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Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; : 24 cm ; cm
Language
English
Description
"It is 1873, and Mycroft Holmes is in service to the Crown once again. A distant relative of Queen Victoria has been slain by the Fire Four Eleven killer, a serial murderer who leaves no mark upon his victims. Mycroft allows Sherlock to take the case, as he has been asked to find a missing person--the fiance of the woman he loves. As Sherlock travels the country on the hunt for a murderer, both he and Mycroft will discover that the greed of others...
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From early 19th century Brittany to London during the Second World War, five generations of witches fight the battles of their time, deciding how far they are willing to go to protect their family, their heritage, and ultimately, all of our futures. After Grand-mère Ursule gives her life to save her tribe, her magic seems to dies with her. Even so, her family keeps the Old Faith, practicing the spells and rites that have been handed from mother...
Author
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
Español
Description
"Agnes Martai is a young archaeologist who moves to London in search of a new opportunity. Shortly after arriving in the city as she strolls through the Temple district, she is surprised by a sudden downpour and takes refuge in a very special bookstore: Moonlight Books. Edward Livingstone is looking for an assistant, and in the time it takes Agnes to dry off and sit down for a cup of hot tea, they both realize that it is no accident that she is the...
Author
Series
Oakwing volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
180 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
After Rowan is mysteriously transformed into a tiny fairy, she is thrust into a world of fairy clans and talking robins where, she discovers, her long-missing mother is also trapped.
665) I see London
Author
Series
International school volume 1
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maggie Carpenter is a small-town Southern girl who's never been kissed. She's ready for a change..she accepts a scholarship to the International School in London, where she's suddenly mingling with the privileged offspring of diplomats and world leaders. When Maggie meets Hugh...she finds herself living the life she has always wanted...The only problem? There's someone else...Half French, half Lebanese and impossibly rich, Samir Khouri has made it...
666) Wormhole
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Gordon Kemp is a detective working in the cold case department in London...he has been assigned a murder investigation closed, unsolved, over eighty years ago. What he unearths will change history and threatens everything we know about what the powers that be have planned for Earth. The tragedy that befell the ship eighty years before is not what it seems and the past and the present are radically different to what everyone on Earth believes"--
667) The Jewelled Moth
Author
Series
Sinclair's mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Egmont
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
334 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Our heroines, Sophie and Lil, don cunning disguises, mingle in high society and munch many cucumber sandwiches to solve this curious case. Applaud their bravery as they follow a trail of terrible secrets that leads straight to London's most dangerous criminal mastermind, and put their own lives at risk. It will be the most thrilling event of the season.
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Bourbon Street Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Bourbon Street Books edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 476 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After she is cleared for the murder of her husband, Harriet Vane seeks solace in the country, but is soon attempting to solve another murder with her good friend Lord Peter Wimsey when a body washes up on shore and then mysteriously disappears.
669) The report: a novel
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"London, 1943 : Tube stations across London have been converted into bomb shelters. Night after night, while sirens wail in Bethnal Green, immigrants and East Enders alike sleep on the tracks and wait. But on March 3, as the crowd hurries down the staircase, something goes wrong, and 173 adults and children lose their lives in a deadly crush. When the devastated neighborhood demands an inquiry, the job falls to the young magistrate Laurence Dunne..."--Front...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a distinctive path through London. But when two...
671) Vile bodies: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
viii, 291 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the years following the First World War a new generation emerged, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of 1920s London, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercised their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In these pages a vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt...
Author
Series
Letras de bolsillo) volume 205
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
1a. edición.
Physical Desc
795 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
In nineteenth-century England, all is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell's pupil.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"England, 1970. On the one-year anniversary of the Harrington family's darkest night, their beautiful London home goes up in flames. Mrs. Harrington, the two children, and live-in nanny Rita relocate to Foxcote Manor, ostensibly to recuperate. But the creeping forest, where lost things have a way of coming back, is not as restful as it seems. When thirteen-year-old Hera discovers a baby girl abandoned just beyond their garden gate, this tiniest, most...
674) Longshadow
Author
Series
Regency faerie tales volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Orbit paperback edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 281 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The marriageable young ladies of London are dying mysteriously, and Abigail Wilder intends to discover why. Abigail's father, the Lord Sorcier of England, believes that a dark lord of faerie is involved...Thankfully, Abigail is not the only one investigating the terrible events. Mercy, a street rat and self-taught magician, insists on joining Abigail in unraveling the mystery. Mercy is unpredictable, and her magic is strange and foreboding--but the...
Author
Series
Works volume 7
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1895
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
676) Somebody at the door
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the winter of 1942, England lies cold and dark in the wartime blackout. One bleak evening, Councillor Grayling steps off the 6.12 from Euston, carrying £120 in cash, and oblivious to the fate that awaits him in the snow-covered suburbs"--Amazon.com.
677) Half a world away
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kerry Hayes is single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never hope to afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot ever forget her past. Noah Martineau is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a child, Noah always looks forward, never back. When Kerry reaches out to the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart...
678) Glover's mistake
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"David Pinner is a disaffected thirty-something college teacher who has replaced active participation in life with a snide, cynical presence online. James Glover, his younger, cooler roommate, is working in a Soho bar while he tries to figure out where he wants to go in life. Ruth Marks is a thrice-divorced woman in her late forties, a legendary American artist and former teacher of David's, newly arrived in town again. Whe David introduced Ruth to...
679) Kissed a sad goodbye
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Kincaid of Scotland Yard investigates the murder of a promiscuous woman whose tea warehouse in the dockland of London was coveted by a builder. Sex crime or business crime?
680) Magic for nothing
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As the youngest of the three Price children, Antimony is used to people not expecting much from her. Annie's expectations keep getting shattered. She didn't expect Verity to declare war on the Covenant of St. George on live television. She didn't expect the Covenant to take her sister's threat seriously. And she definitely didn't expect to be packed off to London to infiltrate the Covenant from the inside ..."--Publisher's description.
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