A Mortal Curiosity (Lizzie Martin Mysteries)
by Ann Granger
from St. Martin's Minotaur
It’s 1864 and Lizzie Martin is leaving London for the south coast of England to be the companion of Lucy Craven, a teenager who lives in seclusion with her aunts and has recently lost an infant daughter to illness. En route, Lizzie meets Doctor Lefebre, a slightly off-putting gentleman headed for the same destination. Lefebre, it turns out, is an alienist hired by Lucy’s family to determine whether the young woman is mad. And he discloses something shocking: Lucy Craven doesn’t believe her daughter is dead; she insists the baby was stolen from her.
In Hampshire, complications mount. Late at night, Lizzie hears furtive voices outside, there’s a gentleman farmer whose demeanor with Lucy seems unusually familiar, and, while Lucy proves a bit moody, she hardly seems deranged. The girl’s aunts are clearly withholding something. . . . These tensions come to a head when a man is found dead in the garden, stabbed with a knife from the aunts’ home.
Lizzie calls upon her beau, Inspector Benjamin Ross. Together, they find themselves entangled in a mystery as bewildering as any they’ve faced.
The Companion (Lizzie Martin Mysteries)
by Ann Granger
from St. Martin's Minotaur
When Lizzie Martin arrives in London in 1864 to become a lady’s companion, her first impressions are disturbing. She’s barely out of the station when her cab encounters a wagon carrying the remains of a young woman recently dead.
At her new home, Lizzie learns that her predecessor, Madeleine Hexham, disappeared without a word of warning. Despite rumors of immoral behavior surrounding the girl’s departure, Lizzie is soon persuaded that there’s a deeper mystery here. Her suspicions are tragically confirmed when Inspector Benjamin Ross delivers shocking tidings.
Lizzie is determined to unravel the truth about the lost Miss Hexham. As, too, is Ben Ross: a man who cares about justice, whatever the class of victim. But they must tread carefully, as a cornered killer is the most dangerous of all...
That Way Murder Lies: A Mitchell and Markby Mystery (Meredith and Markby Mysteries)
by Ann Granger
from St. Martin's Minotaur
Markby is reluctant to become involved, not least because Toby is hardly his favorite person. Besides, he and Meredith are planning their wedding, and distractions aren't welcome. But inquiries into a poisoned pen campaign soon turn into a murder investigation.
With the help of Inspector Jessica Campbell, a new member of Markby's team, and the non-professional but enthusiastic assistance of Meredith and Toby, the inquiry unravels a twenty-five-year-old mystery and its dreadful legacy of violence.
Shades of Murder (A Mitchell & Markby Mystery)
by Ann Granger
from Headline Book Publishing
Beneath These Stones (A Mitchell & Markby Mystery)
by Ann Granger
from Headline Book Publishing
A Restless Evil (A Mitchell & Markby Mystery)
by Ann Granger
from Headline Book Publishing
Where Old Bones Lie (Meredith and Markby Mysteries)
by Ann Granger
from Avon Books
Meredith Mitchell has joined her friend, archaeologist Ursula Gretton, in the Cotswold village farmland, digging for the old bones of Saxon warriors. But it's the discovery of some very new bones that brings Inspector Alan Markby to the ancient burial grounds to solve a modern-day murder.
The victim turns out to be the wife of Ursula's fellow archaeologist, Dan Woollard...with whom Ursula has just ended a brief affair. Dan claims he was trapped in an unhappy marriage, and in love with Ursula, but swears he's not guilty of murder. But when a second body is found on the site and attempts are made on Ursula's life, it takes the sleuthing skills of the Meredith and Markby team to sift through a mountain of conflicting clues, suspects, and possible witnesses to identify the killer and solve a twenty-five-year-old mystery as well.
Flowers for His Funeral: A Meredith and Markby Mystery (Meredith and Markby Mysteries (Paperback))
by Ann Granger
from Avon Books (Mm)
Candle for a Corpse (Meredith and Markby Mysteries)
by Ann Granger
from Avon Books
WHO MOURNS THE FORGOTTEN DEPARTED?
The last of the Greshams has died in the quaint Cotswolds village of Bamford. But the dowagers interment unearths something shocking in the Gresham family plot: the remains of a pregnant teenager who disappeared twelve years earlier. . .a runaway whom nobody dreamed was dead.
The discovery has put Superintendent Alan Markbys planned vacation with his friend Meredith Mitchell on hold--as they follow a very cold trail that could lead all the way to the British Parliament. For the years have not diminished the heinousness of this crime. And they cannot rest until they know who left a black candle burning on the All Saints parish altar more than a decade ago. . .and who consigned an unfortunate young woman to the eternal darkness of anothers grave.
Risking It All (A Fran Varady Crime Novel)
by Ann Granger
from Headline Book Publishing
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