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- Sally Lockhart
series4 books1985
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Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart quartet follows a resourceful, unconventional heroine navigating Victorian London - a sharpshooting, mathematically gifted young orphan who builds an improbable career as a financial consultant against the era's expectations for women. The Ruby in the Smoke opens with Sally investigating her father's death and a mysterious jewel; the following novels widen out into fraud, opium-trade crime, and international intrigue, tracking Sally's evolving relationships, including with the journalist Daniel Goldberg, across four Victorian-set mysteries.
- Fire, Burn!
John Dickson Carrstandalone novel1957
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Fire, Burn! is a 1957 historical mystery novel by John Dickson Carr. Carr considered this one of his best impossible crime novels.
- Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
series26 books1991
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Outlander is a series of historical fantasy novels by American author Diana Gabaldon. Gabaldon began the first volume of the series, Outlander, in the late 1980s; it was published in 1991. She has published nine out of a planned ten volumes. The ninth novel in the series, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, was released on November 23, 2021.
- The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club
series3 books2017
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- Checquy Files
series4 books2012
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The Rook opens Daniel O'Malley's Checquy Files with Myfanwy Thomas waking up with no memory, surrounded by dead bodies and a letter from her former self explaining that she runs a secretive British agency defending the country from supernatural threats. She has to reconstruct her identity and hunt a traitor inside the organization while keeping up appearances at a job she can no longer remember how to do. The premise of paranormal bureaucracy and espionage continues across the rest of the Checquy novels.
- Great North Road
Peter F. Hamiltonstandalone novel2012
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Great North Road is a science fiction novel by Peter F. Hamilton. It was first published in 2012 by Macmillan. Jonathan Wright of SFX magazine said, "Peter F Hamilton’s latest novel may be a standalone tale, but it’s a thuddingly imposing 1,100 pages in length. Not that it seems that way when you’re reading it. Balancing a multi-stranded plot, different exotic locales and a huge cast of characters, Hamilton plunges us straight into a murder mystery set in a near-future Newcastle, a city now adjacent to a portal to another world, the tropical St Libra."
- Castle Barebane
Joan Aikenstandalone novel1976
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Near the top of a three-hundred-foot crag perched a roofless ruin with crumbling battlements and shattered buttresses....Apart from the ruined castle there seemed to be no other sign of human life, unless you counted a couple of fishing boats well out to sea.... Val Montgomery, young, warm-hearted, and confident -- but no lady, according to the grande dames of New York in the 1880's -- had abandoned a promising job on a newspaper and a claustrophobic engagement to a society lawyer and sailed to England to help her spendthrift half-brother, Nils, whose Scottish heiress wife, Kirstie, had fallen ill. Arrived in a London terrorized by a series of lurid murders, Val can find no trace of Nils or Kirstie. Horrified, she discovers that her small nephew and niece seem to have been callously abandoned in a London slum. Seeking a safe domicile for the children, Val travels to Edinburgh, intending to leave them with their mother's old nurse at Ardnacarrig, the family home on the Scottish coast -- but she soon begins to doubt that old Elspie is the loving guardian she had hoped for. In the quest for her brother, Val encounters four men destined to change her life forever: Lord Clanreydon, slated as England's next prime minister -- a man of mysterious origins and enigmatic habits; Sir Marcus Cusack, an editor who befriends her; Davie, a brilliant young Scottish doctor; and Mungo, an old sailor. Soon the apparent peach of Ardnacarrig (known as Castle Barebane by the locals) is threatened by dark emanations from London's underworld, and Val begins to apprehend that it might be better for all if Nils were never seen again. But her realization comes too late. Guilty and innocent alike are whirled in a wild eruption of violence as events more quickly to a terrifying climax in a savage confrontation between the forces of good and evil on the cliffs of Ardnacarrig. In this, her most compelling and suspenseful novel to date, Joan Aiken has created a variety of memorable characters: from the deserted children and their hostile great-aunt, the Marchioness of Stroma, to cab drivers and sailors, London clubmen and music-hall singers.
- Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
Kim Newmanstandalone novel2011
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Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by Kim Newman.
- The Night of the Ripper
Robert Blochstandalone novel1984
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Night of the Ripper is a 1984 novel written by American writer Robert Bloch.
- Greg Mandel
series5 books1993
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Greg Mandel is a former special-forces soldier with a psychic 'gland' implant for reading emotions, working as a private investigator in a near-future Britain recovering from an authoritarian climate-crisis government. Peter F. Hamilton's original trilogy - Mindstar Rising, A Quantum Murder, The Nano Flower - follows his cases as ordinary detective work keeps sliding into conspiracies with much bigger stakes; The Suspect Genome revisits an older Mandel decades later. It was Hamilton's first fiction, blending noir detective plotting with hard SF.
- The Lady in the Loch
Elizabeth Ann Scarboroughstandalone novel1998
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From the back cover of the Ace mmpb: "As sheriff of Edinburgh, budding author Walter Scott witnesses a grisly discovery. Bones, bodies, and parts of bodies are found on the banks of the half-frozen loch. At first, Scott assumes that the horror is the work of grave robbers. Then living women begin to go missing. The town takes little notice - for the missing women are gypsies, with no settled kin. But a young gypsy named Midge Margaret makes the vanishings the talk of the town, telling of a black coach traveling the snow-shrouded forest. When it appears, women disappear. Scott is haunted by the mystery, and when Midge asks for help, he accepts. The solution, he will find is perilously close at hand. For there is a method to the madness of the killings - a method forged by the blackest of magic..."
