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Convinced that two unexplained deaths on her London patch are murders, rookie police officer Heather Prendergast’s unofficial investigation takes her to an isolated mill town on the Huddshire moors where she unearths a web of corruption that threatens her career – and her life.A dyed in the wool Southerner, Heather discovers that the isolated mill town is a throwback to another age - the personal fiefdom of a crooked Mayor Cameron Carmichael in league with a corrupt police force led by Chief Constable Euridice Montefiore. Advanced reader reviews . . .'Stunning, beautiful, clever, witty and a delight to read!'  ‘Absolutely brilliant! A really beautiful novel . . . so unusual ....

Joe Rainone, popular fiction collector extraordinaire, made an important discovery among his most rare items. A serialized story in an 1884 American publication features a very Sherlock-like character, and this was published three years before the first Sherlock Holmes novel was first and American story papers and dime libraries were distributed on both sides of the Atlantic. Could it be possible that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, read Old Marvel, the Scientific Detective? Decide for yourself when you discern the similarities of the two fictional detectives. Joe Rainone has provided a thorough introduction to offer examples for the reader to is not a scanda...

Imagine if Miss Marple were Amish!
Jenny Hershberger returns to Apple Creek, Ohio, called by Detective Elbert Wainwright to help solve another cold case—a young Amish boy murdered in a deadly snowstorm and never identified. But as she digs into the case, she finds so many connections to her own life that the story becomes like a house of mirrors. As Jenny and Bobby Halverson travel from Apple Creek to Shipshewana, toTexas and Colorado, and back to Apple Creek, the trail grows warmer each day. But each step uncovers a new and a new twist. Who is the killer? And who THE BOY IN BLUE DENIM?