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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles by Malvina G. Vogel, Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor generations, readers have enjoyed classic literature. They have delighted in the romance of Jane Austen, thrilled at the adventures of Jules Verne, and pondered the lessons of Aesop. Introduce young readers to these familiar volumes with Great Illustrated Classics. In this series, literary masterworks have been adapted for young scholars...Categorized as:
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![The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle, John Dickson Carr]()
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle, John Dickson Carr
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFrom the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America's greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock Holmes. The plots are all new, with painstaking attention to the mood, tone, and detail of the original stories...Categorized as:
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![A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1) by Ronald Holt, Arthur Conan Doyle]()
A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1) by Ronald Holt, Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsThis is an adaptation, containing 6 stories; for the original story, see A Scandal in BohemiaA Scandal in Bohemia is collection of six short stories featuring the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr Watson...Categorized as:
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![The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Angus Wilson]()
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Angus Wilson
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 35 ratings'Holmes,' I cried. 'Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?'Missing, presumed dead, for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear companion Dr Watson. And not before time! London has never been in more need of his extraordinary services: a murderous individual with an air gun stalks the city...Categorized as:
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![The Mystery of Mr Daventry by Adele Clee]()
The Mystery of Mr Daventry by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow long can one keep up a charade?A gentleman who hides many secrets.Society thinks it has the measure of Lucius Daventry, illegitimate son of the Duke of Melverley, but they know nothing of the dangerous man who lies beneath the constructed façade. As a member of a secret group known as the Order of Themis, he works to right injustices, to make wicked men pay... -
![The Thief of Blackfriars Lane by Michelle Griep]()
The Thief of Blackfriars Lane by Michelle Griep
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere’s Often a Fine Line Between a Criminal and a Saint Constable Jackson Forge intends to make the world safer, or at least the streets of Victorian London. But that’s Kit Turner’s domain, a swindler who runs a crew that acquires money the old-fashioned way—conning the rich to give to the poor...Categorized as:
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![Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King]()
Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King's highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling mystery series. And this time the first couple of detection pair up to unlock the buried memory of a shocking crime with the power to kill again-lost somewhere in Russell's own past... -
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Where the Dead Lie by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLondon, 1813Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is no stranger to the dark side of the city, but he's never seen anything like this: the brutalized body of a 15-year-old boy dumped into a makeshift grave on the grounds of an abandoned factory. One of London's many homeless children, Benji Thatcher was abducted and tortured before his murder—and his younger sister is still missing...Categorized as:
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![A Deadly Affair by Carla Simpson]()
A Deadly Affair by Carla Simpson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLondon 1889 — Murder, mystery, and two people in a most unlikely partnership.She's an unconventional lady who has traveled the world, practices the art of self defense most excellently, and has an interesting tattoo in, ahem... a very unusual place...Categorized as:
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![Justice Hall by Laurie R. King]()
Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOnly hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving one murky riddle on the moor, another knocks on their front door...literally. It's a mystery that begins during the Great War, when Gabriel Hughenfort died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since...Categorized as:
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![The Innkeeper's Daughter by Michelle Griep]()
The Innkeeper's Daughter by Michelle Griep
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA London officer goes undercover to expose a plot against the Crown Dover, England, 1808: Officer Alexander Moore goes undercover as a gambling gentleman to expose a high-stakes plot against the king—and he’s a master of disguise, for Johanna Langley believes him to be quite the rogue. . .until she can no longer fight against his unrelenting charm...Categorized as:
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Cometh the Hour by Jeffrey Archer
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 28 ratings"Cometh the Hour" opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia.Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain...Categorized as:
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![What the Devil Knows by C.S. Harris]()
What the Devil Knows by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSebastian St. Cyr thought a notorious killer had been brought to justice until a shocking series of gruesome new murders stuns the city in this thrilling historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Speaks for the Damned.It's October 1814. The war with France is finally over and Europe's diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back together...Categorized as:
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![An Unnatural Vice by K.J. Charles]()
