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Detective Inspector Alan Banks' latest case involving the murder of a freelance music journalist takes him back more than 30 years, and into the unsolved murder of a young woman found wrapped in a sleeping bag after an outdoor rock concert in 1969 where the up-and-coming psychedelic band, The Mad Hatters was playing. The journalist had been working on a feature story about the now aging rock superstar band. What was the connection, and what hornets'...
24) A share in death
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After wrapping up an exhausting murder case, Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard needs a holiday. A week in the Yorkshire Moors at Followdale House, a timeshare hotel, seems an ideal chance for some peace and tranquility. But his holiday comes to an abrupt end on day two, when a dead body is found floating naked in the hotel pool.
25) The professor
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The Professor (1857) is English writer Charlotte Brontë's first novel. Rejected by several publishing houses, Brontë shelved the novel in order to write her masterpiece Jane Eyre (1847). After her death, The Professor was edited by Brontë's widower, Arthur Bell Nichols, who saw that the novel was published posthumously. Based on Brontë's experience as a student and teacher in Brussels-which similarly inspired her novel Villette-The Professor is...
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Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigates an apparent suicide when a man found hanging from a tree is identified as Mark Hardcastle, the local amateur theater company's set and costume designer, and when Mark's lover is found beaten to death in his home, Annie calls in help from Chief Inspector Alan Banks.
27) A narrow door
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"It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered. But Rebecca is here to make her mark. She'll bury the past so...
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Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape Cromwell's raiders; now, into Keldale's old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley to solve a savage murder.
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Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, injured in an explosion that has left his partner Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel near death, ignores the pleas of his wife and his friends in order to pursue the truth about the cause of the blast which leads him to a mysterious group guided by the philosophy of fighting terrorists with terrorism, and that is apparently funded by people in high places.
30) A stitch in time
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"When Bronwyn Dale inherits her great-aunt's Yorkshire manor, memories from her childhood visits come flooding back--and with them decades-old trauma. As a child, a 'stitch in time' in the house allowed Bronwyn to travel between her present and the 19th century, where she befriended William Thorne, the child of the manor's Victorian era owners. At 15, their friendship blossomed into romance--until a terrifying ghostly encounter in the modern day leads...
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"The annual Christmas Game is afoot at Endgame House, the Armitages' grand family home. This year's prize is to die for--deeds to the house itself--but Lily Armitage has no intention of returning. She hasn't been back to Endgame since her mother died twenty-one years ago, and she has no intention of claiming the house that haunts her dreams. Until, that is, she receives a letter from her aunt promising that the game's riddles will give her the keys...
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When the body of Connor Swann, son-in-law of operatic conductor Sir Gerald Asherton and soprano Dame Caroline Stowe, is found in the Thames, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James must explore the woods, the world of opera, and the complex relationships of the Asherton family.
33) Midnight fugue
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It starts with a phone call to Superintendent Dalziel from an old friend asking for help. But where it ends is a very different story. Gina Wolfe has come to mid Yorkshire in search of her missing husband, believed dead. Her fiancee, Commander Mick Purdy of the Met, thinks Dalziel should be able to take care of the job. What none of them realize is how events set in motion decades ago will come to a violent head on this otherwise ordinary summer's...
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Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. Mary Connon froze out her husband, Sam, long ago. She likes the attention of other men-like the fellow members of Sam's rugby club. Naturally, when she's found dead in her sitting room with a hole in her head, Sam is a suspect. If only he hadn't suffered a dizzying scrum injury that's left everything a blur. He isn't sure that he didn't...
37) A twist of fate
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"Three years ago, Rosalind Courtenay stumbled from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, where she has been trapped ever since, leaving her husband and infant son behind. Now she's found her way back. The problem, of course, is how to explain her absence to her husband. Does he think she abandoned him? Has he remarried? Is he happy in a new life? Rosalind decides to don a disguise in hopes of answering her questions before showing up on his...
38) A necessary end
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A peaceful demonstration in the normally quiet town of Eastvale ended with fifty arrests-and the brutal stabbing death of a young constable. But Chief Inspector Alan Banks fears there is worse violence in the offing. For CID superintendent Richard "Dirty Dick" Burgess has arrived from London to take charge of the investigation, fueled by professional outrage and volatile, long-simmering hatreds.Almost immediately, Burgess descends with vengeful fury...
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