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A Cotswold industrialist vanishing off the face of the earth, a heat-affected widow on her first vacation, a female archaeologist encountering a secret Brotherhood.Cairo, June 1896Lady Catherine Lowther is simply irresistible. But when Catherine announces her cousin Imogene must vacation with her at the famous Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, Imogene fights the ludicrous proposal with tooth and nail.Finally, back in her own house in Landdulton and still mourning Thaddeus, her constable husband, all Imogene wants is to be left alone. But does she really?Cairo is hot, hoity-toity, and hazardous. As Imogene soon finds out. Jam-packed with British officers, aristocrats, and self-made millionaires. The last persons she expects to run into are Mr Ralph Herriot, the opulent Dartmond industrialist, and his self-important wife, Winnifred.Until Ralph Herriot mysteriously disappears at the Pyramids of Giza and a hysterical Winnifred begs Mrs Lynch to find her husband for her.What history do Catherine and Mr Herriot share? And does Imogene want to know? And how is it possible that a second Mr Herriot seems to be at the Dartmond factory, as usual?Far away from home and without her constable husband to assist her, Mrs Imogene Lynch must tap into all her detective knowledge and skills to solve the peculiar vanishing act of Mr Ralph Herriot.

A presumed dead baby who's just turned fifty, a grieving widow on a mission, a female haberdasher hiding a scandalous secret.The Cotswolds, England, December 1895Fifty-year-old Imogene Lynch has recently moved to the tight-knit community of Dartmond after her husband passed away.In the decades of her husband's job as chief constable of the neighboring Landdulton, the childless Imogene often assisted him in solving seemingly unsolvable crimes. On his deathbed Thaddeus Lynch has one last request to his wife: solve the secret Christmas baby's mystery.Overcome by grief, but with the promise as a stamp on her heart, Imogene sets out in her roundabout way to unearth Sir Finley Lowther's mysterious origins. The first trace leads to Miss Eloise Platt, a well-respected Dartmond shopkeeper.But when a baby's skull is dredged up from the bottom of Tiverstock Lake and Miss Eloise confesses to the murder, Mrs Imogene Lynch faces a stalemate. While the Dartmonders squabble over Miss Platt's fate, the widow-turned-detective worries she'll never fulfil her promise.To break through her impasse, she pays a visit to the elderly Lady Lowther in Ridgeview Asylum with far-reaching consequences. For Imogene, the mystery is now solved, but getting Miss Platt to tell the truth is another matter.With her characteristic quirky style, Mrs Lynch confides in the most unlikely candidate in her arsenal, her landlord, Mr Richard Hopewell. If the mute bookkeeper can shed light on what he witnessed on that fateful Christmas Day in 1845, she has the ally she needs to confront Miss Platt.After fifty-one years, Constable Thaddeus Lynch's brown file on the Secret Christmas Baby can be closed for good. With Finley's adoption mystery solved and Miss Platt redeemed, all Dartmond joins in the merry 1896 Christmas celebrations.This first book in the Victorian Cozy Mystery Series introduces Mrs Imogene Lynch, a willy-nilly detective who talks too much and eats too little.

"I have loved every minute reading this series. The Norwegian Assassin captivated my mind and heart. So little is told about the struggles of Norway during WW2. And combined with Esther's search for the family, it gave a heart wrenching insight into what it was like to be a Jewish survivor of the Nazi reign of terror."-Amazon ReviewerHer family's gone. Her fiancé taken from her. Esther Weiss sees only one way to fight back.Vienna, 1938Esther Weiss has her whole life planned out. She is to be married to her wonderful fiancé Carl Bernstein, and their future together looks as bright and beautiful as the Austrian landscape. But when Hitler annexes her home country, everything changes. The wedding is postponed indefinitely, and the Weiss family's life is uprooted.When the treatment of Austrian Jews becomes unbearable, the family flees north. Their hope for safety in Oslo is short-lived when Hitler also invades Norway, and the Quisling puppet regime is put into place.Esther returns home one day to discover her entire family has been deported. Gone. Without a trace.Something inside Esther breaks; the soft-hearted, gentle girl transforms into a vengeful warrior. She joins the Norwegian Resistance movement and uses her blond hair and light eyes to procure a false passport; enough to grant her freedom - the freedom to kill.No German or Norwegian fascist is safe when Esther is nearby. Destroying those who took her family gives Esther a license to live, but it also hardens her heart and no one, not even Tore Ringdal-her protector in the Resistance-can break through the walls she has built around herself. Now all she has loved is gone, and only hate remains, will the Norwegian Assassin find a way to open her heart again?The Norwegian Assassin is spellbinding story of love, loss, and courage in Norway's darkest of times. Esther's tale will stay with you long after you finished reading. An unputdownable WW2 novel for fans of The Alice Network, The Nightingale and The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

Paris, 1939The most sought-after woman in the French Resistance.War is coming, but Océane Bell is focused on her studies. She enrolls at Sorbonne Medical School in Paris and begins working at a local hospital, and keeps out of politics.That is until she meets Jean-Jacques Riveau. He is a passionate and talented artist. But when the Nazis take Paris, Jean-Jacques abandons his art to join the Resistance movement.Océane tries to stay out of it, but when Jean-Jacques is arrested by the Gestapo, she has to do something. Dieter Von Stein, the cruel, enigmatic head of the Paris Gestapo, is in need of a personal physician. Océane sees her opportunity and takes it, figuring she'll be able to use her new position to find out where her lover is being kept and rescue him.Her new boss, however, has other plans...for Jean-Jacques and for Océane. A dangerous game ensues, and there can only be one winner.Can Océane outsmart Dieter Von Stein? Or will the game be up for both her and her lover?

"In Picardy's Fields is one of this best WWI novels I've ever read. I especially like the emerging role of women in the military and in the medical field. Great characters, great settings, and great story."-Amazon ReviewerFrance, 1918Two women. A doctor and a spy. And the deadly Great War that never seems to end.Agnès Agnès de Saint-Aubin, a Parisian baroness and Sorbonne-educated doctor, is the first female surgeon deployed on the frontlines. Together with the attractive but married American doctor Alan Bell, Agnès saves as many soldiers' lives as possible in a war hospital at Château de Dragoncourt in Picardy.When the Château is captured by the Germans, Agnès' secret puts her staff and patients at risk, and the war for her turns personal. With her life on the line, will Alan be able to keep her safe?MadeleineAs a brave young woman determined to make a difference, Madeleine de Dragoncourt escapes her Swiss finishing school to join her siblings at Château de Dragoncourt.When she discovers her home is overrun by the German army, she disguises herself as a man and sets out to save her family and friends from captivity. But can one young girl outwit a powerful enemy?Agnès de Saint-Aubin and Madeleine de Dragoncourt will stop at nothing to save their loved ones and protect their people. As strong women they defy their traditional role and fight side-by-side with their male counterparts. In Picardy's Fields is the WW1 prequel to the gripping and heartbreaking WWII novels in The Resistance Girls Series. The stories of the daughters of the WW1 mothers. Book 2 and onwards tell their tales of love, loss, and liberty. But above all, the courage it took to stand up to the Nazis and hold on to hope in that second deadly War. A captivating historical fiction series set in 20th Century Europe.