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  The Daughter of Time

  Josephine Tey

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  The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England. It was the last book Tey published in her lifetime, shortly before her death. In 1990 it was voted number one in The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list compiled by the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA). 
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  Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant (a character who also appears in five other novels by the same author) is feeling bored while confined to bed in hospital with a broken leg. Marta Hallard, an actress friend of his, suggests he should amuse himself by researching a historical mystery. She brings him some pictures of historical characters, aware of Grant's interest in human faces. He becomes intrigued by a portrait of King Richard III. He prides himself on being able to read a person's character from his appearance, and King Richard seems to him a gentle, kind and wise man. Why is everyone so sure that he was a cruel murderer? 
  With the help of other friends and acquaintances, Grant investigates Richard's life and the case of the Princes in the Tower, testing out his theories on the doctors and nurses who attend to him. Grant spends weeks pondering historical information and documents with the help of Brent Carradine, a likable young American researcher working in the British Museum.[2] Using his detective's logic, he comes to the conclusion that the claim of Richard being a murderer is a fabrication of Tudor propaganda, as is the popular image of the King as a monstrous hunchback. 
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  Narrated by Nick Donovan 
  Author: Josephine Tey 
  Date of original publication: 1951 
  Genre: detective novel 
  Language : English 
  Version : unabridged, full/complete 
  Without subtitles

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  The Invisible Man and The War of...

  H. G. Wells

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  Two of the greatest science fiction classics of all time...in one collection!   H.G. Wells (1866 -1946) - the master of the genre - created his "scientific romances" and set the standard for futuristic literature that teemed with both social commentary and a prescient view of the world to come. Here, we present "The Invisible Man" and "The War of the Worlds," two of the most popular and thrilling science fiction novels ever created...together in one volume!  First, travel with a scientist named Griffin who develops an ingenious serum that can render people completely invisible. Taking it himself, Griffin begins a slow descent into insanity...and murder.  Then...follow the Narrator as he describes the unthinkable: a deadly and terrifying invasion of Earth by the inhabitants of Mars. The Martians enjoy the advantage of superior technological advances combined with a ruthless desire to conquer humanity and enslave them. Can mankind survive?   Enjoy these two classics by the "father of science fiction." This volume includes a brief biography of the author.

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  Skull River

  Pip Fioretti

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  In a fading gold town, the seams of violence run deep. 
   
  'I was like a man washed ashore on an island, half mad and only my warrant card and blood-soaked uniform to vouch for me. But I had to act as if I knew what the hell to do.' 
   
  In Autumn of 1912, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins arrives at his new post in the fading gold town of Colley, NSW. On his first day, he is ambushed by a hidden gunman, his junior officer is killed before his eyes, and he escapes back to town to find the police station burning to the ground. Someone has it in for the mounted troopers. 
  A traumatised veteran of the Boer War, and a stranger to Colley, Hawkins is deeply shaken and ill-equipped to solve the case. But with only green troopers and a drunken, incompetent detective available to hunt down the murderer, he is forced to take the lead. Soon he finds that Colley hides a lot more than gold beneath its surface, for anyone who knows where to dig. 
  In Skull River, Gus Hawkins returns for a gripping and immersive hunt through a small town at the edge of a troubled empire. With black humour, Fioretti weaves a story that's both a cracking murder mystery and a razor-sharp portrayal of a country on the verge of transformation.

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  When She Was Good

  Cynthia Luhrs

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  Hope is back and the truths she finds out may break her into a thousand pieces..  
  Hope's life has been anything but easy. 
  Hiding out in another country, she believes she's finally escaped the Organization and has a chance at a normal life.  
  Maybe this time she can finally start over, leave her violent past behind. But unbeknownst to her, someone close to her has a connection to her past. And when he finds out what she's done, the people she's killed in the name of justice, he won't stop until she pays. 
  Now there's nowhere to hide and no one to help her. Or is there? 
  Furious an amateur has escaped them not once but twice, the Organization sends one of their best to finish her off once and for all. When they take the only person she cares about, Hope won't stop until every single one of them pays no matter the cost. 
  There’s nowhere to hide, she’s out of options, and in a shocking twist, Hope finds out information that rocks her world and everything she thought she knew.

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  Doggone Bones

  Carolyn Haines

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  The next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. 
    
  After a dog belonging to local pet activist Tilly Lawson is snatched right out of her backyard in Sunflower County, MS, Sarah Booth and the Delaney Detective Agency are up to their ears in concerned pet owners. Could Tilly's work liberating abused animals have come back to bite her, or was this a random act of dognapping? 
    
  Delaney Detective Agency has their work cut out for them, especially as a troublesome online pet detective agency tries nosing their way into the investigation. But as Sarah Booth and Tinkie start to sink their teeth into the mystery, they discover there's much more at play than they thought: neighborhood rivalries, questionable dog breeders, and an illegal dogfighting operation. 
    
  As their digging churns up dangerous attention—and with their own beloved dogs, Sweetie Pie and Chablis, possibly next in line to be dognapped—Sarah Booth and Tinkie are in a race against time to track down the thieves and return the missing pets home. 
    
  "Pet lovers will root for the detectives as they fight for animal rights while solving a series of human crimes."—Kirkus Reviews

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  Fields' Guide to Pharaohs

  Julie Mulhern

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  Poppy Fields, Hollywood IT girl and super-secret spy, travels to Egypt looking for answers. 
   
   
   
  But amidst assassination attempts, money launderers, and missing treasure, answers are hard to come by. 
   
   
   
  Poppy must trust new allies, forgive old wrongs, and find a forgotten pharaoh or the next tomb she enters may be her own.

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