Maisie Dobbs’ life takes strange turns from housemaid to graduate, nurse on the frontlines to private inquiry agent whose first case forces her to revisit the horrors of the Great War and the love she left behind.
]Her antiques business thriving and so much to lose, Josie Prescott can’t help but worry when murder invades her seemingly quiet community.
On Tom and Faith’s 20th anniversary, it’s a flashback to a month after The Body in the Big Apple when Faith will have to Have Faith that life up in the wilds of Massachusetts won’t be so bad
Molly Murphy is supposed to give up sleuthing now that she’s married, but the murder of an alderman puts her on the trail of a killer.
I received this book for free from my own shelves in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: my own shelves Rutland Placeby Anne Perry historical mystery in a Kindle edition that was published by Open Road Media on June 14, 2011 and has 226 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, Cardington Crescent, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingFifth in the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt historical mystery series set in late Victorian London and revolving around Detective Inspector Pitt and his busybody of a wife. My Take This particular story provides an in-depth look at how the mere accident of losing a trinket can have a profound effect on everyone in one’s circle. Followed with that step up to true scandal whether it’s murder or stepping out on one’s spouse. For all the desperation Caroline feels about recovering her locket, I don’t see why she doesn’t come right […]
The “Manners Killer” intends a long-overdue lesson on the importance of manners. But Brant is ornery enough that if anyone is getting away with murder on his patch, it’ll be him.
Sister Frevisse must discover who robbed a rich landowner of his purse and his life–even if it means her own kin is condemned.
Scotland Yard has disguised Miss Seeton as a high roller to get a police sketch of a mysterious crime boss. But she is soon playing a very dangerous game of big money and murder, and it is a sure bet that someone — perhaps Miss Seeton — is in mortal danger.
When a flood of perfectly faked banknotes hits the market, retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton, Scotland Yard’s famed ‘MissEss’, is chosen to investigate a respected Geneva bank. Somehow, the forger is also mixed up in the theft of valuable paintings, so it’s ‘set an artist to catch an artist’.
FLASH! Illuminated by lightning, a lifeless human hand seems to reach from a barrel of asphalt beside the Charlotte racetrack. A body that the FBI confiscates and destroys. Then a young engineer alerts Tempe. Soon after, the engineer’s body is found crushed.