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  • The Lost by Irina Shapiro

    The Lost by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    2018. When a skeleton is found entangled in the roots of an ancient tree on Rhys Morgan’s country estate, Quinn is persuaded to come out of retirement to film one more episode of the Echoes from the Past series. But the nameless skeleton proves to be the least of her problems when secrets from the past suddenly come to light and a new threat looms over her family.1777...
  • The Hanging Tree by Irina Shapiro

    The Hanging Tree by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In 1640, Alys Bailey was accused of witchcraft and sentenced to hang. Today, Alys is said to haunt Lockwood Hall, the Tudor manor house where she died. When Nicole Rayburn travels to Lockwood Hall and begins to research Alys’s story for a new book, she discovers startling irregularities in Alys’s case. Nicole’s suspicions mount as every answer leads to more questions...
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  • Guarding Danger by Wendy Vella

    Guarding Danger by Wendy Vella

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Two things happen to Harry Sinclair the day his ship docks in London: he saves a woman in distress, and meets his long- lost family.Until now Harry has lived his life without betraying the vow he made to his father - never trust a Sinclair. Yet when his newly discovered cousins step aboard his ship he knows that everything is about to change...
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    regency  victorian  historical  paranormal  fantasy  humor
  • If He's Wild by Hannah Howell

    If He's Wild by Hannah Howell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Lady Alethea Vaughn Channing is haunted by a vision of a man in danger - the same man who she has seen in dreams time and time again. She doesn't even know his name, and yet she feels the connection between them, knows she is the only one standing between him and disaster...
  • Haunting Mr Darcy: A Spirited Courtship by KaraLynne Mackrory

    Haunting Mr Darcy: A Spirited Courtship by KaraLynne Mackrory

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What happens to the happily ever after when the ever after has already happened? A ‘spirited’ courtship indeed! Jane Austen's much adored Pride and Prejudice is transfigured in this Regency adaptation. That fickle friend Fate intervenes when an unexpected event threatens the happily ever after of literature's favorite love story...
  • Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    SWEET DREAMS AREN’T MADE OF THISEver since she was a child, Stacey Hanson has had strange dreams—and sometimes they come true. Her skills and experience led her straight to the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters. Now a serial killer is stalking Washington, DC, and people are scared. And it will be Stacey’s first case...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  paranormal  fantasy
  • A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn

    A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Members of an Egyptian expedition fall victim to an ancient mummy's curse in a thrilling Veronica Speedwell novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries.   London, 1888...
  • If He's Daring by Hannah Howell

    If He's Daring by Hannah Howell

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    In a dazzling new novel in the Wherlocke family saga, New York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell creates an unforgettable story of intrigue, jeopardy, and desire. . . Stealing a stranger's carriage is the second most reckless thing Lady Catrin Gryffin de Warrene has ever done. The first is succumbing to her powerful attraction to the carriage's owner...
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    regency  m-f  historical  paranormal  fantasy  open-door
  • The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton. Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving...
  • I Dreamt of Netherfield: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Lin Mei Wei

    I Dreamt of Netherfield: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Lin Mei Wei

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Elizabeth Bennet walks three miles to Netherfield to look after her beloved sister, she wishes for nothing more but to see Jane restored to health and to Longbourn. What she most certainly does not want is to be continuously thrown into increasingly dangerous adventures with the arrogant Mr. Darcy...
  • Silent in the Sanctuary by Deanna Raybourn

    Silent in the Sanctuary by Deanna Raybourn

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    fresh from a six-month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia returns home to Sussex to find her father's estate crowded with family and friends— but dark deeds are afoot at the deconsecrated abbey, and a murderer roams the ancient cloisters...
  • The Unforgiven by Heather Graham

    The Unforgiven by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A tragic past. An uncertain futureTwelve years after the grisly murder of her parents, Kaitlyn Delaney has finally found peace. She has friends, a good job, a place to call home and a new life to live. But then a shadow creeps in from Katie’s past, reminding her that she will never completely escape its terrifying grip...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  paranormal  fantasy
  • The Forbidden by Heather Graham

    The Forbidden by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She is someone's darkest desire Playing the victim of a vampire king on an island off New Orleans is actress Avalon Morgan’s creepiest role to date. It’s also scary good fun—until the victim of a real killer is discovered on set, laid out for all to see. With production shut down, Avalon can’t stop thinking about the chilling crime scene, or Finley Stirling, the FBI agent working the case...
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    mystery  suspense  m-f  paranormal  historical  fantasy
  • The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White

