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Wideacre volume 1
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Wideacre Hall is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves, but she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others.
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When four bodies are discovered in the same underground sewer 12 years after the events of A Sight for Sore Eyes, former Chief Inspector Wexford is pulled out of retirement to follow a complex trail to the original murders only to have his life thrown into turmoil by a devastating personal tragedy.
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Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 22
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Over the years there have been several unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham, and Wexford (as a young policeman) quietly suspected that the increasingly prosperous Targo--van driver, property developer, kennel owner, and animal lover--was behind them. Now, half a lifetime later, Inspector Wexford spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence.
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
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343 p. ; 24 cm.
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It's 1920. Three men are dead, all garroted, all war veterans. When a piece of evidence, kept from the public, suggests a much stronger link between the victims and the unknown, it's up to World War I battered survivor, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge to find the killer.
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Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 20
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
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323 p. ; 25 cm.
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While investigating a series of unrelated murders, Inspector Wexford discovers that the victim of a piece of falling concrete, pushed off a highway overpass, is somehow linked to the bludgeoning death of a teenager killed after a late night out with her friends.
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Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
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186 pages ; 23 cm
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Landing a minor role in a theater production, Charles Paris is assigned to help the show's famous American star navigate cultural differences in England, an effort that tangles him up in the actor's complicated relationships and a wrongful murder charge.
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Roy Grace novels volume 9
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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409 pages ; 25 cm
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"New York, 1922. Five-year-old Gavin Daly and his seven-year-old sister, Aileen, are boarding the SS Mauretania to Dublin--and safety. Their mother has been shot and their Irish mobster father abducted. Suddenly, a messenger hands Gavin a piece of paper on which are written four names and eleven numbers, a cryptic message that will haunt him all his life, and his father's pocket watch. As the ship sails, Gavin watches Manhattan fade into the dusk...
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Retired to the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out-a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank...
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Scribner
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2013.
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275 pages ; 24 cm.
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"A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When detective inspector Mike Burden calls him, Wexford, intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. A single-mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was a woman...
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Sussex, England: A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. He is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet sitting by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean), the unremembered past comes flooding back. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the...
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