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1) A dying fall
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2013 | 1st U.S. ed. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 392 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Mystery Griffiths, E Main Mystery Griffiths, E |
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After an old university friend and fellow archaeologist's murdered, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Lancashire to examine the bones he found, which reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur, and discovers a campus living in fear of a sinister right-wing group called the White Hand.
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p1998 | Recorded Books | 10 sound discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Southside AV CD spoken Fiction Michaels, B |
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1997 | 1st ed. | Thorndike Press | 519 p.; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Large Type Fiction Michaels, B |
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For years, Heather Tradescant had dreamed of the journey she and her father would take to England--a pilgrimage to the great gardens of history.
Now that her father is dead, Heather is determined to fulfill his dreams. Unfortunately, her request to see the fabled 17th-century garden of Troytan House is denied by the owner. Though unwelcome, she braves the walls of briars and reaches the Victorian manor house beyond. She senses a strange mission...
3) Dead end
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2019. | First world edition. | Severn House Publishers Ltd | 232 pages ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Mystery Spencer, S |
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"He was going to have to terminate Monika, he decided. It was a pity, but there it was... The body has lain buried for years, and has no face and no fingertips. Monika Paniatowski's team have no real leads, but when they discuss the case at her hospital bedside - where she lies paralysed - Monika begins to see possible links with a case she closed four years earlier. Are the two cases connected? Did the first murder make the second almost inevitable?...
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2010 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 333 p. : map ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Fiction Sharratt, M |
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Daughters of the Witching Hill brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching account of a family sustained by love as they try to survive the hysteria of a witch-hunt. Bess Southerns, an impoverished widow living in Pendle Forest, is haunted by visions and gains a reputation as a cunning woman. Drawing on the Catholic folk magic of her youth, Bess heals the sick and foretells the future. As she ages, she instructs her granddaughter, Alizon, in her...
5) Rose
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c1996 | 1st trade ed. | Random House | 364 p. : maps ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Fiction Smith, M Main Fiction Smith, M |
6) Dark waters
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2013. | First U.S. Edition. | Minotaur Books | 369 pages : map ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Blake, R |
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Investigating the drowning death of his wife's uncle against a backdrop of a contentious election, eighteenth-century coroner Titus Cragg receives information that suggests foul play, a situation that is complicated by the demise of a politically connected farmer.
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2012 | 1st U.S. ed. | Minotaur Books | 359 p. ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Blake, R Southside Mystery Blake, R |
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Lancashire, England, 1740. A grim discovery has been made: a squire's wife, Dolores Brockletower, lies in the woods above her home at Garlick Hall, her throat brutally slashed. Called to the scene, Coroner Titus Cragg finds the Brockletower household awash with rumor and suspicion. He enlists the help of his astute young friend, doctor Luke Fidelis, to throw light on the case.
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2013 | Severn House | 217 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Southside Fiction Jacobs, A |
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"When Emily Mattison falls victim to a near-fatal accident shortly after receiving an unexpected inheritance from a distant cousin, her ruthless nephew George seizes the opportunity to take control of his aunt's assets. It's only when Emily reaches The Drover's Hope, the former pub on the edge of the Lancashire moors, bequeathed to her by her late cousin Penelope, that she begins to feel safe. She also discovers that love can be found in the most...
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2015. | First U.S. edition. | Minotaur Books | 344 pages : map ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Blake, R |
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The year is 1742, and the people of Preston are looking forward to their ancient once-every-twenty-years festival of merriment and excess, the Preston Guild. But the prospect darkens as the town plunges into a financial crisis caused by the death of pawnbroker and would-be banker Philip Pimbo, shot behind the locked door of his office. Is it suicide? Coroner Titus Cragg suspects so, but Dr Luke Fidelis disagrees. To untangle the truth Cragg must dig...
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2013. | First world edition. | Severn House | 218 pages ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Southside Fiction Jacobs, A |
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Receiving an inheritance allows Libby the opportunity to escape from her abusive marriage, but her controlling husband will not let her escape easily; meanwhile, Emily seeks to make contact with the daughter she lost years earlier.
11) Skin and bone
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2016. | First U.S. edition. | Minotaur Books | 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Blake, R |
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"It's 1743, and the tanners of Preston are a pariah community, plying their unwholesome trade beside a stretch of riverside marsh where many Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock. When the body of a newborn child is found in one of their tanning pits, Cragg's inquiry falls foul of a cabal of merchants dead set on modernizing the town's economy and regarding the despised tanners -- and Cragg's apparent championship of them -- as obstacles...
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[2013] | Grove Press | ix, 224 pages ; 19 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Fiction Winterson, J Southside Fiction Winterson, J |
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Alice Nutter fights for justice when a group of Pendle women are accused of witchcraft during the reign of England's James I, when being Catholic is considered an act of treason and the Latin High Mass is comparable to the satanic Black Mass.
13) To kill a wife
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1999 | Severn House | 220 p. ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Gregson J |
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[2010] | BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd | 2 videodiscs (ca. 175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD In |
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"Set in a fictional Lancashire town in 1929, In loving memory depicts the hilarious events that occur in an undertaker's business when the owner dies, leaving his sensible widow Ivy to carry on with the help of her naïve and clumsy nephew, Billy. Whether dealing with stray coffins, local busybodies, dishonest rivals or faulty hearses, Ivy always manages to cope, while Billy's best intentions usually end in laughable disaster."--Container.
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2002 | Severn House | 218 p. ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Gregson, J |
16) A necessary end
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2014. | First world edition. | Severn House | 216 pages ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Gregson, J |
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Alfred Norbury is a learned man. He is never afraid to display his erudition, but he is generous in his encouragement of younger people. The people who assemble around him to form a reading club are also learned. Some of them are simply well-read, whilst others have formal qualifications which rival those of Norbury. But learning is no protection against violence. Murder arrives suddenly, brutally and unexpectedly. The investigation led by Detective...
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