    The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 22 ratings
    With her relationship with writer Jack Treholm as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie’s juggling a number of problems. Like restoring her Tradd Street house...and resisting her mother’s pressure to ‘go public’ with her talent—a sixth sense that unites them to the lost souls of the dead. But Melanie never anticipated her new problem...
  • Mariana by Susanna Kearsley

    Mariana by Susanna Kearsley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    From the winner of the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, this mesmerizing, suspenseful, and richly atmospheric tale of time travel draws us into the heart of a heroine we won't soon forget... The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but she knew that it was her house. And now that she’s at last become its owner, she suspects that she was drawn there for a reason...
  • The House That Death Built: A Gothic Thriller of Romance and Mystery by Mel Stone

    The House That Death Built: A Gothic Thriller of Romance and Mystery by Mel Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A country girl. A grieving stranger. And a secret that will bind them forever…Arthur knows nothing but sorrow. His past is filled with secrets, trials, and death. On his way to settle his affairs with his deceased wife’s family he tears his shirt and enters a small village shop for a repair. There he meets Joy.Joy is not impressed by the stranger visiting their little village...
  • Forget Me Not by Michelle M. Pillow

    Forget Me Not by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Re-Edited and Revised 17th Anniversary EditionRegency Paranormal Gothic RomanceFrom NYT Bestselling Author Michelle M. Pillow comes a tragically beautiful love story that defies perception.When the scandalously independent Isabel Drake refuses to marry the man her parents choose for her, they force her to take lessons on how to become a respectable lady...
  • Opening Gambit by Tilly Wallace

    Opening Gambit by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This pawn is going to take control of the game… Seraphina Winyard is an abomination—a female mage. The first magic wielder of her sex to reach adulthood in three hundred years, she is treated like a zoological exhibit and leads a restricted life. Determined to escape and control her own destiny, she seizes a chance for freedom. But when her guardian is murdered, suspicion falls on the young mage...
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    mystery  regency  suspense  m-f  fantasy  paranormal  historical  magic
  • Passage of Shadows by Chasity Bowlin

    Passage of Shadows by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Don’t miss the exciting conclusion to The Victorian Gothic Collection… The plots, schemes and machinations at Cysgod Lys, from both mortal and immortal sources, are coming to a head...
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    mystery  victorian  paranormal  fantasy  historical
  • The Girl On Legare Street by Karen White

    The Girl On Legare Street by Karen White

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Acclaimed author Karen White returns with the sequel to the national bestseller The House on Tradd Street. Melanie has grown accustomed to renovating old houses, but she never imagined she'd have to renovate her own life to include her estranged mother. Ginnette Prioleau Middleton left Charleston thirty-five years ago...
  • Remnant: A Caldwell & Feximal/Whyborne & Griffin Mystery by K.J. Charles, Jordan L. Hawk

    Remnant: A Caldwell & Feximal/Whyborne & Griffin Mystery by K.J. Charles, Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    London, 1899. The beautiful people are dying… A malevolent power is attacking London’s bright young things, and the only clue to what's happening is written in ancient Egyptian script. As ghost-hunter Simon Feximal and his companion Robert Caldwell investigate the mysterious deaths, the arrival in London of a notorious scholar-sorcerer seems to hold the answer to more than one of their problems...
  • Trust Me by Jayne Ann Krentz

    Trust Me by Jayne Ann Krentz

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    The captivating new novel from the New York Times best selling author of Grand Passion! Passion is simple, but there's no logic to love...
  • The Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine

    The Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak.In the summer of 1940, eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England: the Battle for Britain has just begun. But Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but a dashing young pilot called Tony...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  paranormal  war  fantasy
  • House of Shadows by Pamela Hartshorne

    House of Shadows by Pamela Hartshorne

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Kate Vavasour wakes in hospital, she can remember nothing about the family gathered around her bed, or of her life before the accident. The doctors diagnose post-traumatic amnesia and say the memories should start returning. Which they do . . . but these memories are not her own. They belong to Isabel Vavasour, who lived and died at Askerby Hall over four hundred years earlier . .
  • Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

    Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers...
  • The Color of Light by Karen White

