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81) Neverwhere
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Richard Mayhew's life is forever changed after he rescues a young girl named Door and finds himself living in a city of monsters, saints, murderers, and angels, and he must help Door on her mission to save this strange underworld kingdom from destruction.
83) Closer
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
527 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Will Burrows believes he is safe at the very center of the earth, in a world that no one knows exists, but the Styx are close behind and will follow him anywhere, while on the surface, Drake and some unlikely allies unearth some critical secrets.
Author
Series
A Dickens of a crime novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charles Dickens and his fianc�ee Kate Hogarth must solve the murder of an elderly spinster who was found dead in her flat wearing a faded wedding gown.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a physician at the struggling St. Luke's Hospital in east London. Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, overworked staff and underfunded wards, a more insidious secret soon declares itself: too many patients are dying. And a murderer may be lurking in plain sight.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.
89) Traitors Gate
Author
Series
William Warwick volume 6
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"24 hours to stop the crime of the century The race against time is about to begin... THE TOWER OF LONDON... Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, when the Queen attends the State Opening of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armory as they transport the Crown Jewels across London. SCOTLAND YARD... For decades, the elite squad at Scotland Yard...
Author
Series
Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The prime suspect in the brutal rape and murder of a young woman whose body is left in an ancient church, young aristocrat Sebastian St. Cyr becomes a fugitive and flees a ruthless powerbroker with ties to the Prince Regent.
Author
Series
Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In Brighton, England, in 1811, when the wife of an aging marquis is found dead in the arms of the Prince Regent, wearing an ancient necklace with mysterious ties to Sebastian St. Cyr, Sebastian turns sleuth to investigate the woman's death.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unable to confront the challenges in her own life, Cara Hargraves immerses herself in work for her antiques-dealer boss, uncovering relics from the life of World War II British "Gunner Girl" Louise Keene and her complicated relationship with a man named Paul.
93) The fraud
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper-and cousin by marriage-of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
94) Career of evil
Author
Series
A Cormoran Strike novel volume 3
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
497 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a woman's severed leg is delivered to Robin Ellacott, her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, looks into his past to determine who is responsible.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
507 p. : geneal. tables ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the life of Lady Jane Gray's younger sister, Katherine, interweaves the tragic story of her imprisonment in the Tower of London with the fates of three other innocent political prisoners including Kate Plantagenet and boy princes Edward and Richard.
96) The empty grave
Author
Series
Lockwood and Co volume 5
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"With the help of some unexpected, and rather ghostly, allies, Lockwood & Co. must battle their greatest enemy yet, as they move ever closer to the moment when the earth-shattering secret of 'the problem' will finally be revealed"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Private detective William Monk is hired by a mysterious client who wants him to discover whether or not her fiance, a railway firm executive, engages in fraudulent practices, a case that brings Monk face to face with his past.
98) Paragon walk
Author
Series
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009, c1981
Physical Desc
257 p. : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the affluent London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable and baffling crime was committed: a young woman was raped and murdered. Once again the incomparable team of Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As the elegant masks of the aristocratic suspects begin to slip, it became appallingly clear that something ugly lurked behind the handsome facades of Paragon Walk - something that could lead...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Karen White weaves a story of friendship past and present, love, and betrayal that moves between war-torn London during the Blitz and the present day. London, 1939. In a city on the brink of war, beautiful and ambitious Eva Harlow and her best friend, sweet Southerner Precious Dubose, are young models on the rise--and a duo as close as sisters. But when Eva falls in love with Graham St. John, an aristocrat and former...