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Miss Dimple Disappears: A Mystery
Mignon F. Ballard - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
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It's 1942, almost a year since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and the residents of the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, have been rattled down to their worn, rationed shoes. For young teacher Charlie Carr, life and love aren't going exactly as planned - her head dictates loyalty to the handsome... |
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A Fierce Radiance: A Novel
Lauren Belfer - Harper
Format: Print book
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"An engrossing and ambitious novel that vividly portrays a critical time in American history." - BOOKLIST (starred review) "Enthralling. A Fierce Radiance shines with fascinating detail.... Belfer's powerful portrayal of how people are changed in pursuit of a miracle... |
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Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery
James R. Benn - Soho Press
Format: Hardcover
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"This book has got it all - an instant classic." - Lee Child, author of The Hard Way "It is a pleasure marching off to war with the spirited Billy Boyle. He is a charmer, richly imagined and vividly rendered, and he tells a finely suspenseful yarn." - Dan Fesperman,... |
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Zoo Station
David Downing - Soho Press
Format: Hardcover
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By 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell has spent over a decade in Berlin, where his son lives with his mother. He writes human-interest pieces for British and American papers, avoiding the investigative journalism that could get him deported. But as World War II approaches, he faces... |
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Full Dark House
Christopher Fowler - Bantam Books
Format: Print book
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Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler... |
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Bottled Spider
John Gardner - Severn House
Format: Hardcover
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London, 1940. As the Blitz takes grip, a young and naive policewoman is promoted beyond her abilities and experience, to work in C.I.D. She is to take the place of the men going off to war. Soon Suzie Mountford is caught up in a case of serial murder that augurs to be more sinister and more... |
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The War Against Miss Winter (Rosie Winter Mysteries)
Kathryn Miller Haines - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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It's 1943, and the war escalating in Europe and the Pacific seems far away. But for aspiring actress Rosie Winter, the war feels as if it were right in New York City - what with food rationing and frequent blackouts . . . and a boyfriend she hasn't heard word one from since he enlisted... |
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A Good Death
Elizabeth Ironside - Felony & Mayhem Press
Format: Hardcover
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It?s 1944 and Theo Cazalle is returning to the family he left in Bonnemort, an estate deep in the French countryside, when he went off to fight with the Free French. Memories of Bonnemort have sustained him through four years of war, but when at last he comes home, he finds his world in tatters.... |
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Season of Darkness (Detective Inspector Tom Tyler Mysteries)
Maureen Jennings - McClelland & Stewart
Format: Paperback
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The creator of the acclaimed Detective Murdoch Mysteries turns her exceptional storytelling skills to a murder mystery set in rural Shropshire, England, in the darkest days of the Second World War.Following the disastrous retreat of the British army from Dunkirk in 1940, England is plunged... |
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March Violets: A Bernie Gunther Novel
Philip Kerr - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a "brilliantly innovative thriller-writer," Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries that are nothing short of spellbinding. The first book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, March Violets introduces readers to Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman... |
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Mr. Churchill's Secretary: A Maggie Hope Mystery
Susan Elia MacNeal - Bantam
Format: Paperback
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For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, Mr. Churchill's Secretary captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge - and the greatness that rose to meet it.London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat... |
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The Man From Berlin
Luke McCallin - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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Amidst the chaos of World War II ... In a land of brutality and bloodshed ... One death can still change everything. In war-torn Yugoslavia, a beautiful young filmmaker and photographer - a veritable hero to her people - and a German officer have been brutally murdered. Assigned to the case... |
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Don't Die Under the Apple Tree
Amy Patricia Meade - Kensington Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Life is definitely not easy for 32-year old Rosie O'Doyle Keefe, but she can handle working in New York City's World War II shipyards--until her foreman winds up dead--right after she rebuffed his "requirements" for a promotion. . . Never one to sit back and hope for the best,... |
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The Information Officer: A Novel
Mark Mills - Random House
Format: Print book
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Mark Mills's bestselling novels Amagansett and The Savage Garden have won him widespread acclaim for his singular brand of suspense. Weaving a haunting and atmospheric historical backdrop with a tense plot of murder and an unforgettable love story, he delivers another riveting... |
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The Yard Dog: A Mystery
Sheldon Russell - Minotaur Books
Format: Book
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The Yard Dog takes place near the close of World War II, when a large number of Nazi POWs were incarcerated in camps scattered across the prairies of the United States. At Waynoka Divisional Point, near POW Camp Alva, the disillusioned Hook Runyon is assigned by the railroad to run off hobos... |
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Louise's War
Sarah Shaber - Severn House
Format: Print book
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It's 1942. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington DC to work for the legendary Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. When she discovers a document concerning the husband of her college friend Rachel Bloch-a young French Jewish woman she is desperately... |
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The Innocent Spy
Laura Wilson - Minotaur Books
Format: Print book
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London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on a wrought-iron fence, the coroner rules her death as suicide. Detective Ted Stratton is not convinced and suspects that Morgan's fatal fall may have been the work of one of Soho's most notorious gangsters.Meanwhile,... |
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