Deanna Raybourn
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Veronica Speedwell mystery volume 8
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"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...
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" Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian colleague Stoker are asked by Lady Wellingtonia Beauclerk to help with a potential scandal so explosive it threatens to rock the monarchy. Prince Albert Victor is a regular visitor to the most exclusive private club in London, known as the Club de l'Etoile, and the proprietress, Madame Aurore, has received an expensive gift that can be traced back to the prince. Lady Wellie would like Veronica and Stoker...
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387 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Partners now in marriage and in trade, Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane have finally returned from abroad to set up housekeeping in London. But merging their respective collections of gadgets, pets and servants leaves little room for the harried newlyweds themselves, let alone Brisbane's private enquiry business. Among the more unlikely clients: Julia's very proper brother, Lord Bellmont, who swears Brisbane to secrecy about his case. Not about to...
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Un marido, una familia, una vida hogareña: todo ello aterra a Theodora Lestrange
Theodora deja atrás Edimburgo, y a un pretendiente desilusionado, con una pequeña herencia y sus tres únicos vestidos. Pone rumbo a Rumanía, un lugar donde aún se cuentan entre susurros historias de vampiros, para visitar a una vieja amiga y escribir el libro con el que va a lograr ser una mujer independiente de verdad.
El castillo situado en los Cárpatos al que...
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New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn takes readers into Africa during the height of British colonialism, to meet a man as wild as the land he loves in this prequel novella...
Kenya, 1918
Ryder White is Canadian by birth but African by choice. He is more at home in the wilds of the savannah, shooting and sleeping his way across the continent, than amongst the hedonistic colonists of Kenyan society.
In a landscape where one false...
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Pese a que Nicholas Brisbane le había advertido que se mantuviera lejos de él, lady Julia Grey apareció en la finca que el distante y atractivo detective había heredado en Yorkshire. Así, ambos se vieron obligados a compartir aquella casona en ruinas con las últimas descendientes de una familia de ilustre linaje, que había mantenido bien ocultos sus secretos. Después de haber perdido la fortuna familiar y de haber caído en el olvido social,...
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Para lady Julia Grey y Nicholas Brisbane, la luna de miel había terminado... pero la aventura acababa de comenzar.
Ante los ruegos de la excéntrica familia de Julia, los dos se marcharon a la India para ayudar a una vieja amiga, Jane Cavendish. Jane estaba preocupada por el inminente nacimiento de su hijo, y angustiada por descubrir la verdad sobre la muerte de su marido. ¿Había sido asesinado por sus propiedades?
En aquel lugar exótico y remoto,...
9) Silent Night
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Tis the season for an investigation in this Victorian mystery fan-favorite Lady Julia Grey Christmas novella
After a year of marriage-and numerous adventures-Lady Julia and Brisbane hope for a quiet, intimate Christmas together-until they find themselves at her father's ancestral estate, Bellmont Abbey, with her eccentric family and a menagerie of animals.
Nevertheless, Julia looks forward to a lively family gathering-but amongst the celebrations,...