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Scribner
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2011
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English
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Former Kingsmarham Chief Inspector Wexford is called out of retirement to help London detectives investigate when an underground chamber in a London home is opened to reveal four bodies--one of which was unexpected--but as Wexford follows the trail of clues to the murders committed decades before, a family tragedy brings him back to Kingsmarham, where he finds his role as investigator transformed into that of a victim.
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When Stuart Font decides to throw a house warming party in his new flat he invites everyone in his building. The party will be one everyone remembers; but not for the right reasons. Living opposite, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman, christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a terrible spell on the occupants of Lichfield House.
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Chief Inspector Wexford and his team of police officers race against time to learn the identity of a group of environmental terrorists who have kidnapped and are threatening to kill five hostages, one of whom is Wexford's wife, Dora.
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The lives of three people--Francine, a child who hears her mother's murder while hiding in her room; Harriet, an aging beauty who seeks out handymen to ease her boredom; and Teddy, a young man who had been ignored by his parents since birth--converge with harrowing results.
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Chief inspector Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo's short, muscular figure. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk. Years earlier, Targo stalked and taunted Wexford, daring him to press charges after a woman was found strangled in her bedroom. Over the years there are more unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town, and Wexford suspects that the...
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Scribner
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2014
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English
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"Mystery novel about friendship, love, and aging. Synopsis: In the wanting months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood. Throughout the summer of 1944--until one father forbids it--the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden," where the friends play games and tell stories. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal...
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