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Author
Series
Lady and lady's maid mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Lady Phoebe Renshaw investigates the murder of an illustrious china manufacturer with the aid of her lady's maid, Eva, who goes undercover at the ceramic works.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help! From Reese's Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes an absolute tour de force--the wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite, and band together to solve amurder mystery involving one of their own.
Author
Series
Fairy tale fatal volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
After fast-talking her way into the role of lady's maid to a New York millionaire's bride, gutsy America actress Ophelia Flax finds herself in the heart of Grimm territory where she is faced with murder and mayhem after the ruins of Snow White's cottage are discovered nearb
10) The latecomers
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
In 1908, sixteen-year-old Bridey runs away from her small town in Ireland with her sweetheart Thom. But Thom dies of ship fever, leaving Bridey alone and pregnant in a strange new world. The Latecomers spans a century of American life and reminds us that we can never truly leave the past behind.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
265 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Under a bundle of mistletoe, art collector Daniel McCourt lies with his throat slit, a bloody sword next to his body. Inspector Witherspoon is determined to solve the case--preferably before the eggnog is ladled out on Christmas Eve--but of course he will require assistance from the always sharp-witted housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, who has a few of her own theories on why McCourt had to die by the sword.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
"Mother of two Liv Green barely scrapes by as a maid to make ends meet, often finding escape in a good book while daydreaming of becoming a writer herself. So she can't believe her luck when she lands a job housekeeping for her personal hero, megabestselling author Essie Starling, a mysterious and intimidating recluse. The last thing Liv expected was to be the only person Essie talks to, which leads to a tenuous friendship. When Essie passes away...
13) The housemaid
Author
Series
Housemaid novels volume 1
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"'Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own... Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole...
14) The plum tree
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"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for. Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations.
16) Whiskey Beach
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Suffering an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiance's murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery.
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Set in eighteenth-century Spitalfields, London, Blackberry and Wild Rose is the rich and atmospheric tale of a household of Huguenot silk weavers as the pursuit of the perfect silk design leads them all into ambition, love, and betrayal.
When Esther Thorel, wife of a master silk weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel, she thinks she is doing God's will, but her good deed is not returned. Sara quickly realizes that the Thorel household is built...
Author
Series
Lady and lady's maid mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
The lean times following the Great War continue to require creative solutions for England's noble class. To make ends meet, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, have decided to open up Foxwood Hall to guided public tours. Their first tour group consists of members of the Historical Society, a magazine writer, and a flock of students. When the widow Arvina Bell goes missing, Eva goes in search of her-- only to find her in the library,...
19) The art of dying
Author
Series
Way of all flesh volume 2
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
408 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances. Simpson's protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher are determined to clear their patron's name. But with...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2009
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Description
He is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiar problem--since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper with a 10-year-old son who is hired to care for the professor. Between them, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms.
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