    The Color of Light by Karen White

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    At thirty-two, pregnant and recently divorced, Jillian Parrish and her seven-year-old daughter find refuge and solace on Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Jillian had experienced her best childhood memories here-until her best friend Lauren Mills disappeared, never to be found. At the time, Linc Rising, Lauren's boyfriend and Jillian's confidant, had been a suspect in Lauren's disappearance...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  paranormal  fantasy
  • Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Seven Sisters, an antebellum restoration in downtown Mobile, has come to life recently...and not in ways historian Carrie Jo Jardine had expected. After battling and surviving a dangerous encounter with a visitor from the past, Carrie Jo and Seven Sisters’ handsome owner Ashland Stuart have one last mystery to uncover...
  • Charming the Recluse by Mindy Burbidge Strunk

    Charming the Recluse by Mindy Burbidge Strunk

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 6 ratings
    A gothic castle, a noble curmudgeon, and a candid miss.After the tragic death of his sister, Arawn Beavin withdrew from all Society and vowed to stay cooped up in his family’s castle for the rest of his life. If only his mother were so accommodating. As their year of mourning comes to an end, his mother summons her favorite modiste to the castle...
  • The Eight by Katherine Neville

    The Eight by Katherine Neville

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scatter its pieces around the world. But in 1972, computer expert Catherine "Cat" Velis is hired to recover the chess pieces--and is caught up in a nefarious, globe-spanning conspiracy...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  paranormal  fantasy  magic
  • The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla by Lauren Willig

    The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla by Lauren Willig

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 16 ratings
    In the latest Pink Carnation novel from national bestselling author Lauren Willig, rumors spreading among the ton turn deadly as a young couple unites to solve a mystery....   In October of 1806, the Little Season is in full swing, and Sally Fitzhugh has had enough of the endless parties and balls...
  • A Proper Dragon by E.B. Wheeler

    A Proper Dragon by E.B. Wheeler

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If Phoebe's magic doesn't behave, London will be a disaster.Phoebe Hart is one of the dragon-linked, those chosen by a young dragon as a companion, who get magic in return. Her family and country neighbors have never been happy about her abilities, so she hopes to find her place in London...
    Categorized as:
    regency  mystery  fantasy  historical  magic  paranormal
  • Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a young, wealthy heiress, Calpurnia Cottonwood, disappears from Seven Sisters in 1850, rumors swirl. But no trace of the girl had ever been found--until now. Historian Carrie Jo Jardine and her handsome employer, Ashland Stuart, find clues to the heiress' whereabouts and even more mysteries are revealed. With Carrie Jo's ability to dream about the past, she watches a sinister plot unfold...
  • Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets by Rosemary Simpson

    Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets by Rosemary Simpson

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries… In Gilded Age New York, heiress Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter investigate crimes that take them from the slums of Five Points in lower Manhattan to the Fifth Avenue mansions of society's elite...
  • Scandal Above Stairs by Jennifer Ashley

    Scandal Above Stairs by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 16 ratings
    Priceless artwork has gone missing from the home of a wealthy baronet, and his wife stands to take the blame. When Kat's employer asks for help in clearing her friend's name, Kat trades her kitchen for the homes of Mayfair's wealthiest families. Soon antiques are disappearing not only from the extravagant households of connoisseurs and collectors, but from the illustrious British Museum...
  • The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker

    The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Known as a recluse, she avoids all public appearances. There’s a reason: she’s living under an assumed identity, having outrun a tragic past. But when a hungry journalist starts chasing her story, she’s confronted with whom she once was: Iris Chapel...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  paranormal  fantasy
  • The Haunting of a Duke by Chasity Bowlin

    The Haunting of a Duke by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    Facing danger from both sides of the grave, will two souls merge to find a love that conquers all? Communing with spirits has been both gift and curse to Emme Walters. Now it's made her a killer's target. Emme knows why the Dowager Duchess of Briarleigh invited her to a house party—to investigate whether the duke, Rhys Brammel, murdered his wife years ago...
  • Hour of the Witch: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian

    Hour of the Witch: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A young Puritan woman--faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul--plots her escape from a violent marriage in this riveting and propulsive historical thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant.Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors...
  • A Lady Out of Time by Caroline Hanson

    A Lady Out of Time by Caroline Hanson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sent back in time to Victorian England to stop the invention of a deadly weapon, Helen Foster knows the job looks too easy: All she has to do is go to an auction, buy the weapon plans, destroy them, and she’ll save millions of people back in her own time...
  • The Edge of Dark by Pamela Hartshorne

    The Edge of Dark by Pamela Hartshorne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jane believes in keeping her promises, but a deathbed vow sets her on a twisting path of deceit and joy that takes her from the dark secrets of Holmwood House in York to the sign of the golden lily in London's Mincing Lane. Getting what you want, Jane discovers, comes at a price...
  • The Black Stiletto: Black & White by Raymond Benson

