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Lakewood, Ohio
Amid the shrouded parlors of Victorian London, two daring women hunt for truth and justice in the perilous art of conjuring the dead. When they team up with the London Séance Society, they begin to suspect that they are not merely out to solve a crime but entangled in one themselves. The London Séance Society is an entrancing tale that explores the blurred lines between truth and illusion.
Jack and her husband test corporate security. Coming back from a job, she discovers him brutally murdered and ends up on the run from the police. She is determined to track down the real killer no matter what it takes.
Alexander Ilych Rostov is an aristocrat sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal to a lifetime of confinement in the luxury hotel. While the country he once knew transforms outside his door, the Count undertakes his own transformation in a decades-long quest for freedom.
One bright spring day in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead. She planned her own funeral. But did she arrange her own murder?
Cordelia Gray is tough, intelligent and the proprietor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment is to investigate the death of a student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. She delves into family secrets and soon realizes it is not a suicide but something more sinister.
A captivating fantasy novel set in a world constantly threatened by catastrophic geological events. It follows the story of three women with extraordinary powers, exploring themes of oppression, prejudice, and the resilience of the human spirit.
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke. Zeke is a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother's unhappy house and is as lonely and awkward as Frankie is.
The novel follows Alex Armstrong, an investigator for a law firm whose work on a rape scandal at a university draws her close to her traumatic past. She was once Alexandra Quinlan and was wrongfully accused, though exonerated, of the brutal murder of her parents and brother.
The Girl with the Louding Voice is a 2020 coming of age novel and the debut of Nigerian writer Abi Daré. It tells the story of a teenage Nigerian girl called Adunni who becomes a maid and struggles with many things growing up, including her limited education, poverty and the inability to speak up for herself.
Twenty years ago, Charlie’s mother went missing near the family beach shack. Now he’s back living in the shack, on disciplinary leave from his police job. Then the skeletal remains of two people are found in the excavation of a building site—and the past comes crashing in on Charlie.
After losing her son, Tova Sullivan takes a night cleaning job at an aquarium. There, she forms an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus who becomes her confidant. Together, they unravel the mysterious decades-old disappearance of her teenage son, with Marcellus proving to be surprisingly intelligent and helpful in connecting the dots of […]