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Survivors (Shana Galen) volume 3
Language
English
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Rafe Beaumont, 5th son of the Earl of Haddington, is naturally seductive. Women flock to him, and he knows just how to get them to swoon. These skills were well utilized during the wars, when he seduced wives and mistresses of Napolean's confidants to glean secrets and battle plans. Now he's hot on the trail of Napoleon's most elusive assassin. Rafe must find him through his daughter, but she seems immune to flattery and entirely unseducible. Colette...
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Series
Jason Bourne series volume 16
Language
English
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"Three years ago, Jason Bourne embarked on a mission in Estonia with his partner and lover, a fiery UK-based Treadstone agent code-named Nova. Their job was to rescue a Russian double agent. They failed. Now everything has changed for Bourne. Nova is gone, killed in a mass shooting in Las Vegas, and Bourne is a lone operative working for Treadstone when he's called in for a new mission in London. But nothing is what it seems, and Bourne discovers...
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Series
W.A.R.P volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his reluctant teenaged apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using his newly acquired scientific knowledge and power to change the world forever.
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Series
Karen Nash mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Champion of the mystery section in a Minnesota library, Karen Nash is embarking on a dream trip to London. But she is clueless why the love of her mid-life, Dave, would dump her hours before take-off, until she spies him at the airport with a young honey! She decides the best revenge is to get on that plane anyway and entertain schemes for Dave's untimely demise. After touching ground in the hallowed homeland of Christie, Sayers, and Peters, she checks...
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"On an Earth that is not our own, Victoria never ascended the throne; the House of Hanover held England only briefly before being supplanted by the House of Harminster. It is a time of gaslamps and regularly scheduled airship flights, of trams and steam-driven clockwork with countless smoke-belching stacks. London, the capitol of the Empire of the Lion, is a filthy, crowded, fast-growing city where a series of shocking murders threatens the throne...
7) Shadow play
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Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When the body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Simpson's car workshop, DCI Bill Slider and his team soon surmise that the victim was someone's 'enforcer'. So who was Mr King? Who was he the muscle for? And what did he know that made someone decide to terminate the terminator?"--Publisher's description.
8) Cold kill
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Actress Adelaide Banks is swapping her native New York for London to spend Christmas with her widowed Aunt Rose. Rose wrote in her note that she was off to Paris for a few days and would be back in time for Addy's arrival. But when Addy reaches Rose's Knightsbridge address, no one's home, and she has two unexpected callers . . .Where is Rose, and what has she got herself entangled in? Dragged into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse on the snowy streets...
9) Evernight
Author
Series
Darkest London volume 5
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Will Thorne is living a nightmare, his sanity slowly being drained away by a force he can't control. His talents have made him the perfect assassin for hire. But as he loses his grip on reality, there is no calming him-until he finds his next target: the mysterious Holly Evernight. Holly cannot fathom who would put a contract on her life, yet the moment she touches Will, the connection between them is elemental, undeniable-and she's the only one who...
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Series
Richter novels volume 3
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Jacqueline 'Jax' Simon knows how to expose secrets: she's a skilled operative with MacBain Security and Solutions. When Jax hears her parents are divorcing, she races to London to find out why. She's determined to learn the truth, especially when her investigation uncovers why her parents sent her to Richter, the German military school that made her a fighter. Andrew Craig collects Jax at Heathrow Airport as a favor. He's heard she's a handful, but...
11) Dance with death
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1893: Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are called in to protect Tsesarevich Nicholas from nefarious forces as he travels to England for a royal wedding-in Dance with Death, the next mystery in Will Thomas's beloved series. In June of 1893, the future Nicholas II travels to London for a royal wedding, bringing with him his private security force and his ballerina mistress, Mathilde Kchessinska. Rumored to be the target...
12) Fierce poison
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1893, there is poisoner loose in the city, with deaths piling up, and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are apparently his next target in Fierce Poison by Will Thomas. Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker has just about seen it all--he's been attacked by assassins, his office has been bombed, and evil-doers have even nearly killed his dog. But never before has a potential client dropped dead in his office. When Roland...
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