The Thames River Murders - format ePub

Captain Gabriel Lacey begins Spring 1818 preparing for a duel. But while he focuses on the affair of honor, darkness, greed, and death stalk the streets of London and bring tragedy to a family Lacey has...

Captain Gabriel Lacey accompanies famous dandy Lucius Grenville to Egypt, a land that Lacey has long anticipated visiting. Lacey travels there for more than a simple holiday, however—James Denis has tasked...

1816When I, cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey, return to London from the Napoleonic Wars, I am exhausted and fighting melancholia, my army career ended.My interest is piqued, however, when I learn of a man's...

Three holiday mysteries fill this volume, from the ancient world to Victorian London.Saturnalian GiftsDecember, AD 63—As former gladiator Leonidas approaches his one-year anniversary of freedom, his old...

Leonidas, freeman, former slave gladiator and champion of the Roman Colosseum, now must fight the full might of the Roman Empire.  A man who owed him money was murdered, and Leonidas is a prime suspect....

Quand la police de Bow Street convoque le capitaine Gabriel Lacey dans une salle de bal de Berkeley Square, l'heure est grave. On vient de retrouver un jeune dandy mort par arme blanche lors d'une soirée...

Leonidas, champion gladiator of Rome, is set free from the games by a mysterious benefactor who grants him freedom, a place to live, and a servant—Cassia, a scribe—to look after him. But the benefactor...

London 1816Returning home through a London night in July 1816, I am surprised to spy a well-dressed, elegant woman stride to the middle of an unfinished bridge. Following her in curiosity, I'm on hand...

Three historical mysteries span time from the court of Louis XIV to Victorian London.Meet Émilie d'Armand, a young woman who witnesses corruption and murder in seventeenth-century France (The Bishop's...

When I agree to visit Grenville in his villa near Rome, I scarcely imagine that I immediately will become embroiled in mystery and mayhem. James Denis has requested that I purchase an antique from a collector,...

London, 1819: When Brewster, my bodyguard, comes to me about a murder of a pugilist—and what's more, says his wife has summoned me—I must hasten to St. Giles to find a killer before Brewster is arrested...

March 1820When James Denis is arrested for murder and lands himself in Newgate, it falls to me to prove his innocence. I have nowhere to start but in a dark street in Seven Dials and the name of the unknown...

When Captain Gabriel Lacey finds himself standing over a dead body in Brighton Pavilion, bloody sword in hand and no memory of how he got there, he immediately fears he is a murderer.The dead man is Colonel...

September 1817: Captain Gabriel Lacey travels with Lady Breckenridge to his boyhood home in northern Norfolk only to discover mysterious happenings in and around the Lacey estate. A young woman, cousin...

Captain Lacey takes a post as a secretary at the Sudbury School in Berkshire, a school for sons of the wealthiest merchants and bankers in England. He discovers as soon as he arrives that he's been hired...

A Bow Street Runner summons Captain Gabriel Lacey to a Berkeley Square ballroom where a young dandy has been found stabbed to death during a society ball. The prime suspect: Lacey's former commander,...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell returns with a breathtakingly honest novel about a woman who lost everything — and isn't sure she wants it back.Everybody knows that Cherry's husband,...

A struggling Hollywood actor falls into a life of crime in this highly anticipated second novel from Hollywood Hustle author and four-time Emmy Award nominee Jon Lindstrom.Twenty years ago, Jake Ferguson...

The monsters aren't just in the shadows anymore—they've made the Obelisk their hunting ground.As blood spills and the Halls descend into chaos, Iona and her allies fight to stay alive in a school that...

I've had my eye on her for four years, but she's my best friend's much younger sister and off limits.She is a breath of fresh air.Feisty, sassy, and strong-willed.She's also Brody's younger sister.There's...

From beloved author Mary Connealy comes a delightful Western adventure brimming with danger, laughter, and unexpected romance—a tale of a runaway teacher, a bewildered widower, and five rambunctious boys...

She's his curvy military pen pal turned best friend. He thinks he's way too old for her. Then one kiss in Key West rewrote every rule they ever made.RyleeI never planned on falling in love with my pen...

I have one shot to build a better life—not just for me, but for my little brother still stuck in the dump I escaped from. Now that I’ve gotten to Sovereign Kings University, I have to make it worth it....