An Unnatural Vice by K.J. Charles
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn the sordid streets of Victorian London, unwanted desire flares between two bitter enemies brought together by a deadly secret. Crusading journalist Nathaniel Roy is determined to expose spiritualists who exploit the grief of bereaved and vulnerable people. First on his list is the so-called Seer of London, Justin Lazarus. Nathaniel expects him to be a cheap, heartless fraud...Categorized as:
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![When Maidens Mourn by C.S. Harris]()
When Maidens Mourn by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRegency England, August 1812. Sebastian's plans to escape the heat of London for a honeymoon are shattered when the murdered body of Hero's good friend, Gabrielle Tennyson, is discovered drifting in a battered boat at the site of a long-vanished castle known as Camlet Moat...Categorized as:
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![What Remains of Heaven by C.S. Harris]()
What Remains of Heaven by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLondon, 1812. When the controversial, reform-minded Bishop of London is found bludgeoned to death in an ancient crypt beside the corpse of an unidentified man murdered decades before, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury to help with the investigation...Categorized as:
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What Darkness Brings by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe death of a notorious London diamond merchant draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his new wife Hero into a sordid world of greed, desperation, and the occult, when the husband of Sebastian’s former lover Kat Boleyn is accused of the murder...Categorized as:
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![Who Buries the Dead by C.S. Harris]()
Who Buries the Dead by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe grisly murder of a West Indies slave owner and the reappearance of a dangerous enemy from Sebastian St. Cyr’s past combine to put C. S. Harris’s “troubled but compelling antihero” (Booklist) to the ultimate test in this taut, thrilling mystery.London, 1813. The vicious decapitation of Stanley Preston, a wealthy, socially ambitious plantation owner, at Bloody Bridge draws Sebastian St... -
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When Falcons Fall by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAyleswick-on-Teme, England, 1813 Sebastian has come to this seemingly peaceful Shropshire village to honor a slain friend and to learn more about his own ancestry. But when the body of a lovely widow is found on the banks of the River Teme, a bottle of laudanum at her side, the village’s inexperienced new magistrate turns to St. Cyr for help...Categorized as:
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![Why Mermaids Sing by C.S. Harris, К.С. Харрис]()
Why Mermaids Sing by C.S. Harris, К.С. Харрис
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn 1811 London, murder stalks the city's elite as the sons of prominent families are found in public places, with their bodies mutilated and strange objects stuffed in their mouths, and Sebastian St. Cyr takes time out from his shaky relationship with actress Kat Boleyn to track down the killer...Categorized as:
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Where Serpents Sleep by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsHero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the Prince Regent's cousin, enlists Sebastian St. Cyr's help in investigating the brutal murders of eight prostitutes...Categorized as:
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![The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Story by Arthur Conan Doyle]()
The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsCould the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense. And immersed in another case, he sends Watson to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and observe the suspects close at hand... -
![The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King]()
The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Laurie R. King’s latest Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mystery, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspense—as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice...Categorized as:
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![The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle]()
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 73 ratingsCould the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense. And immersed in another case, he sends Watson to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and observe the suspects close at hand... -
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![Mightier Than the Sword by Jeffrey Archer]()
Mightier Than the Sword by Jeffrey Archer
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsA bomb goes off, but how many passengers on the MV Buckingham have lost their lives? You will find out only if you read the opening chapter of Mightier than the Sword... -
![The Magdalene deception by Gary McAvoy, Will Damron]()
The Magdalene deception by Gary McAvoy, Will Damron
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA forbidden secret . . .The Church’s fate in the balance . . .Will a pair of amateur sleuths expose a truth that could upend the Christian world? Jesus’ resurrection is a cornerstone of Christian faith. But when a clue surfaces that hints at an alternate account, the ramifications stand to change Christianity forever...Categorized as:
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![A MacKenzie Clan Gathering by Jennifer Ashley]()
A MacKenzie Clan Gathering by Jennifer Ashley
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIan Mackenzie is awakened at Kilmorgan Castle one night to find robbers stealing the priceless art collection of his oldest brother, Hart. Since Ian and Beth are the only ones in resident at Kilmorgan at the moment, Ian decides he must find the art and the culprits before the family shows up for Hart's birthday gathering...Categorized as:
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![The Jewels of Halstead Manor by Kasey Stockton]()
The Jewels of Halstead Manor by Kasey Stockton
