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Field Gray (Bernie Gunther, #7)

by Philip Kerr

Published 1 April 2011
Adult

This Edgar® Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling Bernie Gunther series reveals the cynical, hard-boiled detective’s harrowing history as an unwilling SS officer in World War 2.  During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin's Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detective—until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him into the SS's field gray uniform and the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front. Spanning twent...


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A Strong Hand to Hold

by Anne Bennett

Published 4 November 1999
Adult

When ARP warden Jenny O Leary opens a telegram one morning in 1940, grief threatens to engulf her. Her brother has been tragically killed in action. And it s the very same day that she is to save a girl whose loss is far greater than her own...Linda Prosser is just twelve years old when a bomb explosion instantly kills her family and leaves her crushed beneath a mass of debris. It s Jenny who rescues a girl who has nothing left in the world and who offers not just a strong hand to hold in the da...


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Bones in London (Golden Classics, #95) (Bones, #3)

by Edgar Wallace

Published 30 June 2001
Adult

Bones is back in the second story of The Lieutenant Bones series. A mischievous businessman, Bones seems to have every financial schemer in London coming after him, but somehow he always comes out on top. Humor and romance follow Bones as well, as he makes his way through the underworld of London moneymakers.


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The Gully of Bluemansdyke and Other Stories

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Published 4 January 2010
Adult


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The True Confessions of a London Spy

by Katherine Cowley

Published 1 March 2022
Adult


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Alchemy (Alchemy, #1)

by Chris James

Published 16 February 2015
Adult


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The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper

by Alan Scarfe

Published 11 May 2021
Adult

A new, powerful, evocative, brilliantly written excursion into the literature and lore of Ripperology'! "The author explores the internal life and plumbs the abyss of sickness, describing in detail those aspects of Victorian London and the baser instincts of capitalism that incited him, and indeed everything that has made Jack the Ripper the unequaled incubus of horror and the imaginings that still inhabit our modern nightmares. The author has chosen, from all the possible suspects, in order to...


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The Sheer Nerve

by Rob Lofthouse

Published 28 May 2018
Adult


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Prince (John Shakespeare) (John Shakespeare Mystery, #3)

by Rory Clements

Published 12 May 2011
Adult

*****Part of the bestselling John Shakespeare series of Tudor spy thrillers from Rory Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award*****'[Clements] does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times**********Spring 1593. England is a powder keg of rumour and fear. Plague rages, famine is rife, the ageing Queen's couriers scheme: Elizabeth's Golden Age is truly tarnished. Meanwhile Spain watches and waits - and plots.Into this turmoil a small cart clatte...


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The Serpent Sword (The Bernicia Chronicles, #1)

by Matthew Harffy

Published 1 April 2015
Adult

'HISTORICAL FICTION DOESN'T GET MUCH BETTER THAN THIS' ANGUS DONALD AD 633 Beobrand is a young man with a shadowy past. As an outsider in the kingdom of Bernicia, he is compelled to join his brother, Octa, as a warrior in the household of King Edwin. He must learn to fight with sword and shield to defend the war-ravaged kingdoms of Northumbria. In a period of great upheaval for Dark Age Britain, all he finds is death and war. Men and women strive to seize control of their destinies in a time...


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Night Action (Ulverscroft Large Print) (Coronet Books)

by Alan Evans

Published 1 January 1989
Adult

David Brent is to lead an SOE team on a daring raid to occupied France but with two members having reason to harm him, E-boats cruising the bay, a crack German assault company and the German Colonel's daughter with her Mauser pistol, he has a lot to contend with. Alan Evans has already published 12 novels, including "Thunder at Dawn", "Ship of Force", "Seek out and Destroy" and "Eagle at Taranto"..


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Train's Trust

by Max Brand

Published 21 October 2011
Adult

Longtime thief and card sharp Steven Train is sought out by another crook, John Rainier, with a proposal. Rainier saved rich rancher Patrick Comstock from serious injury and was rewarded with an easy job. Now Comstock has asked Ranier to help find an honest man skilled with firearms for a special mission. Years ago, Comstock unintentionally benefited from bad financial advice he gave to a friend, and wants to find him to pay it back. Rainier wants Train to apply for the job -- on the understandi...


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Crude Deception

by MR Gordon Zuckerman

Published 15 January 2017
Adult


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The Running Kind (Hector Lassiter, #6)

by Craig McDonald

Published 8 December 2014
Adult


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Launching of Roger Brook (Roger Brook)

by Dennis Wheatley

Published 28 June 1996
Adult


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Luke Jensen, Bounty Hunter Bloody Sunday

by William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone

Published 1 January 2014
Adult


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The File

by Gary Born

Published 28 March 2023
Adult

Sara West is a beautiful 28 year old graduate student on a scientific expedition in Africa—who stumbles upon a cache of WWII Nazi files in the wreck of a German bomber hidden in the jungle. The files reveal the location of a multi-billion dollar war-chest, secretly deposited by the Nazis in numbered Swiss bank accounts at the end of WWII. The story that follows is a nail-biting thriller, with a captivating heroine who is pursued across Africa, the Middle East, and Europe by relentless Russian an...


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Hazardous Spirits

by Anbara Salam

Published 12 October 2023
Adult

'An exquisitely written work of Caledonian gothic' Francine Toon, author of Pine'A darkly sparkling jewel of a book' Kirsty Logan, author of Now She is WitchEdinburgh, 1923.Evelyn Hazard is a young woman living a comfortable and unremarkable middle-class life. One day, her quiet existence is shattered when her steady, reliable husband Robert makes a startling announcement: he can communicate with the dead.As the couple are pulled into the spiritualist movement that emerged following the mass dea...


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The Mysterium (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, #17)

by Paul Doherty

Published 29 April 2010
Adult

In Paul Doherty's brilliant new novel, will Hugh Corbett find the deadly assassin stalking London's streets? February 1304, and London is in crisis. A succession of brutal murders shocks the city as it comes to terms with the fall from power of Walter Evesham, Chief Justice in the Court of the King's Bench. Accused of bribery and corruption, Evesham has sought sanctuary to atone for his sins. When Evesham is discovered dead in his cell at the Abbey of Sion though, it appears that the Mysterium,...


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For Want of a Shilling (Moana Rangitira, #2)

by Paul W. Feenstra

Published 21 January 2018
Adult


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Loreticus (Lost Emperor Trilogy, #1)

by J B Lucas

Published 24 August 2017
Adult


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The Seventh Cross (Voices of resistance) (Verba Mundi (Paperback))

by Anna Seghers

Published 23 April 1987
Adult

A revelatory World War II novel about a German prisoner of war fleeing for the border and encountering a variety of Germans, good and bad and indifferent, along his way. Now available in a new English translation. The Seventh Cross is one of the most powerful, popular, and influential novels of the twentieth century, a hair raising thriller that helped to alert the world to the grim realities of Nazi Germany and that is no less exciting today than when it was first published in 1942. Seven p...


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Prowler, the Mad Gasser of Mattoon

by Jason Lee Brown

Published 31 August 2014
Adult


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The Game (Mary Russell Mystery, #7)

by Laurie R King

Published 1 January 2004
Adult

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes have been involved in numerous adventures and solved many mysteries. This book in the series sees Russell and Holmes in India where they meet Kipling's Kim as an adult.


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