england

Two bachelors pretend to be the nonexistent Ernest Worthing to dodge family duties and responsibility for minor wrongdoings, but their plan begins to unravel when they start courting two young women and all arrive at the same country home for a weekend.

An epistolary novel about a teenage servant in eighteenth-century England who tries desperately to keep her virtue as her master tirelessly attempts to despoil her. Includes an introduction, bibliography, Richardson chronology, and notes.

Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they--and Grace--know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories--From publisher description.

When the body of 15 year old Natalie Ouspensky is found strangled near a public park in Stansfield, England, Detective Inspector Judy Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd have their work cut out for them. For Natalie wasn't quite the innocent her mother believes, and her classmates at Oakland School guard Natalie's secrets, and their own, like life itself. Then a shred of evidence points Hill and Lloyd in the right, and decidedly deadly, direction.

When the owners of a struggling detective agency are found asphyxiated in their car, Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd rejects the majority opinion that they committed suicide. And his theory, that they were murdered, becomes even more likely when the doomed couple's one client, wealthy Mrs. Angela Esterbrook, is found shot to death.

England's Inspector Lloyd investigates the role--if any--of a hapless young ex-con in two new crimes, including the murder of the mother of his underage lover.

Presents the annotated 1983 Clarendon edition of Thomas Hardy's nineteenth-century story of a young woman who finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England, and includes critical reviews and interpretations, seven poems by Hardy, and other reference materials.

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the death of vicar and the mysterious woman who met him on the night he died.

Dennis Luxford's past catches up with him when he receives an anonymous note demanding that he admit to fathering the daughter of an up-and-coming politician who refuses to allow the information to be made public.

Vacationing at the seaside while recuperating from injuries, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers arranges to have herself assigned to an investigation into the murder of a Pakistani immigrant that has exploded into full scale racial incident.