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe can only stay as long as the invalid needs her... so he makes it his business to need her forever. When a cryptic invitation brings Giulia Pepper to her uncle's remote estate in Devon, she arrives in dire need of a benefactor, only to discover that her uncle never sent her any invitation—nor does he want her there...Categorized as:
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![Bryant & May and the Burning Man by Christopher Fowler]()
Bryant & May and the Burning Man by Christopher Fowler
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNo case is too curious for Arthur Bryant and John May, London’s most ingenious detectives. But with their beloved city engulfed in turmoil, they’ll have to work fast to hold a sinister killer’s feet to the fire. In the week before Guy Fawkes Night, London’s peaceful streets break out in sudden unrest... -
![A Stroke of Malice by Anna Lee Huber]()
A Stroke of Malice by Anna Lee Huber
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLady Kiera Darby and her husband Sebastian Gage are looking forward to relaxing with new friends at an exciting yearly soiree, but they soon learn that murder never takes a holiday in the latest riveting installment in this national bestselling series. Scotland 1832...Categorized as:
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![A Wicked Conceit by Anna Lee Huber]()
A Wicked Conceit by Anna Lee Huber
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEdinburgh, Scotland. March 1832. Kiera and Gage have been eagerly awaiting their bundle of joy but trouble has been brewing in the form of the roguish criminal Bonnie Brock Kincaid. A new book and subsequent play features some of Kincaid's daringly heinous exploits, although he swears he had nothing to do with it or the characters which are obvious representations of Kiera and Gage... -
![Premeditated Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce]()
Premeditated Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA 2021 Edgar ® Award Winner, Best JuvenileA BookPage Best Book of 2020: Middle GradeA Mighty Girl's 2020 Books of the YearIntroducing Myrtle Hardcastle, your favorite new amateur a wickedly smart twelve-year-old with a keen interest in criminology and a nose for murder in Victorian England... -
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Riiginõunik by Boris Akunin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSince the publication of The Winter Queen, a New York Times Notable Book and the first mystery featuring Erast Fandorin, Boris Akunin’s historical mystery series has become a worldwide sensation, selling millions of copies and propelling Akunin into the ranks of Russia’s most widely read contemporary novelists... -
![An Artless Demise by Anna Lee Huber]()
An Artless Demise by Anna Lee Huber
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNovember 1831. After fleeing London in infamy more than two years prior, Lady Kiera Darby’s return to the city is anything but mundane, though not for the reasons she expected. A gang of body snatchers is arrested on suspicion of imitating the notorious misdeeds of Edinburgh criminals, Burke and Hare—killing people from the streets and selling their bodies to medical schools...Categorized as:
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![The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman]()
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman.Lady Augusta Colebrook, "Gus," is determinedly unmarried, bored by society life, and tired of being dismissed at the age of forty-two...Categorized as:
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![The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay]()
The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIkey Solomon is very successful indeed, in the art of thieving. Ikey's partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh journey from 19th century London to Van Diemens Land. In the backstreets and dives of Hobart Town, Mary learns the art of brewing and builds The Potato Factory, where she plans a new future...Categorized as:
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Hang on St. Christopher by Adrian McKinty
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRain slicked streets, riots, murder, chaos. It's July 1992 and the Troubles in Northern Ireland are still grinding on after twenty-five apocalyptic years. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy got his family safely over the water to Scotland, to "Shortbread Land". Duffy's a part-timer now, only returning to Belfast six days a month to get his pension. It's an easy gig, if he can keep his head down...Categorized as:
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![Strangers in Time by David Baldacci]()
Strangers in Time by David Baldacci
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes David Baldacci’s newest novel, set in London in 1944, about a bereaved book shop owner and two teenagers scarred by the second world war, and the healing and hope they find in one another. Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason... -
![The Adventure of Silver Blaze by Arthur Conan Doyle]()
The Adventure of Silver Blaze by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSherlock Holmes had the new investigation. All of England was discussing the tragedy what happened in the stables of King’s Pyland in Dartmoor. Before the crime on the stables where was a horse named Silver Blaze came a Fitzroy Simpson. He worked as a bookmaker in horse racing. He asked too many questions and it angered duty groom. The infuriated groom hardly set a guard dog on him... -
![A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn]()
A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsVeronica Speedwell navigates a dark world of scandal and murder in this new adventure from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award nominated author Deanna Raybourn.Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian colleague Stoker are asked by Lady Wellingtonia Beauclerk to help with a potential scandal so explosive it threatens to rock the monarchy...Categorized as:
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![The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore]()
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsNew York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history--and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win...Categorized as:
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![Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer, Otakar Brousek ml.]()
Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer, Otakar Brousek ml.
