Regency Thriller

The holiday seasons was always something special for the Armstrong Family. But the unexpected death of their patriarch, the Eighth Duke of Ashby, had changed everything. Now, the family was ready to return to their traditional celebration for the sake of the children. This year, Owen Kennedy and Rose O’Mara were to join the family and their friends at the great estate of Ashby Abbey, along with the late duke’s brother and sister-in-law, Lord and Lady Lanningham. The festive atmosphere is spoiled by the thief of a huge diamond given to Lady Lanningham by her husband. The entire family is...

Es ist eine allgemein anerkannte Wahrheit, dass jeder gute Kriminalroman eine brillante Detektivin braucht... Im wunderbar atmosphärischen historischen Krimi »Miss Austen ermittelt. Die glücklose Hutmacherin« löst die junge Jane Austen ihren ersten Fall. Eigentlich will die 20-jährige Jane Austen den Ball in Deane House dazu nutzen, ihren Geliebten Tom Lefroy endlich zu einem Heiratsantrag zu bewegen. Doch plötzlich ist alle Romantik beim Teufel: In einem Wäscheschrank wird die Leiche einer Frau gefunden!

Being summoned to the home of a woman she despises, has upset the Dowager Duchess of Ashby's well-ordered life. Curiosity drives her to accept and find the house in chaos. Lady Honoria Huntington, also known as the notorious Lady Secrets, a much-hated gossip writer, has been murdered is a decidedly grisly way. Blythe Armstrong and her "nephew" Owen Kennedy take on the herculean task of finding the killer, among the hundreds of members of the ton who she has worked to destroy with her poison pen. Meanwhile, Owen must contend with his headstrong sister, who has turned his world on it's head.

England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues.

A Daphne du Maurier-esque chiller set on the mysterious Cornish coast from the author of The Silent Companions and The Corset. Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft’s family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the same disease in the cliffs beneath his new Cornish home.

South, the Marquess of Southerton, is on quest to retrieve some love letters from a Duke's past lover. Bored to go through another season, he goes to the Lady's house and finds a way to be invited to stay. The Lady is married to a man who looks like a scholar and very genteel but she seems to be intensely unhappy. After a while, South finds out some strange happenings in the house. What is the mystery of the bleeding mirror?

When Gwenllian Lloyd literally knocks dashing Daniel Wyckliff off his feet in Bath's Sydney Gardens, she is unaware intrigue looms before her. The year is 1804. England fears invasion from Napoleon's France. Gwenllian has just met the man of her dreams, but is he a man she can trust?

"SECRETS AND LIES by Marilyn Clay is a terrific book. Four young women come from England on a Bride Ship to marry colonists and help settle the New World. Strangers to one another, each girl brings a secret. After surviving the trip across the sea, they find life in the Jamestown colony is not what they dreamed. SECRETS AND LIES is like stepping through a doorway into history. Ms. Clay has done an incredible amount of research into the period, how it would look and smell and feel if you were truly in 1620s Jamestown. The romances are sweet and touching and made me sigh in pure happiness. ...

Sir Horace Lambourn y su familia, estaban al borde del desastre financiero. En un último y desesperado viaje a Londres, les trajo por fin, un rayo de esperanza a los Lambourn. Su Alteza Real, el Príncipe de Meldenstein, pedía en matrimonio, la mano de su hija Camelia. Habría en contrapartida, un generoso arreglo financiero a favor de la novia. Camelia, presa por temores y inquietudes, no tuvo más remedio, que acepta, al desconocido pretendiente de la realeza, para salvar la familia de la ruina.

Nicoletta, the Countess Vilandry, is on a mission to lure fellow spy Gabriel D'Arcy into bed and into revealing his true loyalties. With such sensual games at play, suddenly Nicky's dangerously close to exposing her real identity. Gabe knows the Countess has been sent to seduce him. He's never met such a captivating woman - and he's determined to enjoy every second she spends as his very willing captive!

Miss Sophie Tennant was a girl of 19, of sweet, if a bit sickly, disposition, and golden curls. She had been confined to her invalid's chair since her childhood after a bad fall. Her health had deteriorated rapidly following her parents' deaths, and she'd hardly risen from it since. Sophie was waiting for her ladies' maid to wheel her to her bedchamber, when she screamed. In front of her she sees a dead body, white and pale in the candlelight. She reaches out a hand and touches its cheek.

An ancient coin from the Land of Israel goes missing during a dinner party hosted by the Lyon family. The most likely suspect is Judah Birnbaum, a young man from the Holy Land who has come to England to raise funds for his community. But why would the young man jeopardize his mission by stealing the coin? For once, Mr. Melamed has too many clues - making this one of the most baffling cases of his career.

Years after the Salem witch trials one witch remains. She just doesn’t know it...yet. Growing up, Lydia Montrose knew she was descended from the legendary witches of Salem but was warned to never show the world what she could do and so slowly forgot her legacy. But Willow Hall has awoken something inside her.... 1821: having fled family scandal in Boston, Willow Hall seems an idyllic refuge from the world, especially when Lydia meets the previous owner of the house, John Barrett. But a subtle menace haunts the grounds of Willow Hall, with strange voices and ghostly apparitions in the night....

Cuando Odella descubrió accidentalmente una red de espionaje al servicio de Napoleón, inmediatamente se puso en contacto con el Lord Representante de la Corona. Este la envió a entrevistarse con el Marqués de Midhurst, encargado del caso. Lo que no habían conseguido los mejores agentes ingleses, lo había logrado Odella, y el Marqués impresionado por la inteligencia de la hermosa joven, la convenció para que lo ayudara en su tarea. Odella debía emplear sus dotes innatas y conseguir información vital para salvar la vida de muchos soldados y marinos ingleses.

A duchess has been stolen from her bed in the middle of the night. The Marquess of Southerton happens upon the scene, only to find the entire chamber bathed in blood. Who did this violence? And how is it connected to his own wife's near murder? Things are not what they seem in the dark, foggy, crime-plagued streets of Regency London.

Hundreds of innocent lives are in danger, as a black tendril of murder and crime unfurls above the gloomy London skies. But the Marquess of Southerton has no idea where to look for the culprit. All he has is a note threatening his wife's life, and the whispers of a dying man. He doesn't even have a name.