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  The Adventure of the Noble...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding. The servants had prevented an old love interest of his from forcing her way into the wedding breakfast, Hatty had been seen in whispered conversation with her maid, and Inspector Lestrade arrives with the news that Hatty's wedding dress and ring have been found floating in the Serpentine. Holmes quickly solves the mystery, locating Hatty at a hotel with a mysterious, "common-looking" man who had picked up her dropped bouquet after the ceremony. The man turns out to be Hatty's husband Frank, whom she had thought dead in America, and who had managed to locate her only moments before she was to marry Lord St. Simon. Frank and Hatty had just determined to go to Lord St. Simon in order to explain the situation when Holmes found them.

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  The Missing Italian Girl

  Barbara Corrado Pope

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  On a sultry night in June 1897, a young Russian by the name of Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov and two young women transport a dead man through the narrow streets of a working class neighborhood in northeastern Paris. They throw the body into the canal and the girls flee to the Latin Quarter to hide with one of the Russian's anarchist "comrades." They do not realize they, too, are being watched. Their subsequent disappearance and the violent acts that follow will set Clarie Martin, a teacher and mother of a toddler, and her husband, magistrate Bernard Martin, on a dangerous quest to rescue them from a vicious killer.

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  Tales From The Village

  Quentin Drummond Anderson

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  TALES FROM THE VILLAGEby Quentin Drummond Anderson 
  POWER. TRADITION. SECRETS. CHANGE. 
  In Trenton Stable, a picturesque English village, centuries of history and hidden truths lie beneath the surface. Behind manicured hedges, a battle unfolds between preservation and progress. 
  Edward Sherston, eighth-generation squire, faces unprecedented challenges to his ordered world. Through eleven interconnected stories, witness his evolution as power shifts beneath his feet. 
  From "The Family Pew," where a ghostly presence signals unfinished business, to "The Carol's Echo," where a newcomer reveals buried connections, Anderson explores community power with precision. 
  Supernatural elements embody suppressed histories: an amber brooch granting longevity, impossible roses, ancient boundary stones revealed during a hunt. 
  When traditions are challenged—from carnival queen selection to development plans—Edward must decide if stewardship means control or embracing change. 
  Anderson's crystalline prose captures both village details and psychological complexities. His dialogue brilliantly conveys the English art of saying one thing while meaning another. 
  The village emerges as the most compelling character—a living entity with an identity beyond any individual's control. 
  For readers of rural British fiction, these stories examine how community structures are maintained, challenged, and transformed, bringing contemporary sensibility to countryside novels. 
  These tales will haunt—not merely through supernatural elements, but through insights into how power shapes lives and how established hierarchies contain seeds of transformation. 
  Available March 2025 from The Writers Collective Hardcover | eBook | Audiobook

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  The Crimson Harvest - DI Winter...

  Cheryl Rees-Price

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  A rural Welsh community is beset by a series of cruel murders... 
   
  Putting his wedding plans on hold, Detective Winter Meadows resolves to unmask the serial killer on his patch. 
   
  The only connection between the victims is the stick dolls left by their bodies. That and the fact they don’t seem to have been particularly popular. 
   
  People are ruffled. Scared. Meadows must isolate the killer fast but the evidence is brittle. 
   
  The key to unravelling the mystery is in the stone church, in the creaking homes, and in the slowly thawing fields. 
   
  Only a detective who truly knows his world can unlock the identity of the killer.

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  Rise to the Fly - DI Winter...

  Cheryl Rees-Price

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  Will the police or a devious killer win this battle of wits? 
   
  A quiet corner of Wales becomes the centre of a murder investigation when the bodies of a retired couple are found near the shore of a reservoir. 
   
  Police try to establish the methods and motives of their attacker by careful examination of the crime scene. And, bizarrely, fishing flies are found in the victims’ mouths. 
   
  The investigation into people connected to the area begins to focus on a family farm. But how were the victims connected to it? 
   
  When Madog, an elderly member of the small community disappears, the detectives become pretty sure someone on the farm is responsible. But who? And why? 
   
  Will finding Madog lead them to the killer? Or have the police themselves fallen into a clever trap? 
   
  RISE TO THE FLY is the sixth standalone title in a bestselling series of atmospheric mysteries set in mid-Wales.

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  The Black Church - A Short Story

  J.F. Penn

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  A week alone in Iceland's most isolated church. A grief too heavy to carry. An ancient darkness stirring beneath.  
  Pastor David Thornwell has lost his wife, his faith, and any reason to keep preaching. When he's offered a week-long silent retreat at the Black Church of Búðir — a tar-blackened chapel on Iceland's remote Snæfellsnes Peninsula — he accepts, hoping the vast silence of winter will either restore his shattered belief or give him permission to let go entirely.  
  But the Black Church holds secrets older than Christianity.  
  Strange journals left by previous caretakers describe lights that pool where they shouldn't, voices beneath the foundations, and an archaeological dig that was abandoned without explanation. Claw marks scar the heavy wooden door. And as the aurora borealis blazes across consecutive nights, David begins to understand that this church was not built to celebrate God's presence — but to keep vigil against something far more ancient.  
  With the ground cracking beneath the altar and shadows advancing across the frozen lava field, David must make an impossible choice: surrender to the vast indifference of deep time, or ring the bell — not as an act of faith, but as a single, defiant act of human will.  
  Set against the real landscape of Iceland's Snæfellsnes Peninsula — the inspiration for Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth — The Black Church is a story of grief, geological terror, and the thin line between worship and containment.  
  For readers who love the atmospheric dread of M.R. James, the cosmic scope of H.P. Lovecraft, and the emotional weight of literary horror.First published as part of The Buried and the Drowned: A Short Story Collection by J.F. Penn

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