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  A Terribly Strange Bed - A man...

  Wilkie Collins

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  Wilkie Collins was born on 8th January 1824 in Marylebone, London.  
   
  The family moved several times in his early years before, at 12, they travelled to France and Italy for 2 years where the sights and atmosphere made a deep and lasting impression on him. 
   
  He resumed his education at Mr Cole’s private boarding school in Highbury, Islington.  Here, he began his literary career under unusual circumstances: the school bully would give him no peace until he had been told a bedtime story.  This ‘little brute’ helped create one of England’s greatest writers.  
   
  On leaving school, in 1841, he became a clerk at a tea merchant before, 2 years later, publishing his first short story.  However, his first novel was rejected and remained so during his lifetime.  
   
  A brief stint at Lincoln’s Inn to please his father and to acquire a steady income was halted by his father’s death.  Collins then wrote and published his fathers’ memoirs.  He then completed his legal education though he would never practice.  
   
  In March 1851, he was introduced to Charles Dickens and there now started a period of sustained literary output and a remarkable lifelong friendship.  His stories were published in Dicken’s magazines, and he toured with Dicken’s theatrical before the two of them travelled to the Continent. 
   
  By the early 1860’s worrying signs of ill-health appeared with rheumatic gout.  As it worsened, he sought respite and cures in German spa towns and gave up writing to help his recuperation. 
   
  His personal life had become very complicated.  He was living with the widowed Caroline Graves and conducting an affair with a much younger Martha Rudd.  With the serialised release of ‘The Moonstone’ and vicious attacks of gout Caroline left him and married another.  Collins was now prescribed opium and was soon its lifelong dependent.  Martha bore him two children and with the return of a now divorced Caroline Graves he now divided his time between the two women. 
   
  In 1874 he set aside writing to tour North America on a reading tour. 
   
  Throughout his later years he continued to write and publish.  In all 30 novels, 14 plays, 60 short stories and over a 100 non-fiction essays as well as many more collaborations with Dickens. 
   
  In 1884 the Society of Authors elected him as it’s Vice-President. 
   
  Wilkie Collins died from a paralytic stroke on September 23rd, 1889, in London. He was 65.

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  Cashmere Conspiracy (A Hazel...

  Fiona Grace

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  This recording has been digitally produced by Fiona Grace, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. “A great story of murder, romance, new beginnings, love, friendships and a wonderful cascade of mystery.”
  --Amazon reviewer (regarding Murder in the Manor)
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  CASHMERE CONSPIRACY: A HAZEL STITCHWORTH COZY MYSTERY (BOOK #1) is the first book in a new cozy mystery series by Fiona Grace, #1 bestselling author of Murder in the Manor, which has over 10,000 five star reviews!
  
  From the cozy confines of her knitting boutique to the competitive world of exotic yarns, Hazel Stitchworth knits her way to the European Fiber Festival to source rare alpaca wool.  But when death strikes a beloved community member, she'll need all her pattern-solving skills to expose a murderer before the deadly design claims another victim…
  
  With the help of a charming amateur historian, Hazel must out of the role of shop proprietor and into the shoes of an amateur sleuth in order to clear her name, reveal a killer, and unravel a tightly-knotted mystery.
  
  Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of the Hazel Stitchworth series, a warm and inviting cozy mystery that seamlessly blends sharp wit and peculiar charm. With its blend of lighthearted comedy, heartfelt emotions, and unexpected plot turns, this series is sure to present an endearing new protagonist who will steal your heart and keep you engrossed until the early morning hours.
  
  Future books in the series are also available!
  
  "Very entertaining. I highly recommend this book to the permanent library of any reader that appreciates a very well written mystery, with some twists and an intelligent plot. You will not be disappointed. Excellent way to spend a cold weekend!"
  --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (regarding Murder in the Manor)
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  “The story line wasn't just a who done it, but had a story about her life and romance, including village life. Very entertaining.”
  --Amazon reviewer (regarding Murder in the Manor)
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   “It has endearing and sometimes quirky characters, a plot that keeps you reading and the right amount of romance. I can’t wait to start book two!”
  --Amazon reviewer (regarding Murder in the Manor)
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  “What a great story of murder, romance, new beginnings, love, friendships and a wonderful cascade of mystery.”
  --Amazon reviewer (regarding Murder in the Manor)
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  “This is a clean contemporary romance that you will find hard to put down!”
  --Amazon reviewer (regarding Always, Forever)
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  “A bit of romance and a very determined woman! I have read many of Fiona Grace's novels and loved every one of them—this was no exception. I am looking forward to reading the rest of this new series!”
  --Amazon reviewer (regarding Always, With You)
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  The Three Tools of Death -...

  G.K. Chesterton

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  Both by calling and conviction Father Brown knew better than most of us, that every man is dignified when he is dead. But even he felt a pang of incongruity when he was knocked up at daybreak and told that Sir Aaron Armstrong had been murdered. There was something absurd and unseemly about secret violence in connection with so entirely entertaining and popular a figure. For Sir Aaron Armstrong was entertaining to the point of being comic; and popular in such a manner as to be almost legendary.

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  The Writers Group Murders

  Michael A. Durney

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  How far would you go for love? 
  Macie Milbank is brilliant, beautiful...and dangerously unhinged. Haunted by a shattered past, her idea of love is obsession—and murder is the price of rejection. 
  When an aspiring writer becomes her latest fixation, the competition starts to disappear. But in a group full of storytellers, everyone has secrets, and Detective James must uncover the truth before Macie’s deadly masterpiece is complete. 
  A gripping thriller where passion turns deadly and every word could be a lie.

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  Buried Secrets

  Eunice Wilkie

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  A hidden note. 
  A buried skeleton. 
  A mystery years in the making. 
  When a child’s scribbled note is found in an attic in the Scottish Highlands, it points to a long-concealed crime. Soon after, a skeleton is unearthed at a nearby archaeological dig—and secrets buried for decades begin to surface. 
  Detective John Prentice prefers to work alone. He certainly doesn’t want help from Melanie Harris, a fearless podcaster with a nose for local stories and a knack for asking too many questions. But as evidence emerges, John and Melanie are pulled into a mystery that someone is still desperate to keep buried. 
  Buried Secrets is the first of the Strathavie Mysteries to feature this sharp, engaging duo in a gripping, Christian mystery that blends suspense with humour, friendship, and deeper insights on why God, and His Word, can be trusted—even when people can’t. 
  (You can also listen to the prequel of this series - Tangled Web)

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  New Adventures of Sherlock...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Nora Godwin

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  The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 1:
  Throughout many years, Dr. John H. Watson accompanied his friend and companion Sherlock Holmes in solving countless mysteries and crimes. Beginning in the 1880s and into the 20th century, Holmes consistently held his status as the world’s most brilliant and successful detective. His accomplishments were painstakingly chronicled by Watson in notes that relate the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Many of his accounts have been published and are well-known to a broad readership.
  There were times, however, when Watson would refrain from publishing his writings during his lifetime. He would do so for various reasons: At times, he would find himself forced to keep actual events and background information secret for moral, criminal, or financial reasons. Other times, he would want to either avoid potential political, legal, or social scandals or even damage to his own—or Holmes’s—reputation. Some of Watson’s accounts, however, were simply not published at the time because he was occupied with more important or urgent matters.
  The New Adventures brings to the public for the very first time some of Watson’s accounts of Sherlock Holmes cases previously kept under lock and key.

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