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Author
Series
Philip Dryden novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life-until a convicted killer tells her that four of his victims were never found, drawing her back to the place she left behind"--
Convicted murderer Amyas March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal. Nelson was always sure that March killed more women than he was charged with, and March offers to show Nelson where the other bodies are buried-- but only if Ruth Galloway will do the digging. When she warily...
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
His life and work are bound by order, measurement and science. One day lost on the level he spies a Fenswoman and everything he thought he knew starts to unravel. Rich with the language of seventeenth-century endeavour, this novel is a lush portrait of the contradictory forces of order and passion that converged to make America, and a prescient warning of its future.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lassair awakes in the morning in 1092 with the feeling that something in the spirit world is trying to reach her. When Lassair learns that a nun has been murdered at the same nunnery where her sister lives, Lassair sets out to investigate.
5) Wakenhyrst
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father. When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened. Maud's battle has begun. She must survive a world haunted by witchcraft, the age-old legends of her beloved fen, and the even...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
Apprentice healer Lassair isn't too alarmed when a travelling peddler relates a grisly tale of a red-bearded giant breaking into a woman's home and caving in her skull like an eggshell; peddlers, she has observed, tend towards the dramatic. But her attitude changes when she learns that the dead woman is a distant relation. The incident makes Lassair's family uneasy, for the intruder seemed to be searching for something. What could it be? Lassair has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Eleventh century Cambridge is rocked by a series of brutal murders. Called out to attend a body found on a lonely stretch of river bank, its throat torn out, apprentice healer Lassair is sceptical of the sheriff{u2019}s verdict that this was the result of a wild animal attack. But when a second body is discovered, similarly mutilated, rumours engulf the town that the legendary demon known as the Night Wanderer has returned to wreak havoc.
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