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English Village Murder Mysteries
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Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor
by Stephanie Barron
Shortly after author Jane Austen's arrival at the estate of the Countess of Scargrave, the countess's elderly husband falls victim to a mysterious illness, his widow becomes the target of sinister accusations, and Jane endangers her own life to get to the bottom of the puzzle.
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Death of a Gossip
by M. C Beaton
Police Constable Hamish Macbeth is called in to investigate the death of the unpopular Lady Jane, a malicious gossip and student at the Lochdubh School of Casting, Salmon and Trout Fishing in the Scottish Highlands.
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The Potted Gardener
by M. C. Beaton
Spurned by her attractive neighbor for beautiful newcomer Mary Fortune, Agatha Raisin immerses herself in a case involving a murder and the destruction of several prominent gardens, but she hides a secret of her own.
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, begins her adventure when a dead bird is found on the doorstep of her family's mansion in the summer of 1950, thus propelling her into a mystery that involves an investigation into a man's murder where her father is the main suspect.
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Folly
by Stella Cameron
Returning home to Folly-on-Weir in the Cotswolds to start over after a disastrous marriage, Alex Duggins stumbles upon a dead body in the snow, which launches an investigation that unearths old secrets, including her own, forcing her to dig up the town's darkest deceptions to clear her own name.
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Sick of Shadows: an Edwardian Murder Mystery
by Marion Chesney
Arranging an engagement to the infuriating Captain Harry Cathcart in order to escape her extradition to India, Edwardian Lady Rose Summer finds the agreement complicated by a melodramatic new friend's untimely demise, a murder Rose's intended helps her investigate.
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The Body in the Library
by Agatha Christie
When Colonel and Mrs. Bantry find the corpse of a beautiful girl in their library, they rely upon their good friend Miss Marple to solve the crime.
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The Murder at the Vicarage
by Agatha Christie
St. Mary Mead, a peaceful village where nothing ever happens, livens up considerably when the unpopular magistrate Colonel Protheroe is found dead, and Miss Marple discovers that a number of people wanted him dead.
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Raven Black
by Ann Cleeves
When murder strikes a remote hamlet in the Shetland Islands, and the body of a teenage girl turns up in the winter snow, Inspector Jimmy Perez launches an investigation into the killing that takes him into the heart of sinister secrets from the past. Winner of the 2006 Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award.
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Silence of the Grave
by Arnaldur Indriðason
When a skeleton is unearthed at a Reykjavik building site, Inspector Erlendur and his colleagues set out to unravel a complex decades-old crime that may have ties to his own troubled family history. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award.
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A Share in Death
by Deborah Crombie
Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Duncan Kincaid vacations incognito at a time-share house in the north of England but must assume his true identity once again when a new acquaintance is found murdered in the hotel whirlpool.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense. And immersed in another case, he sends Watson to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and observe the suspects close at hand.
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The House on the Strand
by Daphne Du Maurier
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research.
When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wear off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, and the home of the beautiful Lady Isolda.
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A Great Deliverance
by Elizabeth George
Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, a frightened Yorkshire villager smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey while hiding from Cromwell's raiders. Now Lynley and Havers are sent to Keldale to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside.
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Why Shoot a Butler?
by Georgette Heyer
On a dark night, along a lonely country road, barrister Frank Amberley stops to help a young lady in distress and discovers a sports car with a corpse behind the wheel. The girl protests her innocence, and Amberley believes her; at least until he gets drawn into the mystery and the clues incriminating Shirley Brown begin to add up.
In an English country house murder mystery with a twist, it's the butler who's the victim, every clue complicates the puzzle, and the bumbling police are well meaning but completely baffled. Fortunately, in ferreting out a desperate killer, amateur sleuth Amberley is as brilliant as he is arrogant, but this time he's not sure he wants to know the truth
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Magpie Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
Ignoring the troubling behavior of an eccentric crime writer with whom she has worked for years, editor Susan Ryeland is dismayed when a subplot hidden in the author's latest manuscript reveals a real-world murder. By the best-selling author of Moriarty. 150,000 first printing.
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Moonflower Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
Helping run her boyfriend’s small Greek island hotel, a homesick London editor is irresistibly drawn to the story of a murder on the Suffolk coast and the wrongful incarceration of an innocent immigrant.
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Death Comes to Pemberley
by P. D James
Pemberley is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett's disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announces that her husband Wickham has been murdered
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A Place of Execution
by Val McDermid
Police Inspector George Bennet, who investigated the never-solved disappearance of thirteen-year-old Alison Carter from her cloistered village decades ago, finds shattering new evidence, leading writer Catherine Heathcote to investigate further. Reprint.
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In Prior's Wood
by G. M. Malliet
When the lady of the local manor house is found dead among rumors of a suicide pact with her young lover, handsome vicar Max Tudor lends his MI5 expertise to the ensuing investigation, which is tied to the victim's far-from-bereaved husband, a local writers' retreat, an insufferably smug author and a missing girl. By the Agatha Award-winning author of Devil's Breath.
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In a Dry Season
by Peter Robinson
When a drought drains the local Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering a long-drowned small village and the skeleton of a murder victim from the 1940s, Detective Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabot must investigate the decades-old crime and unmask an evil secret from the past.
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The Nine Tailors
by Dorothy L. Sayers
When a disfigured corpse is discovered in a country parish, the local rector pleads with Lord Peter to take on what will become one of his most brilliant and complicated cases.
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Murder on Gramercy Park
by Victoria Thompson
When a newborn baby falls ill after a successful delivery, turn-of-the-century New York midwife Sarah Brandt searches for the cause of the infant's mysterious illness, an investigation that is linked to a scandal involving greed, betrayal, passion, and murder.
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A Test of Wills: the First Inspector Rutledge Mystery
by Charles Todd
Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge returns home suffering from shellshock and the emotional strains of World War I, but he soon goes back to work and must solve a murder case involving the killing of a retired military officer, a crime in which the main suspect is a highly decorated war hero.
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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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Maisie Dobbs
by Jacqueline Winspear
In her first case, private detective Maisie Dobbs must investigate the reappearance of a dead man who turns up at a cooperative farm called the Retreat that caters to men who are recovering their health after World War I.
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