    The Black Stiletto: Black & White by Raymond Benson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Black Stiletto is Back! The second book of the thrilling new series. It’s 1959 and Judy Cooper, the Black Stiletto, sets out to confront the heroin kingpin of Harlem when the teenage daughter of her beloved martial arts instructor becomes a prisoner in an uptown narcotics den… and she has fallen in love again, this time with an FBI agent who has standing orders to arrest her...
  • Eyes of the Predator: The Pickham County Murders by Glenn Trust

    Eyes of the Predator: The Pickham County Murders by Glenn Trust

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***For Mature Readers*** Eyes scanning, searching, the predator sits motionless in a parking lot. His next victim is only feet away. Within hours a backwater south Georgia county will be rocked by two seemingly unrelated murders that signal the arrival of a serial killer in the rural southland...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  paranormal  fantasy
  • Butterflies by K.J. Charles

    Butterflies by K.J. Charles

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Journalist Robert Caldwell is still smarting from his first encounter with ghost-hunter Simon Feximal. Their night in a haunted house was thrilling, but the aftermath leaves Robert hurt, disappointed, and resolved not to see Simon again. But just a few days later their paths cross once more, this time investigating a pair of mysterious deaths: two corpses shrouded in butterflies...
  • Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace

    Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 8 ratings
    A lady never reveals the true extent of her decay...Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence, helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction - until a gruesome murder during her best friend's engagement party pulls her from the shadows. With her specialist's knowledge and demure disposition, Hannah is requested to aid the investigation...
  • Desire Me by Robyn DeHart

    Desire Me by Robyn DeHart

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The Legend Hunters . . . The Men of Solomon's meet in secret, their very existence only a rumor among the best of Victorian society. They are treasure hunters, men of wealth and title, seekers of myths and legends. And no legend is as mystifying as the lost city of Atlantis . .
  • Dunmoor: A compelling journey in gothic suspense by London Clarke

    Dunmoor: A compelling journey in gothic suspense by London Clarke

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A lush gothic from bestselling author London Clarke set in the Regency era, Dunmoor is a tale of generational curses that threaten to destroy the most innocent and vulnerable.England, 1818. Lady Helena Winters hasn’t seen her husband in over a year—not since he disappeared without a trace...
  • The House of Lost Wives by Rebecca Hardy

    The House of Lost Wives by Rebecca Hardy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Secrets. Lies. And four missing wives. 1813. Lizzie's beloved older sister Esme is sold in marriage to the aging Lord Blountford to settle their father's debts. One year later, Esme is dead, and Lizzie is sent to take her place as Lord Blountford's next wife. Arriving at Ambletye Manor, Lizzie uncovers a twisted web of secrets, not least that she is to be the fifth mistress of this house...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  historical  paranormal  fantasy
  • A Midnight Requiem: The Ghostly Hour by Maeve Greyson, Celeste Barclay

    A Midnight Requiem: The Ghostly Hour by Maeve Greyson, Celeste Barclay

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When doors creak in darkened chambers and eerie sounds echo through the corridors. When the distant sounds of church bells signal the midnight hour — that is the time when spirits dwell, singing their spectral requiem for lost loves and beckoning the living with ghostly fingers… join us, join us…...
  • Deadlight Hall by Sarah Rayne

    Deadlight Hall by Sarah Rayne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A long-ago crime continues to menace the present in this spine-chilling tale of supernatural suspense. When Michael Flint is asked by a colleague to investigate a reputedly haunted house, he is intrigued. Leo Rosendale’s childhood was blighted by a macabre tragedy in the grim Deadlight Hall – a tragedy that occurred towards the end of World War II, involving a set of twins who vanished...
  • A Twist in Time by Julie McElwain

    A Twist in Time by Julie McElwain

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Former FBI agent Kendra Donovan’s attempts to return to the twenty-first century have failed, leaving her stuck at Aldridge Castle in 1815...
  • Death Comes to the School by Catherine Lloyd

    Death Comes to the School by Catherine Lloyd

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A trail of poison-pen letters lead to a dead teacher in this Regency-era mystery by the author of Death Comes to the Fair . Three years have passed since Major Sir Robert Kurland and Lucy Harrington, the rector’s daughter, became husband and wife. Having established a measure of contentment among the local gentry, the couple lately have found an unsettling distance grown between them...
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