Let's start with the premise, a book about the Tudors that isn't about Henri and his six wives or Elizabeth. I'm sold! The Reluctant Queen tells the story of Mary Tudor, Henri's younger sister. If you were a fan of Showtime's The Tudors, Mary's character is part of the series throughout season o...
# ? Lafferty/Llewelyn Police seriesSomehow this series book set in a London police precinct ended up on my PBS wish list and I finally got it, not realizing it was a series book. It was a good mystery, with a dazed and bloody young woman stumbling into a police station confessing to have just st...
I had one very big problem with this book. After receiving it for review, I discovered it is tenth in a series so now, after reading it, I have to go get the first nine. Because I want to know everything about the whole Rafferty clan. The book is just the right balance of police procedural and hu...
Librarian note: alternate-cover edition of B00C0B2EE2. ’Nuns!’ Lapsed Catholic DI Joe Rafferty was dismayed that his latest murder investigation should centre around the local RC Convent, where a body had been discovered in a shallow grave. The nuns' order was an enclosed, contemplative one, an...
When Chandra Bansi and her baby are burnt to death, the police are anxious to get their race relations right. DCI Casey and his less than politically correct sergeant rapidly come under pressure from their superintendent to put a couple of skinhead thugs behind bars. But there are other, stranger...
A Rafferty and Llewellyn mystery novel.Third in the critically-acclaimed mystery series.The murder of internationally-renowned palmist cum astrologer, Jasper Moon, has DI Joe Rafferty wishing he had a seer's vision.
They had also questioned the cook, Mrs Benton, who had got on her high horse when Rafferty had asked her if she had any idea how hemlock might have found its way into either Ainsley’s vichyssoise soup or his chicken salad. ‘That food was perfectly all right when it left my kitchen,’ she had insis...
He was late. He'd arranged to meet Llewellyn at the family's business premises at three o'clock. It was already ten past. He hurried out to the car park, got in the car and put his foot down once out of the station gates and into Bacon Lane. L’oiseau was housed in an elegant Edwardian mansion out...
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Although, along with the rest, Francis had signed up to the League, he broke away from it and attacked the domains of the Emperor. Charles V promptly called upon England to honour her treaty obligations and declare war on France, and Henry, his instincts for war-mongering as finely-honed as Franc...
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