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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While in the Australian Outback grooming a newfound heir, Jack Altringham, for high society, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself investigating the murder of the Duke who was found with Jack's hunting knife in his back.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a "land girl," tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It's here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. The journals inspire Emily, and in the wake of devastating news, they are her saving grace. Emily's lover has not only died a hero but has left her terrified--and with child. Since no one knows that...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Molly Murphy, Rhys Bowen's plucky P I in 1903 New York, sails back to her native Ireland on a case searching for the sister of an Irish-American impresario. But, before the ship reaches Ireland, her maid is found murdered and a famous Irish actress goes missing. Molly is shocked to discover a cache of rifles in the actress' luggage.
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie (Georgie), who has bolted from Scotland and headed to London, receives a summons from the Queen to spy on her playboy son.
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Molly Murphy - now Molly Sullivan - is a year into her marriage, expecting her first child, and confined to the life of a housewife. The most important decision Molly faces these days is whether the lace curtains need cleaning, and she's restless and irritable in the heat of a New York summer and the enforced idleness of pregnancy. So when a trip to the post office brings a letter addressed to her old detective agency asking her to locate a missing...
7) Oh Danny boy
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Irish immigrant-turned-private detective Molly Murphy comes to the aid of handsome NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan, who has been arrested for accepting bribes, in a mystery set in early twentieth-century New York.
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 15
Language
English
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It's Christmastime in 1905 New York City, and for once, Molly Murphy Sullivan is looking forward to the approaching holidays. She has a family of her own now: she and Daniel have a baby son and twelve-year-old Bridie is living with them as their ward. As Molly and the children listen to carolers in the street, they hear a lovely voice, the voice of an angel, and see a beggar girl huddled in a doorway, singing "Away in a Manger." Bridie is touched...
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Meeting resistance in her efforts to become a private detective in 1901 New York City, Molly Murphy works to track down the wayward daughter of an aristocratic family and goes undercover in the garment business to expose industrial espionage. 1901, New York City. Molly Murphy is determined to be a private detective, she's finding many places where women are not welcome, something that's as frustrating to her fiery Irish pride as it is to her rapidly...
10) In a gilded cage
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Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Irish-born detective and Vasser graduate Molly Murphy is hired to find out the truth about her friend's missionary parents' deaths and her loss of inheritance. Another Vasser grad has a philandering husband to track.
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
With her turn-of-the-twentieth-century detective agency busier than ever, Molly Murphy finds her life further complicated when she and her beau, police captain Daniel Sullivan, stumble upon a young woman lying unconscious in the snow in Central Park.
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Lady Georgiana Rannoch won't deny that being thirty-fifth in line for the British throne has its advantages. Unfortunately, money isn't one of them. And sometimes making ends meet requires her to investigate a little royal wrongdoing, [in this case acting as a companion to Prince George's fiancée at the supposedly haunted Kensington Palace and dispelling any rumors about his libertine history]"--Dust jacket flap.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks's world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband Stan is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie's beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go. Evacuated to the English countryside, Josie ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host to the survivors of the Blitz. Awed as she is by...
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Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"When Georgie O'Mara's best friend Belinda inherits a house in Cornwall, she asks Georgie to go with her to inspect the property. Belinda's house proves uninhabitable, so they accept an invitation to stay at Trewoma Hall with Rose and Tony Summers. This is far from ideal, as Belinda once had a fling with Tony -- and he seems intent on rekindling it. The awkward visit turns deadly when a member of the household is found murdered. Georgie learns that...
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful-home in Patchin Place, filled with family, friends, and laughter. Molly and Daniel have a good marriage, a true partnership where they value each other's opinions in all things. So when he tells her they're moving...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper ... Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet "Lettie" Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it's a...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victoria's royal kitchen, setting off a suspenseful, historical mystery ... Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella's hand. It's an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is...
19) Death of Riley
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When her new employer is unexpectedly murdered, apprentice private investigator Molly Murphy is determined to catch the killer despite the skepticism of handsome NYPD detective Daniel Sullivan.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves....
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