LecClier's April/May TBR
My TBR for Nicole's April/May swap.
List created by LecClier K. (SierraK) -, on Mar 27, 2017
List Votes: 1 Books: 18 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Closed
List created by LecClier K. (SierraK) -
List Votes: 1 Books: 18 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Closed
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The Silver Pigs (Marcus Didius Falco, Bk 1) by Lindsey Davis
When Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman “informer” who has a nose for trouble that’s sharper than most, encounters Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately all is not right with the pretty girl. She confesses to him that she is fleeing for her life, and Falco makes the... more
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by The Co...
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes?s Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of... more
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A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Bk 2) by Laurie R. K...
The dawn of 1921 finds Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes's brilliant young apprentice, about to come into a considerable inheritance. Nevertheless, she still enjoys her nighttime prowls in disguise through London's grimy streets, where one night she encounters an old friend, now a charity... more
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A Play Of Dux Moraud (Joliffe, Bk 2) by Margaret Frazer
Performing at the wedding of Sir Edmund Deneby's daughter, the player Joliffe has another task to perform--as a spy. As he uncovers the secrets of the Denebys' sordid history, it becomes clear that this wedding celebration is destined to end in tragedy.
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The Apothecary Rose (Owen Archer, Bk 1) by Candace Robb
Once the king's captain of archers, now he must penetrate a poisoner's secrets...
Christmastide, 1363-and, at an abbey in York, two pilgrims die mysteriously dead of an herbal remedy. Suspicious, the Archbishop sends for Owen Archer, a Welshman with the charm of the devil, who's lost one eye... more
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Shinju (Sano Ichiro, Bk 1) by Laura Joh Rowland
When beautiful, wealthy Yukiko and low-born artist Noriyoshi are found drowned together in a shinju, or ritual double suicide, everyone believes the culprit was forbidden love.
Everyone but newly appointed yoriki Sano Ichiro. Despite the official verdict and warnings from his superiors, the... more
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The Golden Egg (Guido Brunetti, Bk 22) by Donna Leon
Over the years, Donna Leon's best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has conquered the hearts of lovers of finely-plotted character-driven mysteries all over the world. Brunetti, both a perceptive sleuth and a principled family man, has exposed readers to Venice in all its aspects:... more
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In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with... more
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Mary, Called Magdalene by Margaret George
Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute, a female divinity figure, a church leader, or all of those? Biblical references to her are tantalizingly brief, but we do know that she was the first person to whom the risen Christ appeared-and the one commissioned to tell others the good news, earning her the... more
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Some Danger Involved (Barker & Llewelyn, Bk 1) by Will Thomas
An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar in London's Jewish ghetto. When the eccentric and enigmatic Barker... more
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Spring Snow (Sea of Fertility, Bk 1) by Yukio Mishima
The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility.
Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders -- rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality... more
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What Angels Fear (Sebastian St. Cyr, Bk 1) by C. S. Harris
It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a... more
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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel
More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the Westering experiences of American women are... more
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These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881 - 1901 (Sarah Agnes Prine, Bk...
A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has... more
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Murder on Waverly Place (Gaslight, Bk 11) by Victoria Thompson
Sarah Brandt is not completely surprised when her very proper mother asks her to attend a seance. She knows that Mrs. Decker still carries great guilt over the death of her older daughter, Maggie. So Sarah accompanies her and the spiritualist does seem to contact Maggie -- convincing Mrs. Decker... more
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A Toast to Murder (Wine Lover's Mystery, Bk 6) by Michele Scott
The big day is swiftly approaching for Nikki Sands--Manager of the Malveaux Estate in Napa Valley--and her fiance, Derek Malveaux, who owns the winery. But when they start receiving cryptic messages questioning their belief in fate, things quickly turn fatal...
As the wedding grows... more
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Dangerous Alterations (Southern Sewing Circle, Bk 5) by Elizabeth Lynn Casey
Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair has finally found a place to call home, thanks to the Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle. But when her past comes back to haunt her, will her tight-knit group of friends be able to keep her safe?
When Tori accompanies the circle's feisty... more
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Murder on Lenox Hill (Gaslight, Bk 7) by Victoria Thompson
A midwife working in the tenements of turn-of-the-last-century New York, Sarah Brandt is summoned by the wealthy Lintons to confirm their worst fear: their teenaged daughter is with child. It's a mystery, however, since the young woman-mentally still a child herself-is never left alone.
With... more