Anne Perry's Silent Nights
Title | Anne Perry's Silent Nights PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Perry |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2009-10-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345517466 |
Here are two holiday mysteries set in remote, snow-covered regions of Victorian Britain–where the nights are indeed silent but all is not calm, and where some will sleep in eternal peace. A CHRISTMAS BEGINNING While spending Christmas on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, Superintendent Runcorn of Scotland Yard, a lonely bachelor, stumbles upon the lifeless body of the vicar’s younger sister in the village churchyard. Everyone insists that only a stranger to the island could have committed the heinous crime, but the evidence proves otherwise. Intending to uncover the identity of the ruthless killer, Runcorn never dreams that the case may also, miraculously, open the door to a new future for himself. A CHRISTMAS GRACE With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt’s sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt on the western coast of Ireland. Emily soon discovers that painful memories of an unsolved murder haunt the lonely Irish town and sets out to unmask the culprit. When a lone shipwreck survivor washes up onshore, he brings with him not only the key to solving the terrible crime but the opportunity for the townspeople to make peace with the past–and with one another.
Anne Perry's Christmas Vigil
Title | Anne Perry's Christmas Vigil PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Perry |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2011-10-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345524918 |
IN THESE TWO HOLIDAY MYSTERIES SET IN VICTORIAN LONDON, CHRISTMAS COMES WITH A HELPING OF MAGIC AND MURDER. A CHRISTMAS PROMISE Three days before Christmas, in London’s East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway, freezing and alone. Only the day before, someone murdered Minnie Maude’s Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart—as well as with Charlie, the beloved donkey who pulled it. Now, Grace and Minnie Maude set off to rescue Charlie. But the path that Uncle Alf had taken to his death was not his regular route, and in his cart, the children are told, was a dazzling golden casket that could very well be a Pandora’s box of evil or a shining prize of hope. A CHRISTMAS ODYSSEY Ten days before Christmas, James Wentworth feels not joy but grief. His reckless son, Lucien, has been lured into a world of drugs and wild passion. Wentworth’s only hope, he believes, is his old friend Henry Rathbone, who volunteers to search for the wayward young man with the help of two new companions—Squeaky Robinson, a reformed brothel-keeper, and Crow, a mysterious slum doctor. As this odd trio gathers clues about Lucien’s disappearance on London’s dark streets, they find themselves on a mission whose outcome they cannot begin to guess.
Silent Night (Paige Northwood, Book 2)
Title | Silent Night (Paige Northwood, Book 2) PDF eBook |
Author | Nell Pattison |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2020-11-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0008424357 |
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Silent House comes the perfect gripping mystery for fans of The Silent Patient.
An Echo of Murder
Title | An Echo of Murder PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Perry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0425285014 |
Series numbering inferred from series title page.
A Christmas Beginning
Title | A Christmas Beginning PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Perry |
Publisher | Random House LLC |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345485823 |
Spending his Christmas holidays on the remote island of Anglesey, off the north coast of Wales, a lonely Superintendent Runcorn is called in to investigate when the sister of the local vicar is found murdered and draped over a gravestone in her brother's churchyard, joining forces with the elegant Melisande to find the killer. 75,000 first printing.
Death of a Stranger
Title | Death of a Stranger PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Perry |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2010-09-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345514165 |
Few authors have written more mesmerizingly about Victorian London than Anne Perry. Readers enter her world with exquisite anticipation, and experience a rich variety of characters and class: aristocrats living in luxury, flower sellers on street corners, ladies of the evening seeking customers on gaslit streets, gentlemen in hansom cabs en route to erotic diversions unknown in their Mayfair mansions. Now Perry gives her myriad fans the book they’ve been waiting for—the novel in which William Monk breaks through the wall of amnesia and discovers at last who he once was. DEATH OF A STRANGER For the prostitutes of Leather Lane, nurse Hester Monk’s clinic is a lifeline, providing medicine, food, and a modicum of peace—especially welcome since lately their ailments have escalated from bruises and fevers to broken bones and knife wounds. At the moment, however, the mysterious death of railway magnate Nolan Baltimore in a sleazy neighborhood brothel overshadows all else. Whether he fell or was pushed, the shocking question in everyone’s mind is: What was such a pillar of respectability doing in a seedy place of sin? Meanwhile, brilliant private investigator William Monk acquires a new client, a mysterious beauty who asks him to ascertain beyond a shadow of a doubt whether or not her fiancé, an executive in Nolan Baltimore’s thriving railway firm, has become enmeshed in fraudulent practices that could ruin him. As Hester ventures into violent streets to learn who is responsible for the brutal abuse of her patients, Monk embarks upon a journey into the English countryside, where the last rails are being laid for a new line. But the sight of tracks stretching into the distance revives memories once stripped from his consciousness by amnesia—as a past almost impossible to bear returns, eerily paralleling a fresh tragedy that has already begun its inexorable unfolding.
That Silent Night
Title | That Silent Night PDF eBook |
Author | Tasha Alexander |
Publisher | Minotaur Books |
Pages | 81 |
Release | 2015-10-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466892773 |
'Tis the season for murder, mayhem, and mistletoe across the pond from New York Times bestselling author Tasha Alexander In this new short story from Tasha Alexander, Lady Emily -- called "Victorian London's most colorful and delightfully eccentric sleuth"* -- and her dashing husband Colin are spending a few days in London, doing some last-minute Christmas shopping and making the most of the time alone, when they find themselves in the middle of an unexpected mystery. The couple is just getting cozy, not at all bothered by the storm outside. But when Lady Emily looks out the window to see a woman standing in the blowing snow, without a coat, an eerie feeling falls over her, and she rushes out to help, only to find that the woman has disappeared. Colin is convinced her eyes were playing tricks on her, but Emily is haunted by the woman's image. Clearly, there is something spooky afoot, and she is determined to get to the bottom of it. . . . Complete with the vivid descriptions and period detail Lady Emily fans have come to expect from this series, That Silent Night is a delicious morsel of a mystery, with an irresistible ghost story at its heart. *Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series