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The Lady Thief of Belgravia

The Lady Thief of Belgravia
  • Author(s): Allison Grey
  • Location(s): Belgravia, London
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1870s

A notorious thief joins up with Belgravia’s most eligible gentleman to steal for Queen and country… London, 1879. Della Rose scans the crowds until she finds her target. A well-dressed gentleman with a fine gold watch. Stealing it will...

The Lake House

The Lake House
  • Author(s): Kate Morton
  • Location(s): London, Polperro
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century to present

A missing child . . . June 1933, and the Edevane family’s country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not...

The Lamorna Reach

The Lamorna Reach
  • Author(s): Joy V Sheridan
  • Location(s): West Indies, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of 18th-19th Centuries

The Lamorna Reach presents a Zola-esque tableau of raw, elemental life in Cornwall at the time of the Napoleonic wars. Issy Penhalligan, the heroine, is incredibly beautiful and talented, but these qualities do not secure her a happy, comfortable...

The Land in Winter

The Land in Winter
  • Author(s): Andrew Miller
  • Location(s): The West Country
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1962

December 1962, the West Country. In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills. In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets,...

The Lantern Men

The Lantern Men
  • Author(s): Elly Griffiths
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home and partner, and is no longer North Norfolk police’s resident forensic archaeologist. That is, until convicted murderer Ivor March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal....

The Last Affair

The Last Affair
  • Author(s): Margot Hunt
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Love may be blind, but obsession’s a real killer. Nora Holliday is not that kind of woman. Not the kind who has an illicit affair with a married man. But Josh Landon is everything Nora’s alcoholic husband isn’t. And...

The Last Bookshop in London

The Last Bookshop in London
  • Author(s): Madeline Martin
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939-1940

August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and blackout curtains that she finds on her arrival were not what she expected....

The Last Dress from Paris

The Last Dress from Paris
  • Author(s): Jade Beer
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2017 / 1952

Each Dior dress tells a story… London, 2017. When her beloved grandmother, Sylvie, sends her to Paris to retrieve a dress she wore decades before, Lucille sees the perfect opportunity to briefly escape the pressures of her own life....

The Last Enchantments

The Last Enchantments
  • Author(s): Charles Finch
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he’s poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind,...

The Last Garden in England

The Last Garden in England
  • Author(s): Julia Kelly
  • Location(s): Highbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1907, 1944, Present Day

A tale of five women living across three different times (1907, 1944, present day), connected by a special garden at Highbury House estate and the secrets it holds.

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