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1. The husbands: a novel

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Author:
Gramazio, Holly
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Description:
"A novel about a woman who one day comes home to find her attic is magic and producing an endless supply of interchangeable husbands"--

2. The Mitford affair: a novel

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Author:
Benedict, Marie
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters-each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next-dominate the English scenes. Though they've weathered scandals before, the family falls into disarray when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and Unity follows her sister's lead all the way to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress. As the Nazis rise in power, novelist Nancy Mitford grows suspicious...

3. Shrines of gaiety: a novel

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Author:
Atkinson, Kate
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven, whose character has been...

4. The silent patient

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Author:
Michaelides, Alex, 1977-
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk or give any kind of explanation turns a domestic tragedy into...

5. The word is murder: a novel

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Author:
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
Series:
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper -- the wealthy mother of a famous actor -- enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes....