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No Graves As Yet
by Anne Perry
Learning about the untimely deaths of his parents, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is horrified when his father's acts of sedition are discovered, a situation that is complicated by the murder of a gifted and popular student, in a novel set against the backdrop of World War I.
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Dead Man's Land
by Robert Ryan
Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying by in droves every day so one more death shouldn't be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes's former sidekick Dr. John Watson finds his suspicions raised. Something is terribly wrong and where better to get away with murder than a place where thousands are dying every day?
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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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A Test of Wills
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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A Front Page Affair
by Radha Vatsal
When a man is murdered at a high society picnic on her beat, journalist Kitty Weeks is plunged into a wartime conspiracy that threatens to derail the United States' attempt to remain neutral and to disrupt the privileged life she has always known.
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A House of Ghosts
by William Ryan
Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives. At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, armaments manufacturer Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons, both of whom died at the front. As the guests arrive, it becomes clear that each has something they would rather keep hidden. Then, when a storm descends, they find themselves trapped on the island. Soon one of their number will die. For Blackwater Abbey is haunted in more ways than one.
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The Star of Istanbul
by Robert Olen Butler
American spy and war correspondent Christopher Marlowe Cobb follows a man who may be a German secret service agent with vital information on to the Lusitania during World War I in this sequel to The Hot Country.
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The Return of Captain John Emmett
by Elizabeth Speller
Drawn back to the Western Front when an old flame asks for his help in discerning the truth about her veteran brother's alleged suicide, detective Laurence Bartram uncovers a link between a group of war poets and a bitter feud in the victim's regiment before additional veterans are discovered dead.
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River of Darkness
by Rennie Airth
Tormented by his harrowing wartime experiences and the loss of his family, Inspector John Madden is sent by Scotland Yard to investigate when a small Surrey village is torn apart by five horrific murders and joins forces with a beautiful doctor to capture the killer, a demented veteran of World War I.
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The Victory Garden
by Rhys Bowen
Marrying an Australian pilot during World War I, Emily volunteers to tend the neglected grounds of a Devonshire estate where she finds inspiration and support in an herbalist's long-forgotten journals. By the award-winning author of The Tuscan Child.
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