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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 13
Language
English
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Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife are enjoying an evening at the theater when Judge Stafford is murdered in a box near theirs. When Justice Stafford dies of opium poisoning, his demise resurrects one of England's most sensational cases.
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English
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As commander of the powerful Special Branch, Thomas Pitt has the job of keeping Britain safe from spies and traitors. So there's no obvious reason why he is suddenly ordered to investigate two minor incidents: the blood, hair, and shards of glass discovered outside the home of naval weapons expert Dudley Kynaston, and the simultaneous disappearance of Mrs. Kynaston's beautiful lady's maid. But weeks later, when the mutilated body of an unidentified...
4) The kill
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Series
Maeve Kerrigan novels volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
6) Blood line
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Series
Anna Travis mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Still reeling from the death of her fiance, Detective Anna Travis has thrown herself into her new role as the chief inspector for London's murder squad. When Scotland Yard's missing persons bureau is unable to locate the son of a court employee, the superintendent--James Langton, Anna's former lover turned sometimes friend--urges her to take on the suspicious assignment. But is this new investigation purely a missing persons case--or a full-blown...
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 22
Language
English
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As a pivotal election approaches, Thomas Pitt finds himself investigating the murder of a clairvoyant as part of his job of protecting the Liberal candidate against the schemes of the Tory candidate and the secret society he leads known as the Inner Circle.
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Series
Anna Travis mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Bourbon Street Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 21
Language
English
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Based on real events, this is the story of the political manipulations that cause Thomas Pitt to be assigned to the clandestine Special Branch in the dangerous East End of London.
10) Seven dials
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 23
Language
English
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Thomas Pitt of Her Majesty's Special Branch investigates the murder of a diplomat whose body turns up at a mansion inhabited by the notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari and her rumored lover, Senior Cabinet Minister Saville Ryerson.
11) The burning
Author
Series
Maeve Kerrigan novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"The Burning Man. It's the name the media has given a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of London's parks. And now there's a fifth. Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable, keen to make her mark on the murder task force. Her male colleagues believe Maeve's empathy clouds her judgment, but the more she learns about the latest victim, Rebecca Haworth, from her grieving...
12) Above suspicion
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Rookie homicide detective Anna Travis who, during her first case, tracks a serial killer who has transitioned from prostitute victims to innocent students, a murderer who may possibly be a famous actor.
Author
Series
Maeve Kerrigan novels volume 9
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Rumours… Everyone’s heard the rumours about elite gentlemen’s clubs, where the champagne flows freely, the parties are outrageous…and what goes on behind closed doors is darker than you could possibly imagine. Paige Hargreaves was a young journalist working on a story about a club for the most privileged men in London. She was on the brink of exposing a shocking scandal. Then she disappeared. DS Maeve Kerrigan must immerse herself in the club’s...
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Publisher
Artemis Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Doyle was back at Scotland Yard after taking maternity leave, and the powers-that-be had decided they'd ease her way by assigning her to assist DS Isabella Munoz, which was a fate only slightly worse than death. ...[T]he first assignment out of the box was a possible suicide at the housing projects, something that happened with such regularity that it was a wonder the responding officer had even thought it worthy of a detective's notice."--Provided...
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Series
Lacey Flint novels volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Now living in a houseboat on the River Thames, Lacey Flint is becoming a part of London's weird and wonderful riverboat community. But at dawn one hot summer morning, Lacey finds the body of a shrouded young woman in the river. She assumes it was chance--after all she's recently joined the marine policing unit--but further investigation leads her team to suspect it was deliberately left for her to find. She is no longer a detective, but as she begins...
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Detective Kathleen Doyle has her hands full. She has recently been paired with the newly promoted Detective Sergeant Williams to investigate a turf war--a series of retribution murders between the Russians and the Irish, both of whom are trying to control a lucrative underworld business. Kathleen also just learned that she's pregnant and must now deal with the repercussions of her hasty marriage in the form of Chief Inspector Acton's mother, the displeased...
17) Now you see me
Author
Series
Lacey Flint novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
Late one night after interviewing a witness, Lacey Flint, a young detective constable, stumbles onto a woman brutally stabbed just moments before. Within twenty-four hours, a reporter receives an anonymous letter pointing out alarming similarities between the murder and Jack the Ripper's first murder-a letter that calls out Lacey by name. If it's real, and they have a killer bent on re-creating London's bloody past, history shows they have just five...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Thomas Pitt, once a lowly policeman, is now the powerful head of Britain's Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. He, too, feels painful moments of self-doubt, especially as rumors reach him of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line--on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel to visit his royal English kin. Why would anyone destroy an entire train to kill one obscure...
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English
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"Commander Thomas Pitt, head of Special Branch, is called to the scene of a brutal explosion in the heart of London. The bomb was set off during an important--and secret--police raid, killing several officers, and the government suspects anarchists are at work. But what Pitt discovers is far more disturbing: the explosion was not a terrorist attack meant to sow chaos, but a calculated means to commit a targeted murder. And the evidence trail leads...
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