fiction

  • Book 1 in the Barker & Llewelyn series. When Cyrus Barker advertises for a new assistant, a job that is described as having “some danger involved”, Thomas Llewelyn applies for the job. Barker is a Sherlock Holmes-style private detective possessing great knowledge, impressive fighting skills, a vast network of contacts and informants and firsthand experience…

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  • Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, known as Georgie to her friends, is a cousin of King George V of England and 35th in line to the throne. Unfortunately her family has fallen on hard times, and as Georgie refuses to marry for anything but love, she is basically penniless. Determined to fend for herself without…

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  • Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

    Book 1 in the Anno Dracula series. What if vampires were the ruling class of Victorian England, with Dracula himself having turned and married Queen Victoria, installing himself in London as the ruler of the British Empire? And what if the victims of Jack the Ripper were all vampires? This is the premise of Anno…

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  • It is a truth universally acknowledged that a cozy mystery town by the name of Boring, will be anything but. When devoted Janeite Kay Starling comes up with the idea of hosting a Jane Austen festival to bring some much needed influx of capital into the small town of Boring, she has no idea that…

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  • On the small island of San Piedro on the northwest coast of Washington in 1954, a local fisherman, Carl, is found dead, tangled in his own net and drowned. A suspicious wound on his head leads to an investigation into the dead man’s affairs, and before long another local fisherman, Kabuo, is accused of murder.…

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  • A great insight into the mind of Christopher Boone, a fifteen year old boy living with his father and attending a special needs schools. The first chapter of this books is labelled 2. The second chapter is 3. The third chapter is 5. Why? Because Christopher likes prime numbers. This is just one of many…

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  • The Dry

    Book 1 in the Aaron Falk series. In the small farming town of Kiewarra in Australia, the Hadler family is found brutally murdered, with the infant daughter being the only survivor. Aaron Falk, Federal Police investigator in Melbourne, is called back to town for the Hadler funeral. As a child, Aaron was best friends with…

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