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SOLD DOWN THE RIVER

Barbara Hambly SOLD DOWN THE RIVER Benjamin January, a free man of colour in 1830s New Orleans, is asked by Simon Fourchet to investigate the sabotage, arson, and murder at his plantation. Benjamin is reluctant to do any favours for the savage man who owned him until he was seven. But he knows that plantation justice means that if the true culprit is not found, then every slave on Mon Triumphe will suffer. Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of a field hand, cutting cane until his bones ache and his musician's hands bleed, Benjamin must use all his intelligence and cunning to find the killer or find himself sold down the river. 409 pages, paperback Condition: mint

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THE POYSON GARDEN

Karen Harper THE POYSON GARDEN The letter came in secret, with a pearl eardrop from an aunt long thought dead, resurrecting the forbidden past. Banished by her half sister, Queen Mary, to Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, twenty-five-year-old Princess Elizabeth cannot refuse the summons. The Boleyns are in grave danger, and Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn is marked for death by a master poisoner whose reign of terror may have royal sanction. With her few loyal retainers, Elizabeth escapes to Kent. Here, in her ancestral Hever Castle, now held by the Queen's loyalists, Elizabeth seeks to unravel the plot against her. And here, in the embrace of intrigue and betrayal, the princess must find a powerfully connected killer - before the killer finds her. 302 pages, paperback Condition: good

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MAN'S STORM

Keith Heller MAN'S STORM On November 26th, 1703 a great gale tore through England. Some terrified Londoners had narrow escapes in the chaos, others were killed, among them Joan Fletcher, shrewish wife of Alan Fletcher the ironmonger. But the savage blow which split her head points to more suspicious circumstances. Surreptitiously, George Man, a young parish watchman, trails the ironmonger through the dangerous backstreets, while the storm rages on. And as Fletcher's secret life emerges, it reveals a web of intrigue that stretches from the brothels of Westminster to a brickworks in Tilbury, owned by the mysterious Dissenter Daniel Defoe. Who, Man realises, holds the key to the murder - if only he can be found. 218 pages, paperback Condition: good

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THE SANCTUARY SEEKER

Bernard Knight THE SANCTUARY SEEKER November, 1194 AD. Appointed by Richard the Lionheart as the first coroner for the county of Devon, Sir John de Wolfe, an ex-crusader, rides out to the lonely moorland village of Widecombe to hold an inquest on an unidentified body. But on his return to Exeter, the Coroner is incensed to find that his own brother-in-law, Sheriff Richard de Revelle, is intent on thwarting the murder investigation, particularly when it emerges that the dead man was a Crusader, and a member of one of Devon's most honourable families. But Crowner John is ready to fight for the truth, even when faced with the combined might of the all-powerful church and nobility. Written by former the Home Office pathologist. 320 pages, paperback Condition: good

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THE BLIND IN DARKNESS

Stephen Lewis THE BLIND IN DARKNESS Midwife Catherine Williams goes out one snowy afternoon to administer first aid to the eccentric owner of a neighbouring farm. Days later, old man Powell is found dead - not from the wound Catherine tended, but from a killer's brutal work. And his young apprentice has disappeared. Suspicion instantly falls upon Massaquoit, Catherine's Indian servant. But the widwife knows that fear, ignorance, and old grudges lie behind the accusations. While Massaquoit sets out to prove his innocence in his own fashion, Catherine continues her rounds, gathering clues about the dark secrets that simmer beneath Newbury's Puritan piety. 265 pages, paperback Condition: good

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TOO SOON FOR FLOWERS

Margaret Miles TOO SOON FOR FLOWERS Spring 1764 and while the spectre of smallpox stalks colonial Boston, much of the city seeks refuge in the burgeoning countryside. Restful, bucolic Bracebridge is one such haven, and young widow Charlotte Willett and her neighbour Richard Longfellow, scientist and gentleman farmer, host a handful of guests undergoing the generally accepted procedure of inoculation. Yet shortly after the quarantine begins, one of the patients is found dead and Charlotte and Richard are thrust into a whirl of rumour, conjecture and fear. What, if not smallpox, caused the patient's untimely death? Has the distraught physician in charge something to conceal? And who might risk contagion to commit murder? Before these questions can be answered, another shocking death occurs. Can Charlotte and Richard arrive at the truth before another victim is claimed? 290 pages, paperback Condition: good

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NO REST FOR THE DOVE

Margaret Miles NO REST FOR THE DOVE It is the summer of 1765, and Charlotte Willett is enjoying the balmy languor of Bracebridge with her cultured neighbour, Richard Longfellow. But their peaceful routine shatters with the arrival of Richard's elegant friend from overseas. Known as il Colombo - the Dove - Gian Carlo Lahte is an Italian singer who soon holds the local ladies spellbound. On the day he arrives tavern talk turns to a homegrown mystery: a corpse found on the Boston road, his body reeking of liquor, his identity unknown. Charlotte can't help but wonder why Signore Lahte is so shaken by the sight of the victim - and why the dead man's boots are so quickly stolen! 273 pages, paperback Condition: good

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