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  The Dagger Dance

  Elizabeth Bailey

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  1793, England 
   
   
   
  After a not-so-relaxing holiday in Tunbridge Wells, Lady Ottilia and Lord Francis Fanshawe have returned to their home with a young orphaned girl, Pertesia "Pretty" Brockhurst. 
   
   
   
  After losing both her parents in tragic circumstances, Pretty had been abandoned by the rest of her family and the childless Fanshawes have delighted in having her around. 
   
   
   
  But when her estranged grandfather turns up on their doorstep, Ottilia is worried she will lose the child she is growing so close to. 
   
   
   
  Meanwhile, their footman Hemp Roy has run into trouble. After becoming reacquainted with Dorote, a woman from his past life in Barbados, Hemp is desperate to help her when she is accused of murder in Bristol. 
   
   
   
  And who better to turn to than his trusted Lady Fan? 
   
   
   
  Can Lady Fan save Dorote—and Hemp? Will she unmask the killer? And what will happen to the poor orphan girl under her care?

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  The Bronze Crown - The Printer -...

  Stefano Vignaroli

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  Bernardino, the printer, is lying in desperate conditions in a room at Santa Lucia hospital. Cardinal Baldeschi died suddenly and left the city government vacant. Will young Lucia Baldeschi finally take the reins of government and prevent Jesi from falling into the hands of enemies who have always been pressing at his doors? Certainly, one cannot leave the government in the hands of four corrupt nobles or, worse, entrust it to the papal legate sent by the Pope. But Lucia is a woman, and it`s not easy to take on roles of power, traditionally handed down to men. And Andrea, her love, what happened to her, after escaping the scaffold and disappearing in the wake of the Mancino? Will he return to the scene to help his beloved? Or will controversial events lead him to other shores? And we also remember the parallel story, that of the scholar Lucia Balleani, our contemporary, who perhaps has finally met the love of hes life, the one who will take her by hand to discover with the reader new arcane secrets. Love and death, esotericism and logic, good and evil. These are just some of the ingredients that give rhythm to this new investigation, focused on the mysterious disappearance of the bronze crown, once placed above the rampant lion of the main palace of Jesi, that of the Signoria. Once again, the past is intertwined with the present, through the parallel vicissitudes of the protagonists of the present day and their namesake ancestors. A comely lady and haughty regent of the Aesina Republic, Lucia Baldeschi is divided between the obligations of the reason of state and love for the fugitive knight, the brave leader Andrea Franciolini. Between history and legend, the action ranges from the severe buildings and dark secret passages of an underground Jesi, to the open countryside of its Contado, populated by shepherds and monks during the day and animated by magical rites during moonlight.

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  Tournament of Shadows

  Andrew Watts, Dale M. Nelson

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  **FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ANDREW WATTS AND DALE M. NELSON**
   
  When a series of dangerous cyberattacks is traced back to Russia, a team of elite CIA operatives must uncover the true aggressor—before the kindling tension between two nuclear powers ignites World War III.
   
  The first strike destroys the Folsom Dam, bringing catastrophic flooding to the Sacramento area.
   
  The second threatens thousands of innocent lives across the Eastern Seaboard; exposing the vulnerability of America's infrastructure.
   
  The Firewall Spies are called into action to identify the source of the attacks before the entire country is thrown into chaos. The incursion is traced back to the Russian Federation, and a reciprocation from the US government risks escalating the conflict into a full-blown world war.
   
  As tensions climb higher, CIA Case Officer Colt McShane begins to suspect that someone else is behind the attacks—someone who wants to see America and Russia at war. Colt leads his team in a series of bold covert actions to uncover the truth, but time is quickly running out.
   
  There can be only one winner in this tournament of shadows…and with the fate of the whole world in their hands, losing is not an option.
   
  TOURNAMENT OF SHADOWS takes readers on a nonstop ride through the deadly world of high-tech espionage as global powers fight for dominance in the new digital age. This electrifying military techno-thriller is perfect for fans of Vince Flynn and Jason Matthews.

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  The Fells

  Cath Staincliffe

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  Yorkshire Dales, Summer 1997. Vicky Mott slips out the door of her remote cottage, and into the pale dawn light. She scrawls a note for her friends. 
   
  Gone to see the sunrise. V xxx 
   
  That’s the last anyone ever hears from twenty-year-old music lover Vicky. 
   
  Another victim of the Fellside Strangler? 
   
  That would make Vicky the fourth young woman to lose her life this summer. Snatched by a mysterious killer who stalks the fells . . . 
   
  But Vicky’s body is never found. 
   
  2019. A skeleton is discovered in a twisty network of caves beneath the fells. Detectives Leo Donovan and Shan Young think they can finally give Vicky’s mother the closure she so desperately wants. After twenty long years of questions and anguish. 
   
  But the deeper they dig into the past, the less certain they become. 
   
  And nothing can prepare them for the shocking truth  
   
  WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING ABOUT CATH STAINCLIFFE: 
   
  ‘A real knockout.’ Ian Rankin 
   
  ‘One of the best police procedurals I’ve read this year.’ Ann Cleeves 
   
  ‘A star in the firmament of British crime fiction.’ Big Issue 
   
  ‘Mercilessly exciting.’ Daily Telegraph 
   
  ‘Such a good writer.’ The Times 
   
  ‘Powerful, complex and utterly gripping.’ Sunday Mirror

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  Ghostly Dilemma

  E.M. Leya

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  Sometimes it's the little cases. 
   
   
   
  Not every minute of being a detective is spent solving huge murder cases. Sometimes it's the little ones that take up Detective Young's life, like the seventy-year-old cold case that suddenly fell into his lap or figuring out if a death was suicide or murder. 
   
   
   
  Lance spends most of his time working cases that no one hears about. The unattended deaths of those not under a doctor's care take up most of his time. Now that he can speak to ghosts, some of those cases are the most interesting. Work isn't all that is keeping him busy—his brother's girlfriend has shown up in need of his help, and he can't refuse when she'd helped him so much in the past. 
   
   
   
  Life is never boring for Lance and Angus, and though work pulls them both in different directions, they always seem to meet up somewhere in the middle of things. Sometimes it feels like if murder and death didn't bring them together, they'd never get time together at all.

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  Sherlock Holmes and the Japanese...

  William K. Stewart, F. E....

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  A treacherous murder rattles the Japanese embassy in London. The in-house secret service agent turns to Sherlock Holmes for help in quickly solving the case before it provokes a diplomatic crisis.

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