Kitty Kelly
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
For Alice and her partner Joe, moving to the sleepy village of Penton is a chance to embrace country life and prepare for the birth of their first child. He can take up woodwork; maybe she'll learn to make jam? But the rural idyll they'd hoped for doesn't quite pan out when a dead body is discovered at their local prenatal class, and they find themselves suspects in a murder investigation" --
Author
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Being a new mom is murder. Alice didn't think her maternity leave would involve so much, well, murder. Before becoming proud new moms, she and her friends bonded more than members of a prenatal group usually would, as they became accidental amateur sleuths and solved a crime together. Now, with all this behind them and Alice's son Jack somehow already a year old, Alice is keen to finally catch up on some sleep. So when an opportunity presents itself...
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English
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Rosalind Thorne, known among society ladies as a "most useful woman" for her discretion and connections that allow her to discover almost anything about anyone, investigates the disappearance of a valuable pearl necklace belonging to Bethany Douglas and discovers secrets swirling around the Douglas family, including fraud, forgery, blackmail, and soon, murder.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Two womenTwo warsA secret that threatens to tear them apart 1916 At the onset of war, Nurse Pru le Cuirot left her home in Jersey to care for injured soldiers at Ashbury Manor, Dorset. She wanted to do her bit but she never expected to meet American pilot, Jack Garland, so unlike any man she has ever met. When Jack is sent on a dangerous mission and vanishes, Pru is forced to make an agonising decision… one that will haunt them both forever. 1940...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Home, sweet home... Joy Cartier has been to some of the most beautiful places in the world – but none of them have ever felt like home. So moving into a tiny cottage in the idyllic village of Bramble Hill, walking distance from her childhood home, seems like the perfect plan. That is, until she gets there. The surly inhabitants of Britain's Friendliest Village are anything but welcoming. Even her neighbour, reclusive Hollywood star Finn Mackenzie,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Seventeen-year-old Iris is happy. She's fearless, she's strong. She is everything but a girl who lost her mum. But Iris's dad and step-mum have been keeping a secret. One big enough to unravel her. Only the magnetic aOrla can provide an escape, until things get...complicated. As Iris questions who she is, it becomes clear she can't run away from grief. What happens when someone who has never faced up to the darkness lets it in?"--
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English
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"When the daughter of a well-respected family is being poisoned, Rosalind Thorn and Bow Street officer Adam Harkness work together to solve this dangerous case that is rife with politics, jealousy, jewel thieves--and a romance between them that would be frowned upon by society"--
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s.
The twenty-first century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks to create over $25 trillion of new money, brought about a new age of geopolitical competition, destabilized the Middle East, ruptured the European Union, and exposed old political...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Toby enters a contest that will determine the world's greatest detective and teams up with amateur sleuth Ivy to solve the mystery, but the pretend murder turns into a real one, and all of the participants become suspects.
11) Skip to the end
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Amy Daniels has a pretty nice life. Her career is on the up, she loves her friends, and she's about to buy her very own flat. On a good day, Amy could be described as a catch-so why is she perpetually single? The trouble is, Amy can see something no one else can: the end. As soon as she kisses someone, she knows, in intimate, vivid detail, how their relationship will finish. A screaming argument in the middle of the supermarket over milk. An explicit...
12) Black wine
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A feminist tale in a fantasy land of slaves and airships. It features Essa, a girl betrothed at birth to the regent. But life in a palace with its stifling rituals is not for her, and she flees into the mountains to become a trader and be independent.