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Ghost Story
(Hardcover)
Barbara Cooper
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R914
R792
Discovery Miles 7 920
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Soon to be a new HBO Series from J.J. Abrams, Misha Green and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out)
Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George – publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide – and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite – heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors – they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.
At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn – led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb – which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his – and the whole Turner clan’s – destruction.
A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism – the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.
Site of a silver mine in late 1900s Town destroyed by fire Today a
ghost town
A debut historical mystery set in Victorian London's first - and now forgotten - Chinatown. As Pearl Fitzgerald fights for justice to find the killer of a murdered Chinese docker, she unexpectedly falls in love with the victim's sister. All the while, the murderer is preparing to strike again...
Pearl Fitzgerald arrives in Limehouse - London's very first Chinatown - to settle her late father's affairs and claim her inheritance. But when she unwittingly finds herself at the scene of a murder, her plans are thrown off course. Even more so by the alluring Mei, sister to the dead man. Utterly infatuated, Pearl promises Mei that she will bring her brother's killer to justice, and she dives into the East End's criminal underworld.
But in the city of smoke and silk, where cultures clash and the hangman's noose is always waiting, the truth comes at a cost. With each step of the investigation Pearl risks her livelihood, her relationship with Mei, and her life. Because the killer will strike again, and they're already hunting for the next victim . . .
Opium smuggling, murder and unexpected romance meet in this historical thriller for fans of Leonora Nattrass, Laura Shepherd-Robinson and Sarah Waters.
A female spymaster will face mortal danger to protect her husband
and her queen. . . Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey is recruited by Queen
Elizabeth I's spymaster to be lady-in-waiting to Lady Mary, a
cousin of the queen who is being courted by Russia's Ivan the
Terrible. However, there are some nobles at court who will do
anything they can to thwart such an alliance and Rosamond must put
herself in mortal peril to protect her ward . . .
"When Ursula Blanchard's neighbour is murdered, she is once again
involved with matters of espionage and affairs of state"
July, 1573. Recently widowed, Ursula Blanchard is living a quiet
life on her Surrey estate, caring for her infant son. But her
peaceful existence is shattered when Ursula's neighbour Jane
Cobbold is found dead in her own flowerbed, stabbed through the
heart with a silver dagger - and Ursula's manservant Brockley is
arrested for the crime. Determined to prove Brockley's innocence,
Ursula seeks help from her old mentor Lord Burghley. But when a
second death occurs and the queen's new spymaster, Francis
Walsingham, gets involved, once again Ursula is reluctantly drawn
into matters of espionage and affairs of state.
Having been inveigled into standing for the local curia,
responsible for the submission of all local tax, Libertus discovers
that any shortfall must be made good by the councillors themselves.
So when news arrives that a tax-collector from a nearby outpost has
committed suicide, having gambled everything away, Libertus is
despatched to make enquiries, in the hope of recovering at least
some of the missing revenue. He has also been asked to attend a
wedding, in place of his patron, who is expecting a visit from an
Imperial Legate. But the assignment which should have seen Libertus
for once treated as an honoured guest begins to take grisly and
unexpected turns. As he pieces together the unlikely truth,
Libertus finds himself in mortal danger. Freedom, in all forms, is
only relative - but there is a high price for it, sometimes paid in
blood .
Richard Nottingham confronts an old enemy in the latest intriguing
historical mystery 1734. When a young country lad requests the
Constable's help in finding his sister who has run away to Leeds to
seek her fortune, Nottingham is not optimistic. Such girls usually
end up as prostitutes - or worse. The following day, the young man
is found dead, his throat slit. The evening before his death, the
victim had been seen in deep conversation with career criminal Tom
Finer in the Bell Inn. Could there be a connection to his murder?
Why has Finer returned to Leeds after a seventeen-year absence? And
what really happened to the young man's sister? Then a second body
is discovered floating in the River Aire - and Nottingham finds
himself plunged into a murder investigation where nothing is as it
seems.
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