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1) High dive
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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Description
-- New York Times In September 1984, a bomb was planted at the Grand Hotel in the seaside town of Brighton, England, set to explode in twenty-four days when the British prime minister and her entire cabinet would be staying there. High Dive A bold, astonishingly intimate novel of laughter and heartbreak, High Dive is a moving portrait of clashing loyalties, guilt and regret, and how individuals become the grist of history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"From the award-winning, best-selling author comes a rollicking novel with a dark undertow, set around three unforgettable individuals and a doomed movie set. A producer. A novelist. An actress. It's summer 1968--a time of war and assassinations, protests and riots. While the world is reeling, our trio is involved in making a disaster-plagued, Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the movie shoot zigs and...
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Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a page turning, epic family saga centering on three generations of women in one Russian Jewish family-each striving to break free of fate and history, each yearning for love and personal fulfillment-and how the consequences of their choices ripple through time.
Odessa, 1931. Marrying the handsome, wealthy Edward Gordon, Daria-born Dvora Kaganovitch-has fulfilled her mother's...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Constable Twitten investigates the death of a famed theater critic who was murdered before he could deliver information about an unsolved crime.
"It's 1957, and the famed theater critic A. S. Crystal has come to the British seaside resort of Brighton with something other than the production of A shilling in the Meter on his mind. Sitting in the Brighton Theatre Royal with Constable Twitten, Crystal intends to tell the detective the secret he knows...
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From the bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things and The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes - a novel of mothers and daughters, families and secrets, and the astonishing power of friendship. Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who liked playing with ghosts and matches. She loved fizzy drinks, swear words, fish fingers and Catholic churches, but most of all she loved living in Brighton in Queenie Malone's magnificent Paradise Hotel with its endearing...
6) The servants
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"A hefty lot for any author to manage, but Smith does it both subtly and charmingly." - Santa Fe New Mexican on THE SERVANTS
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Madame Burova, beloved Tarot reader, palmist, and clairvoyant, is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront. After inheriting her mother's fortune-telling business as a young woman, Imelda Burova has spent her life on the Brighton pier practicing her trade. She and her trusty pack of Tarot cards have seen the lovers and the liars, the angels and the devils, the dreamers and the fools. Now, after a lifetime of keeping other people's secrets,...
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Series
Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Description
In Brighton, England, in 1811, when the wife of an aging marquis is found dead in the arms of the Prince Regent, wearing an ancient necklace with mysterious ties to Sebastian St. Cyr, Sebastian turns sleuth to investigate the woman's death.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons--who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children, although their precise location on the family tree is still a mystery--from their accursèd fate. Her...
10) Dead like you
Author
Series
Roy Grace novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Detective superintendent Roy Grace is forced to delve into his shattered past when a series of rapes take place that bear remarkable similarities to an unsloved case from 1997.
11) The Unmapped Sea
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
For fans of Lemony Snicket s Series of Unfortunate Events and Trenton Lee Stewart s Mysterious Benedict Society, here comes the fifth book in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, the acclaimed and hilarious Victorian mystery series by Maryrose Wood.Lord Fredrick Ashton may not feel ready to be a father, but with a little Ashton on the way, he s sure about one thing: the wolfish curse on his family must end soon, before the child is born. Penelope...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
It is clear that nothing is as it seems when Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to investigate the suicide of a woman in Brighton. As his inquiries continue, a handsome motivational speaker living in the area comes forward. He's discovered his identity is being used to scam eleven different women who are looking for love online. The first he knew of it was a phone call from one of them out of the blue. That woman is now dead. Roy Grace realizes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Not long after arriving at the English resort of Brighton, Jane finds herself caught up in the town's turmoil when the body of a beautiful young society miss is discovered, lifeless, in the bedchamber of none other than George Gordon--otherwise known as Lord Byron.
14) Need you dead
Author
Series
Roy Grace novels volume 13
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage from hell, falls for the charms of another man who promises her the earth. But, as Lorna finds, life seldom follows the plans you've made. A chance photograph on a client's mobile phone changes everything for her. When the body of a woman is found in a bath in Brighton, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to the scene. At first it looks an open and shut case with a clear prime suspect. Then...
15) Left you dead
Author
Series
Roy Grace novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the case of a missing woman in Brighton. Is this Roy Grace's most challenging case yet? A mystery that is leaving him totally confounded for the first time in his career. Most Sundays, Niall and Eden Paternoster like to go for a drive and visit country houses. She likes to look at them, he likes to dream that one day . . . However, most weeks they also end up bickering about something or other. This...