friends but soon must face devastating demon attacks in the quarantined city.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CLA

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Whelan, Gloria.

Summary: In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2011

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WHE

Levy, Andrea

Summary: "Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be recieved as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmers daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEV

Perry, Anne

Summary: "When junior lawyer Daniel Pitt is summoned to the scene of a murder in the London district known as Mile End, he only knows that the victim is a senior lawyer from the same firm. What was this respected colleague doing in such a rough part of the city? The firm's head, Marcus fford Croft, may know more than he admits, but fford Crofts's memory is not what it used to be. Daniel finds his path...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PER

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PER

McCartney, Jenny

Summary: A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to terms with his father's sudden death, and the attack on his harmless best friend Titch, Jacky is forced to face the bullies who still menace a city scarred by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 4th Estate 2019

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Dunn, Carola

Summary: "A casual outing to the Crystal Palace in London takes a mysterious and murderous turn in the latest mystery in Carola Dunn's beloved Daisy Dalrymple series. April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visited in London by her young cousins. On the list of must-see sites is the Crystal Palace. Discovering that her children's nanny, Nanny Gilpin, has never seen the Palace, Daisy decides to make a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dunn 2018

Winspear, Jacqueline

Summary: Maisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a twisting investigation into the brutal killing of a street peddler that will take her from the working-class neighborhoods of her childhood into London's highest circles of power. Set in London between the two world wars.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012

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Fay, Shannon

Summary: "London, 1958. By crafting magical outfits for his friend, Princess Katherine, cloth mage Paul Gallagher is getting ahead. It's not a seamless path. Not since the Virtuis Party came to power. The far-right faction is using criminals to create a protective barrier around England. The enchanted uniforms the prisoners wear may beget a demand for mages, but using luckless convicts as tools for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2022

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Blake, Sarah

Summary: The stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress and an American radio reporter stationed in London collide on the eve of the United States's entrance into World War II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken promise to deliver a letter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011

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Perry, Anne

Summary: "Daniel Pitt's investigation into his colleague's murder leads him through London's teeming underbelly to one of the Royal Navy's most powerful shipbuilders in a thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2021

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Fein, Louise

Summary: "Eleanor and Edward have wealth, status, and a happy marriage. But the 1929 financial crash is looming, and they're harboring a terrible, shameful secret. How far are they willing to go to protect their charmed life-even if it means abandoning their child to a horrific fate?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Ficiton Fein 2021

Montclair, Allison

Summary: In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikely partners have undertaken an even more unlikely, if necessary, business venture - The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. The two partners are Miss Iris Sparks, a woman with a dangerous - and never discussed - past in British intelligence and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, a war widow with a young son entangled in a complicated aristocratic family....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MON

Bledsoe, Erin

Summary: In 1920s London, pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambles to survive in her gritty neighborhood. With her father in prison and her brother in debt to a crime syndicate, she struggles to protect her father's territory. Recruited by Mary Carr, Alice joins a female gang, the Forty Elephants, and tastes success. But it's not long before she wants more--no matter the cost.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022

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Shaffer, Mary Ann.

Summary: As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SHA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION Shaffer

Ivison, Lucy

Summary: At Serendipity House, a grand mansion in 1920s London, two girls, one living downstairs as a servant and the other living in wealth upstairs, combine their fashion designing and dressmaking talents to secretly make outfits for the debutante ball and helpone attendee who wants to escape high-society life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC IVI

Bowen, Rhys

Summary: "In the new Royal Spyness Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Crowned and Dangerous, Lady Georgiana Rannoch juggles secret missions from the Queen, Darcy, and her mother. But it's all in a day's work when you're thirty-fifth in line to the British Crown. When Darcy runs off on another secret assignment, I am left to figure out how to travel to Italy sans maid and chaperone to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Bowen

Montclair, Allison

Summary: "Business becomes personal for the Right Sort Marriage Bureau when a new client, a brutal murder, two kidnappings, and the recently returned from Africa Lord Bainbridge threatens everything that one of the principals holds dear ..."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MON