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2) At Freddie's
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"Freddie's" is the familiar name of the Temple Stage School, which supplies London's West End theaters with child actors for everything from Shakespeare to musicals to the Christmas pantomime. Its proprietress, Freddie Wentworth, is a formidable woman of unknown age and murky background who brings anyone she encounters under her spell - so common an occurrence that it is known as "being Freddied." At her school, we meet dour Pierce, a teacher hopelessly...
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Penelope Fitzgerald's novel, The Golden Child, combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mystery set in London's most refined institution-the museum. When the glittering treasure of ancient Garamantia, the golden child, is delivered to the museum, a web of intrigue tightens around its personnel, especially the hapless museum officer Waring Smith. While prowling the halls one night, Waring is nearly strangled. Two suspicious deaths ensue, and...
6) Web of lies
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After being smuggled out of Nigeria and abandoned in London Femi gets involved with a gang, and Sade tries to cope with her brother's problem while worrying about whether the family will be granted asylum.
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Wolves Chronicles volume 2
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An orphan arrives in London and becomes embroiled in a plot against the king.
10) Ash & bone
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Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's solitary life is disrupted when his estranged wife calls to tell him their seventeen-year-old daughter, Katherine, is running wild after being unbalanced by the abduction and rape Frank feels he should have prevented.
11) The Sherlockian
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When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary. But after a Doylean scholar is murdered, it is Harold who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer.
12) Banishing Verona
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Zeke, a beautiful but socially backward house painter, and Verona, a very pregnant radio host, share less than twenty-four hours together, but it is enough to sustain them when family and other complications pull them apart.
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Behavioral scientist Adam Burden brings Erasmus, a highly intelligent anthropoid ape, to his London home, believing the animal to be the closest thing yet to a human being and intending Erasmus to be the star of his new zoo, but the plan goes awry when Adam's wife Madelene and the ape fall in love.
14) Secret sins
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2023 EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE, SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD * APPLE BOOK OF THE MONTH SELECTION
"A high energy foray into cryptocurrency and government corruption."-First Clue
"This light and lively series launch introduces 75-year-old Ethel Fiona Crestwater...an elderly Nancy Drew: sure of herself and her convictions, and ready to bend a few rules to achieve her goal of seeing justice done." -Publishers Weekly
For fans of unexpected-yet-badass female...
15) Zom-B Angels
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Zom-B volume 4
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"Near to giving up hope in a London overrun by zombies, B meets The Angels, a group gathered to fight the living dead and the forces that introduced them"--
16) Dead men's boots
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Felix Castor series volume 3
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Author of The Girl With All the Gifts Mike Carey presents the third book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.
You might think that helping a friend's widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband's corpse would be the strangest thing on your To Do list. But life is rarely that simple for Felix Castor.
A brutal murder in the heart of London bears all the hallmarks of a long-dead American serial killer,...
17) Blind date
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Ex-police detective Elisabeth Kennedy, recovering from an assault with deadly acid, leaves her mother's seaside home and returns to London in an attempt to find her attacker.
19) Six days
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Cass and her brother Wilbur scavenge in the ruins of a future London seeking an artifact for their Russian masters, but the search takes on a new urgency after the arrival of Erin and Peyto, strangers from afar who claim to hold the key to locating the mysterious object.
20) Black plumes
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A classic from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. "One of the best books by a mystery novelist whose work is always of first rank." -The New York Times
Something is afoot at the Ivory Gallery in London. A string of suspicious incidents-a Kang-Tse vase broken, a specially commissioned catalog burned, and now a painting slashed-has young Frances Ivory on edge. She suspects that the instigator is her stepsister's husband, Robert Madrigal, but...
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