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The Winter Garden Mystery
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Cheshire, England circa 1923 finds Daisy Dalrymple, flapper-turned-reporter, on assignment to Occles Hall. She uncovers more than information when the dead body of a ...Read Review
Death At Wentwater Court
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Dunn introduces readers to the aristocratic young flapper/journalist Daisy Dalrymple in this novel, the first in her series set in the charming ...Read Review
A Spell Of Winter
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This novel of early 20th century English pastoral life is a compelling story of a brother and sister whose lives evolve from innocent ...Read Review
Death In Lacquer Red
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There are now three in the series, but this marks the first appearance of young household maid Hilda Johansson, and the first murder ...Read Review
Places In The Dark
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In small-town Maine, two brothers regard life as polar opposites. Their mother follows passion, embracing its call, and her favorite son does the ...Read Review
Stolen Away
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Nate Heller, Collins’ Chicago detective, is assigned to the Lindbergh abduction case after rescuing a child from a kidnapping attempt. Heller is forced ...Read Review
Angel In Black
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The most notorious unsolved murder in US history is probably that of the “Black Dahlia,” the young woman whose bisected nude body was ...Read Review
A Legacy
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The intelligent voice utters profound truths while unmasking secrets of the family and by extension, the German psyche. The persecution of cadet Johannes ...Read Review
When Stars Begin To Fall
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After leaving slavery behind, 1851 finds a devout Joseph Whitsun practicing medicine in a small, Negro community outside Philadelphia. Legally, Negroes cannot be doctors ...Read Review
The Dark Sun Rises
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For Joseph, a slave in 1834 South Carolina, the adage “a little learning is a dangerous thing” proves more than true. At the age ...Read Review
