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Author
Series
Tom Richmonds mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003, c2000
Language
English
22) Telling tales
Author
Series
Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of 15-year old Abigail Mantel. Now new evidence has proved Jeanie's innocence. But Jeanie commits suicide in her prison cell, unable to face the people who had believed her capable of killing a child. On hearing the news, Emma Bennett is haunted once more by memories of her vibrant best friend, Abigail, and by the thought that her killer is still at large.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the village of Noon Sun, Benedict Stone has settled into a predictable routine. Business at his jewelry shop has dried up; his marriage is on the rocks. His life is in desperate need of a jump start. And then a surprise arrives at his door. Gemma is Benedict's audacious niece - the daughter of his estranged brother, Charlie. The two brothers haven't spoken in almost two decades, since Charlie left for America. Reckless and stubborn, Gemma invites...
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Language
English
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Description
Through the years of success in Hollywood composing music for the world's most lauded films, Chris always promised his wife they would return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now, after his wife's death, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to come to terms with his grief and the quiet to allow him to compose his piano sonata. But when he finds that the house was the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered on a disused railway line near his home. He has 5,000 euros in his pocket, yet in the four years since his dismissal has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, much to the chagrin of his boss, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When a woman is choked to death in a ditch, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from "Hamlet." The career of the Yorkshire Choker is underway. Unimpressed by the literary phone calls, Detective-Superintendent Dalziel is angry when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant.
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Our narrator is stuck at home alone under lockdown, where she remembers her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. The ecological phenomena that start in her own backyard interconnect and spread out from China to Nicaragua as pesticides circulate, money flows around the planet, and bodies feel the force of distant power"--
32) A narrow door
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered. Rebecca will bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A body fished from the Thames opens this British-style whodunit by an American author. It stars the Scotland Yard superintendent, Duncan Kincaid, and his sergeant, Gemma Jones, as they investigate the drowning of the black sheep of a wealthy family. Zest is added to the probe by the growing attraction between Kincaid and the victim's widow, something which his lady sergeant frowns upon. By the author of A Share in Death.
34) Never alone
Author
Publisher
Myriad Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Carpenter lives with her two dogs in a farmhouse, high on the North Yorkshire moors. Alone for the first time since her husband died and her children left home, she isn't exactly lonely but welcomes the arrival of an old friend, Aiden Beck, who needs a place to stay. Aiden clearly has secrets, but then so does Sarah, and that's no reason not to respond to his warmth and charm. But something doesn't feel quite right. As the weather closes in,...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 4
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Two lost souls cut off from their heritage find solace in each other in this remix of the gothic novel Wuthering Heights"--
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll flee their repressive boarding school, intending to start over in the theaters of Paris, but they instead find themselves at Cedric's estate in Yorkshire, where a hidden garden helps them realize their destiny.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan look for a pattern in the disappearances of teenage girls across the country. Authorities are convinced the girls are runaways. Hill and Jordan have spent years exploring the psyches of madmen--but they know sane men kill, too. When one of Hill's students is murdered, it's the first move in a sick and violent game for three players. Now, of all the killers Hill and Jordan have hunted, none has been...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
1899, South Yorkshire Fourteen-year-old Tommy has been destined to a life working down the mines since the moment he was born. But he has bigger plans for his future. His best friend Josie from the neighbouring village is equally restless. The wealthy family that owns the mines are dictating harsher conditions than ever. The one source of intrigue and pleasure in their grim Yorkshire life is their fascination with the deserted house between their...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"A peaceful demonstration in the normally quiet town of Eastvale ends with fifty arrests and the brutal stabbing death of a young constable. But Chief Inspector Alan Banks fears there is worse violence in the offing. For CID Superintendent Richard Burgess has arrived from London to take charge of the investigation, fueled by professional outrage and volatile, long-simmering hatreds. Almost immediately, Burgess descends with vengeful fury upon the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Flame Tree Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1893, Evelyn and Claire leave their home in a Yorkshire town for life in a rural retreat on their beloved moors. But when a strange toy - the Garden of Bewitchment - mysteriously appears, a chain of increasingly terrifying events is unleashed. Neighbor Matthew Dixon befriends Evelyn, but seems to have more than one secret to hide. Then the horror really begins. The Garden of Bewitchment is all too real and something is threatening the lives and...
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