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The Light in the Ruins
by Chris Bohjalian
Hoping to safeguard themselves from the ravages of World War II within the walls of their ancient villa in Florence, the noble Rosatis family become prisoners in their home when 18-year-old Cristina's courtship by a German lieutenant prompts the Nazis to take over the estate, a situation that leads to a serial murder investigation years later.
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The House at Tyneford
by Natasha Solomons
A 19-year-old Jewish girl in 1938 Vienna escapes the Nazis by becoming a domestic servant in England at Tyneford, home of the aristocratic Rivers family, where she forms a friendship with the youngest son that changes them both.
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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
At the great Cornwall estate of Manderley, Maxim de Winter and his frightened new wife try to live with the haunting legacy of Maxim's first wife, the beautiful and cold Rebecca, who died in a sailing accident.
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The Ghost at the Table : A Novel
by Suzanne Berne
Thanksgiving at the New England home of the second of three sisters marks a reunion between the three Fiske sisters--including Cynthia, the youngest, an author writing a book about Mark Twain's daughters--and their long-estranged father, in a portrait of the unraveling of a family, set against the famous nineteenth-century author's own family dysfunction.
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The Winter Sea
by Susanna Kearsley
Carrie settles into the shadow of Slains Castle in Scotland, creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors, and starts to write about the Jacobite invasion of 1708. When she can no longer tell the difference between today and centuries ago, is she dealing with an ancestral memory--a memory that might destroy her?
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Sleep, Pale Sister
by Joanne Harris
Henry Chester, a puritanical and tyrannical Victorian artist, finds the perfect model in nine-year-old Effie, until, ten years later, Effie, a childlike, biddable, and sedated perfect wife, awakens as an illicit love affair draws her into a dark and dangerous world of blackmail, revenge, and intrigue.
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The Savage Garden
by Mark Mills
Assigned to write a monograph about a famous 16th-century garden, aimless young Cambridge scholar Adam Banting visits the enigmatic garden only to discover clues that the woman to whom the garden was dedicated may have been murdered, a finding that points to a related and more recent killing.
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The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
After being summoned to treat a patient at dilapidated Hundreds Hall, Dr. Faraday finds himself becoming entangled in the lives of the owners, the Ayres family, and the supernatural presences in the house.
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Beautiful Lies
by Clare Clark
A tale inspired by the true story of a Liberal MP's wife who lived a double life for decades follows the experiences of Scottish aristocrat's wife Maribel Campbell, a self-proclaimed Chilean heiress who in late Victorian London finds her husband's career threatened by a notorious journalist's investigation into her true past.
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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon--all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where "the most interesting things happen at night."
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The Lavender Garden
by Lucinda Riley
After she inherits her childhood home, a magnificent chateau in Le Cote d'Azur, France, Emilie de la Martinieres realizes that it may hold secrets to her family's enigmatic past during World War II.
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The Legacy
by Katherine Webb
After the death of their grandmother, Erica Calcott and her sister Beth return to Storton Manor in Wiltshire, England, where they, while sorting through her things, decide to discover what really happened to their cousin Henry whose disappearance tore the family apart so that the past can be laid to rest.
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Drowning Ruth
by Christina Schwarz
Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and young niece, Ruth.
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Sepulchre
by Kate Mosse
Conducting research in southwest France, American graduate student Meredith Martin finds the grand old hotel where she is staying eerily familiar and experiences strange dreams and visions about a sister and brother whose visit to the same region a century earlier had unexpected otherworldly consequences.
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The Last Camellia
by Sarah Jio
When garden designer Addison, along with her husband, take up residence at an old English manor, she stumbles upon a mystery, dating back to World War II, that involves the enchanting camellia orchard and an old gardener's notebook, which conceals a series of horrible crimes.
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The Lantern
by Deborah Lawrenson
Embarking on a torrid affair with Dom, a wealthy older man she barely knows, which brings about a new life and a new home in Provence, bookish Eve, as autumn approaches, becomes obsessed with finding out why Dom won't talk about his previous marriage--and what happened to his beautiful ex-wife.
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The Weight of Water
by Anita Shreve
While investigating a century-old crime of passion on an island off New Hampshire, Jean becomes fixated on the case and begins to project this knowledge on her own marriage, believing that her husband is unfaithful, causing unrealized and dangerous emotions to surface.
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The Birth of Venus
by Sarah Dunant
Turning 15 in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter whom her father has brought to the city to decorate the family's Florentine palazzo, a situation that is complicated by her unwanted arranged marriage to an older man and a battle between the Medici family and the fundamentalist followers of Savonarola.
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