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHERE'D YOU GO BERNADETTE'SMART, FUNNY AND DEVASTATING IN A GREAT WAY' JENNETTE MCCURDY'I ADORED THIS NOVEL AND IT MADE ME VERY HAPPY' NINA STIBBE'LOADED WITH MARIA SEMPLE'S...

The Antediluvian Extravaganza's Fortune Teller has spent the last months taking care of a complete stranger, a woman. Gemini was found in the woods, unconscious and left to the elements. The highly traumatized...

Desire is easy. Walking away from it is the real danger.She's known from the start that he isn't her type. Too charming, too careless, too used to women falling at his feet. Introduced through mutual...

The next technology might replace you. Or it might kill you. Alan Harrison is a former insurance analyst struggling to build a new private investigation business with the help of his state-of-the-art...

Violet Dey gets a frantic call from her childhood friend, Fiona Madison. Fiona's husband vanished after a night out. The local sheriff was quick to close the case.But Fiona knows her husband, the good...

She came to Brighton to save her brother—she never meant to steal a king's fortune… or his heart.Charlotte Bathurst has spent years scraping together every spare coin to bring her ailing brother to Brighton,...

In 1989, Xanadu is a place built on second chances. Once a glittering Caribbean hotel for Hollywood's elite, Xanadu is now a quiet refuge run by Cliff Sandalwood and his wife Julia, far from the chaos...

A summer-camp wedding. A serial killer on the loose. And a wedding party trapped in the woods.Allie's once best friend is tying the knot at a nostalgic summer-camp–themed wedding in a remote forest campground....

The golden years just turned deadly.When Tippy Chambers signs Myrtle up for a volunteer shift, Myrtle finds herself at Greener Pastures Retirement Home helping set up a 1950s sock hop. The party is complete...

Fated Consciousness- Fate's Final Battle  is book 7 of the Fates & Mates Series and the Finale.Beneath a savage blood moon on the thinnest Samhain veil in recorded history, the fated mates of the...

She negotiated seventeen treaties. She never expected to become one.When the Ashveil-Solaris Accord demands a political marriage to end a thousand-year war, sun-elf diplomat Caelindra Voss signs on the...

America's food supply has become toxic, and the authorities call on the great investigator Zeb Dasher to solve the case!

Two very different worlds collide when Prince Thomas receives a proposal from the King of Cromwell. Thomas's family is kind, loving, and generous with the family servants, calling some of them their best...

'A lush re-invention of one of the greatest stories of all time' Elle McNicoll'Unique, brilliant and incredibly difficult to put down' Ore Agbaje-Williams***A captivating, funny and devastatingly tender...

Sienna Rubens doesn't wait to be rescued. She drives straight into the enemy's compound with a van full of her signature red-glazed cupcakes, a fully charged phone, and absolutely zero plan to fail. Her...

God Never Leaves Us Alone tells the story of three women linked by the mysterious hand of destiny. An engaging read that reminds us that love and life go on, even in the most extraordinary circumstances.

Sol (short for Soleil) always thought her love life and her Broadway dreams were on two separate tracks—until she finds herself swept into a complicated showmance that's too real to ignore. After a devastating...

A decade of love ended with one vicious fight.When Elsie's brother announces his divorce and their no-nonsense grandmother cuts him from her will, Elsie makes her soon-to-be ex, Petra, a desperate proposal:...

Spring has arrived in Olde Towne—and with it, the promise of fresh starts.Chloe Taroni's first annual pet adoption fair is meant to bring the community together. With her best friend, Janey Cathcart,...

Grugnar has a job: follow a map to a Wizard, don't set anything on fire, and train to learn how to control his magic.Grugnar has a crystal.The crystal likes fire.It also has opinions.When a routine quest...

Claire Donovan wasn't looking for forever—just a laugh. One bored evening, she signs up for CryptidCupid, the supernatural dating site promising "matches to die for." What starts as a joke quickly spirals...

A single photograph.A family's hope.A man caught in between.In a world where tradition clashes with ambition, Nivika dreams of independence, but every step forward seems blocked by expectations she never...

Two weeks until graduation from Kogetsu, every girl seems to be falling over themselves to confess their feelings to Makoto Kawanishi. He's sensitive, the top swordsman of Kogetsu (and from the top-ranking...