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Series
Ruth Galloway mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an old university friend and fellow archaeologist's murdered, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Lancashire to examine the bones he found, which reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur, and discovers a campus living in fear of a sinister right-wing group called the White Hand.
4) Dead end
Author
Series
DCI Monika Paniatowski mystery volume 13
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"He was going to have to terminate Monika, he decided. It was a pity, but there it was... The body has lain buried for years, and has no face and no fingertips. Monika Paniatowski's team have no real leads, but when they discuss the case at her hospital bedside - where she lies paralysed - Monika begins to see possible links with a case she closed four years earlier. Are the two cases connected? Did the first murder make the second almost inevitable?...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1740s England, the roots of evil run deep...
The year is 1740. George II is on the throne, but England's remoter provinces remain largely a law unto themselves. In Lancashire a grim discovery has been made: a squire's wife, Dolores Brockletower, lies in the woods above her home at Garlick Hall, her throat brutally slashed.
Called to the scene, Coroner Titus Cragg finds the Brockletower household awash with rumor and suspicion. He enlists the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sharon Bolton returns with her creepiest standalone yet, following a young cop trying to trace the disappearances of a small town's teenagers. Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago in a small village in Lancashire. Like something out of a nightmare, the victims were buried alive. Florence was able to solve the mystery and get a confession out of Larry before...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
An unexpected inheritance offers Libby Pulford the opportunity to escape her abusive marriage and return to her Lancashire roots with her young son Ned. But her domineering husband Steven won't let her go so easily. Just as she's beginning to settle into her new life, Libby's troubled past catches up with her. The one person she can turn to for help is her new neighbour, former police detective Joss Atherton, to whom Libby feels a growing attraction....
Author
Series
Danforths of Lancashire volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Recently-widowed Catherine Danforth returns to her family's estate to find her father has befriended an annoying German theologian, while Edward makes his move into the political arena.
9) Ashton Park
Author
Series
Danforths of Lancashire volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
While William Danforth is in London during Parliamentary sessions, Lady Elizabeth visits a small Baptist church in Liverpool with her head cook, exposing Elizabeth to a less formal approach to Christian worship which she comes to enjoy.
10) Dark waters
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the drowning death of his wife's uncle against a backdrop of a contentious election, eighteenth-century coroner Titus Cragg receives information that suggests foul play, a situation that is complicated by the demise of a politically connected farmer.
11) A place of hope
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"When Emily Mattison falls victim to a near-fatal accident shortly after receiving an unexpected inheritance from a distant cousin, her ruthless nephew George seizes the opportunity to take control of his aunt's assets. It's only when Emily reaches The Drover's Hope, the former pub on the edge of the Lancashire moors, bequeathed to her by her late cousin Penelope, that she begins to feel safe. She also discovers that love can be found in the most...
13) London dawn
Author
Series
Danforths of Lancashire volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this stunning conclusion to the saga, we find Lord Preston and his family are gathered in London in the late 1930s for what turns out to be a homecoming. The family is finally all together again, gathering in a way they haven't been able to do for years. But looming ahead is the summer and fall of 1940 when both the Battle of Britain and the Blitz will occur. Though the family is blissfully unaware of this soon-to-be reality, Lord Preston, privy...
14) A time for hope
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Following a bitter divorce, Gabrielle is anxious for a new start, but when her ex gets tangled up in organized crime and is desperate to pay his gambling debts, she discovers just what her former husband is capable of.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Forge trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Some would call Lydia Ketch's life immoral and shameful. After her mother's death and with the obscene conditions of the workhouse looming before her, Lydia chooses to enter into "the trade" in a brothel to shield herself and her sweet young sister from life's ravages. Her education at the hands of the men who use her gives Lydia some very unusual skills and an income an ordinary woman could never match. When Lydia meets Henry Shadwell, a young surgeon...
16) Rough music
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
It's the sweltering summer of 1744 and when an epidemic disease threatens the town, coroner Titus Cragg retires with his wife and baby son to a remote village in East Lancashire, where he hopes his family will enjoy the healthy and tranquil air. But Cragg finds the rural atmosphere anything but peaceful when he's called upon to investigate the horrific death of a local woman who has fallen victim to a cruel community punishment. Assisted by his friend...
17) The hidden man
Author
Series
Cragg and Fidelis mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Blake continues the series Booklist calls "a solid winner" with a darkly rich mystery centered on an apparent suicide that leads Cragg and Fidelis down a treacherous path.The year is 1742, and the people of Preston are looking forward to their ancient once-every-twenty-years festival of merriment and excess, the Preston Guild. But the prospect darkens as the town plunges into a financial crisis caused by the death of pawnbroker and would-be banker...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After losing her family in the Great War, Nell is grateful to marry Stan Hibbert, believing she can recapture a sense of family with him. But five years on, she is just another back-street housewife, making every penny do the work of tuppence and performing miracles with scrag-end. When she discovers that Stan is leading a double-life, she runs away to make a fresh start. Two years later, in 1924, Nell has carved out a fulfilling new life for herself...
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