Clare Wille
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When her father has a crisis of conscious, Margaret Hale's life is turned upside down. Because her parents decide to move away from southern London, Margaret must leave behind the tranquil, rural life she's always known to settle in an industrial town called Milton. Though she does her best to assimilate, Margaret cannot help but feel trapped and hopeless in Milton, as she witnesses the brutal effects industrialization has on the environment and the...
2) Cranford
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Step into the charming world of "Cranford" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. This delightful novel invites you to a quaint English village, where the lives of its eccentric and endearing inhabitants are interwoven in a tapestry of humor, heartwarming moments, and social observations.
Set in the early 19th century, the narrative unfolds through the eyes of Mary Smith, an outsider welcomed into the close-knit community. As she navigates the idiosyncrasies...
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In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened to pioneer settlement. The letters that make up this volume were first published in 1879. They tell of magnificent, unspoiled landscapes and abundant wildlife, of encounters with rattlesnakes,...
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Posie Parker mystery volume 2
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Private Detective Posie Parker is dreaming of a lazy summer ... But following the success of the Maharajah diamond case, she finds herself more in demand than ever. Asked to locate a world-famous explorer who has gone missing after a string of catastrophic events, Posie finds herself in murky waters yet again: an aristocratic family torn apart by hatred, a bizarre murder at an English country house, and a cryptic clue left behind by the explorer which...
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"This is a classic action-packed country house mystery, which sees Posie accompany the maverick Scotland Yard Detective, Inspector Richard Lovelace, to a glittering New Year Eve party at an English stately home, packed full of glamorous guests. Posie and the Inspector are working deep undercover on a dangerous mission ... but trouble is brewing from many quarters. Oh, and to make matters even simpler, there a murderer on the loose ... With a blizzard...
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"When Posie clears a space in her diary to visit the University town of Cambridge on a personal mission, she finds more than she bargained for, as the past seems to confront her at every turn. She finds herself unwittingly taking on a dangerous new case in which she must try and find out what happened to Dr. William Winter, a brilliant Cambridge doctor who disappeared five years earlier in the chaos of war. But in doing so, Posie is forced to confront...
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"A Winter Wedding, Venice, 1923. Posie Parker, London's premier female Private Detective, is getting married ... But on arrival in Venice, Posie finds she is walking into a nightmare: her lodgings on the Grand Canal are consumed by fire, her famous fiancé is preoccupied, and most bizarrely of all, her hostess, the Countess Romagnoli, confesses she has a stalker and fears for her life. Tasked with protecting the Countess, Posie investigates the other...
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When Posie Parker's childhood friend is robbed of the priceless Maharajah diamond and becomes a suspect in a cold-blooded murder case, budding detective Posie vows she will clear his name. Aided by her seriously gorgeous assistant Len, Posie soon realizes things are not quite as they seem, and the darkly-glamorous world of London's theatre and glittering nightclubs prove far more dangerous than she ever could have imagined.
9) Forlorn Hope
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A grand error lost her to him once. Given a second chance, will one unwise mistake lose her to him forever?
Captain Geoffrey Mantell has tried to be the friend Miss Emily Chandry never had, but it is a long time before he realizes she is much more to him than a mere friend. By the time he tries to profess his love he is too late-Emily has married out of desperation, and to a grasping, greedy businessman.
Seeing her unhappiness, Geoffrey is determined...
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A ruined manor. A lost heir. A grumpy caretaker. And a young lady ready to stake her fortune that they are all worth redeeming.
Lonely and yearning for excitement, Miss Lenora Breckinridge stumbles upon an abandoned mansion near her new home and is mesmerized by the romantic possibilities. One taste of its sordid history and she is determined to be the heroine and redeem the manor, righting all its past wrongs. It couldn't be simpler; all she must...
11) A Knowing One
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An uneasy friendship turns into a dangerous game when the love of a woman is on the line.
Tom Breckinridge has been falling in love with Diana Marshall for the past year, but just when has decided to come to the point, a rival has come out of the woodwork: Reginald Popplewell, a childhood playmate of Diana's, and now heir to a viscountcy! Diana's father much prefers Reginald, but Tom believes Reginald has something to hide.
When Tom shares his doubts...
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Amyas Lyle, London's top young lawyer, has been found with his head in a box of poisoned saltwater. Following a trail of strange notes, all of which speak of the sea, and saltwater, Posie travels from London to Whitley Bay. But nothing can prepare her for what she finds there.
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A glamorous perfume launch which reeks of nothing but death....
London, Midsummer, 1925.
London is in bloom and the sun is shining. But trouble is lurking around the corner.... Posie Parker has been summoned to Chelsea, to the House of Sinne, the fashionable London perfume house.
Anouk Sinne, the most brilliant perfumier of her age, has been receiving blackmail demands, and asks Posie to investigate. But is blackmail just the tip of the iceberg?...
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Under the Tuscan sun, ice-creams melt and dark secrets unravel…
March, 1925
Pregnant, bored, and longing for an adventure, Posie Parker accepts a rather last-minute Wedding Invitation from an old friend who is getting married out in the gorgeous town of San Gimignano, Tuscany.
But what Posie -and her husband, Richard Lovelace- arrive into is not a blissfully happy wedding party at all. It's a chaotic mix of mistrust, unfaithful fiancés, bizarre...
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A magic show with death as the star guest...
A snow-bound and freezing London, December 1925
Posie Parker, London's premier female Private Detective, is only just back in town when she receives an unexpected visitor.
The mysterious magician, Count Olli Onneri, pupil of the legendary American magician Harry Houdini, invites Posie to take part in the opening night of his show at the nearby Holborn Empire. She will be helping him with a 'magic mirror'...
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What if everything you hold dear is blown apart by one fateful meeting?
Valentine's Day, 1926
When Posie Parker, London's premier female Detective, accidentally runs into an old family acquaintance, she is persuaded to leave town immediately and return to the place of her childhood roots - the beautiful and bleak Norfolk coast - to investigate a closed-room murder mystery which local police believe has a foregone conclusion.
But have the police...
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Sometimes the truth is as slippery as a mermaid... December, 1925 A dark, smog-filled London doesn't seem very Christmassy, or exciting, but then Posie Parker, London's premier female Private Detective receives an urgent call from one of her oldest friends; Rufus, Earl of Cardigeon. Summoned to 'The Mermaid', an ancient hotel in Rye, on the Sussex Coast, in the heart of smuggling country, Posie, together with her husband, Richard, finds her friend...
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What if the City of Light holds nothing but darkness?
January, 1926
Invited aboard the glamourous Night Train to Paris, and tasked with investigating the disappearance of her best friend, Dolly Cardigeon, Posie Parker suddenly finds herself right in the middle of a murder!
Controversial society beauty, Lady Caroline Greenlow, is on her way to Paris Fashion Week. She always has a habit of rubbing people up the wrong way, but things take a dreadful...
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Posie Parker Mystery Box Set: Novellas 9 - 10 Marriage is Murder? (Book 9) Posie Parker is finally getting married! The date is Saturday 6th December, 1924. It's snowing heavily outside, but in the little white Swiss Church in London, packed to the rafters with beautifully-dressed guests, everything is just right. All is going to plan. Or is it? Don't miss this short story. Goes perfectly with a glass of something sparkling! Murder in the London Lights...
20) Cotillion
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The bestselling Queen of Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer, brings her signature wit and humor to this fake engagement love story, with charming results.
A most unusual hero
Freddy is immensely rich, of course, and not bad-looking, but he's mild-mannered, a bit hapless—not anything like his virile, handsome, rakish cousin Jack...
A heroine in a difficult situation
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