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsBestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him... -
![The Frenchman by Lise McClendon]()
The Frenchman by Lise McClendon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this 5th installment of the Bennett Sisters Mysteries, attorney Merle Bennett goes to France for an extended stay to drink in the essence of 'la France Profonde' and write her own novel. But the countryside is not as tranquil as she hoped...Categorized as:
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Risking the Detective by Ellie St. Clair
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe was swindled, ruined, and left for dead. She is determined to rise -- but she will never fall in love again.Madeline Castleton was played for a fool, tricked into a sham of a marriage to a masquerading earl who only wanted her fortune. Now she is determined to prove that she is not a naive young woman but capable of running her father’s stone company...Categorized as:
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![Forgetting the Scot by Jennifer Trethewey]()
Forgetting the Scot by Jennifer Trethewey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVirginia Whitebridge is trapped in a loveless, abusive marriage. The law says her husband can have whatever he wants from her—so he's taken her inheritance. And he tried to kill her. After a close escape, Virginia feels protected for the first time in forever, thanks to the Scottish Highlands and the Highlander Magnus Sinclair... -
![A Gentleman of Mystery by Ellie St. Clair]()
A Gentleman of Mystery by Ellie St. Clair
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Georgina Jenkins pulls a half-dead man out of the Thames, little does she realize that her life will never be the same.As the only woman at Bow Street, Georgie lives by two rules—to never be swayed by emotion, and to seek justice—but only when it’s warranted. For she despises the fact that the punishment fits the station in life, and not the crime, a reality she knows all too well...Categorized as:
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![Heartbreak and Honor by Collette Cameron]()
Heartbreak and Honor by Collette Cameron
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAbducted by a band of renegade Scots, Highland gypsy Tasara Faas blackens her rescuer’s eye when the charming duke attempts to steal a kiss. Afterward, Tasara learns she’s the long-lost heiress Alexandra Atterberry and is expected to take her place among the elite society she’s always disdained... -
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Highland Guard by Hannah Howell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell brings back the daring Murray family in a brand-new tale of dangerous love rekindled. . . Lady Annys MacQueen has no other choice. The deception that enabled her to keep her lands safe is on the verge of being revealed by a cruel kinsman... -
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Guardian Angel by Julie Garwood
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAn alternate cover edition can be found hereThe Emerald flew across the seas, carrying the pirate Pagan -- despised by the ton, whose riches he plundered, and beloved by the poor, whose plight was eased by his gifts. The Marquess of Cainewood vows to hunt down the pirate wretch in revenge for his brother's death...Categorized as:
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The Fatal Flame by Lyndsay Faye
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe final installment in Lyndsay Faye’s Timothy Wilde series, which Lee Child called “solid-gold” and Gillian Flynn declared “spectacular.” No one in 1840s New York likes fires, copper star Timothy Wilde least of all. After a blaze killed his parents and another left him with a terrible scar, he has avoided flames of all kinds...Categorized as:
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