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The Fairbairn Fortunes
Una-Mary Parker
For lovers of Downton Abbey.
1913: The aristocratic Fairbairns gather for Christmas, but as the New Year approaches the family's happy reunion is about to be shattered by affairs, war and tragedy. Who will get their happy ending?
When the Devil Drives
Caro Peacock
A Liberty Lane mystery.
Autumn, 1839. As the London nights darken, rumours spread about the devil's chariot, which preys on young women walking alone at night. Novice private investigator Liberty Lane has no time for such horror stories, so when a poetic young man begs her to find his missing fiancé, she accepts, suspecting there is a more prosaic explanation. Meanwhile, she is engaged to help prevent a royal scandal involving Prince Albert's worldlier brother, Prince Ernest. Liberty begins work on both cases, but when young women begin showing up dead, the tales of the devil's chariot don't seem so ridiculous any more . . .
Keeping Bad Company
Caro Peacock
Private investigator Liberty Lane faces the most challenging case of her career in this absorbing mystery.
London, 1840. Private investigator Liberty faces a conundrum when her younger brother Tom, an East India Company employee, is unexpectedly summoned to London to give evidence at an official enquiry into the murder of a wealthy merchant's assistant, found with his throat cut en route to Bombay. A connection between the dead man and escalating rows with China over the lucrative opium trade has caused the government concern. Can Liberty solve a murder that took place six months previously almost five thousand miles away?
The Path of the Wicked
Caro Peacock
Private investigator Liberty Lane's latest case takes her to rural Gloucestershire to uncover the truth of a brutal murder.
July, 1840. Did young Jack Picton, a known rebel and political agitator, kill governess Mary Marsh? Liberty Lane has left London for Cheltenham to find out, sharing the magistrate's doubts. He is, however, hiding something . . . but what? As Liberty is about to discover, behind Cheltenham's genteel façade lies a hotbed of vice. It is a place where the poor are driven to desperate lengths to escape the horror of the workhouse. A place which is harbouring a ruthless killer. Can Liberty uncover the truth in time?
Friends in High Places
Caro Peacock
Featuring private investigator Liberty Lane
September, 1840. A body is discovered hanging in the attic at Gore House, Kensington home of Lady Blessington. Uncovering evidence that the murder was meticulously prepared for and planned well in advance, Liberty Lane finds herself plunged into a highly dangerous game involving blackmail, treachery, espionage - and cold-blooded murder.
The Killing Site
Caro Peacock
1847. When Liberty Lane is kidnapped from outside a smart London townhouse, where she had been attending a dinner party with her husband Robert, she must call on all her investigative skills to discover who has taken her, and why. While Libby tries to formulate a plan of escape, her old friend Tabby makes a truly shocking discovery.
The Bride Box
Michael Pearce
The gift of a traditional Bride Box leads Mamur Zapt into a complex and intriguing investigation
Cairo, 1912. The Pasha receives an unexpected gift: a traditional Bride Box. When opened, however, the box contains an unwelcome jolt from the past . . . At the same time, a little girl is discovered riding under a train from Luxor - and the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Khedive's Secret Police, is called in to investigate. He soon finds himself confronting a political storm as the end of British rule approaches and his investigations uncover a tangled web of family loyalties and betrayals, with its roots in a slave trade long supposed to have been stamped out in Egypt.
The Mouth of the Crocodile
Michael Pearce
"A lovingly detailed portrait of Egypt during the Great War. The result is a bit like a police procedural reimagined by Douglas Adams" Kirkus Reviews on The Bride Box
Atbara, Sudan, 1913. A dead man is fished out of the River Nile. An accident - or something more sinister? A visiting Pasha from the Royal Household believes it was murder - and that he himself was the intended target. The Mamur Zapt, Head of the Khedive's Secret Police, determines to uncover the truth.
The Women of the Souk
Michael Pearce
The kidnapping of an innocent schoolgirl throws a glaring light on the tensions and injustices of pre-War Egyptian society in this absorbing historical mystery.
Cairo, 1913. When schoolgirl Marie Kewfik is kidnapped, snatched away as she strolled through the bustling bazaars of the Souk, the Khedive insists that the Mamur Zapt takes charge of the negotiations for her safe return. But, as the Mamur is to discover, there is more to this kidnapping than meets the eye.
Marbeck and the Double-Dealer
John Pilkington
From the author of the successful Thomas the Falconer mysteries comes a new historical series featuring Elizabethan intelligencer Martin Marbeck...
1600: a new century dawns. War with Spain has dragged on for fifteen years, the conflict in Ireland for six. Unease stalks England in the dying years of Elizabeth I's reign, and Elizabethan intelligencer Martin Marbeck is bored. Then a message from his spymaster, Sir Robert Cecil arrives: the existence of a spy has been discovered, code-named Morera, and Marbeck must uncover the true identity of this traitor quickly, before rumours of the young King Philip III forming a new Armada prove themselves to be true.
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