Lady Emily Ashton mysteries
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Author
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Accepting a dashing viscount's marriage proposal as part of a plan to escape her overbearing mother, Emily finds herself widowed early after her marriage and subsequently learns that her husband was not who he professed to be, a discovery that prompts an investigation in the quiet corridors of the British Museum.
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Making her way through a Victorian London season in spite of gossip about a self-proclaimed descendant of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, as well as the audacious thefts of several valuable objects that once belonged to the historic queen, Lady Emily Ashton finds herself targeted by a would-be killer who has murdered a fellow socialite.
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Description
Emily finds herself in an untenable position when her efforts to prove her friend Ivy's husband Robert Brandon did not kill his mentor, the odious Lord Fortescue, put her own fiance's life in danger, forcing her to bargain with her nemesis, the Countess von Lange.
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Series
Lady Emily Ashton mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Looking forward to the joys of connubial bliss, newlyweds Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves set out toward Turkey for an exotic honeymoon. But on their first night in the city, a harem girl is found murdered-strangled in the courtyard of the Sultans lavish Topkapi Palace. Sir Richard St. Clare, an Englishman who works at the embassy in Constantinople, is present and recognizes the girl as his own daughter who was kidnapped twenty years earlier. Emily...
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Lady Emily Ashton mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Recovering at her mother-in-law's estate in Normandy after a brush with death, Lady Emily Hargreaves discovers a murder victim whose death looks like the act of Jack the Ripper, a killing that compels her to follow clues to the medieval city of Rouen in search of a lost child.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Red paint splashed on the doors of prominent London residents presage the revelation of scandalous secrets, driving the victims into disgrace, despair, and even death. Lady Emily Hargreaves and her husband Colin, recently returned to their home in Mayfair, must uncover the person responsible before another life is lost.
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2012]
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Entreated for help by a childhood nemesis who has been wrongly accused of murder, Lady Emily launches an investigation in Venice that takes her from elegant palazzi to slums, libraries, and bordellos before she links the crime to a centuries-old puzzle.
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The counterfeit heiress: a Lady Emily mystery , Lady Emily Ashton mysteries volume 9
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Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Emily and husband Colin have come to the French Riviera for what should be a joyous occasion - the engagement party of her lifelong friend Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge, and Amity Wells, an American heiress. But the merrymaking is cut short with the shocking death of one of the party in an apparent suicide. Not convinced by the coroner's verdict, Emily must employ all of her investigative skills to discover the truth and avert another tragedy"--
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Edition.
Description
"Lady Emily retreats to her villa on the island of Santorini for a brief respite from London. But when she arrives, the housekeeper informs her that the master of the house has returned--Emily's first husband who died a decade earlier.."--
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Minotaur Books
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"After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night's performance. But outside the scene is somber. A ballerina's body lies face down in the snow, blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen. The crowd is silenced by a single cry-- "Nemetseva is dead!" Amongst the theater goers is Lady Emily, accompanying her dashing husband Colin in Russia on assignment...
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Lady Emily Ashton mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"In Uneasy Lies the Crown, the thrilling new mystery in Tasha Alexander's bestselling series, Lady Emily and her husband Colin must stop a serial killer whose sights may be set on the new king, Edward VII. On her deathbed, Queen Victoria asks to speak privately with trusted agent of the Crown Colin Hargreaves, slipping him a letter with her last, parting command: Une sanz pluis. Sapere aude. "One and no more. Dare to know." The year is 1901 and the...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020 .
Edition
First edition.
Description
"In skillfully intertwined storylines from the dawn of the twentieth century and the heyday of the Roman Empire, Tasha Alexander's bestselling series brings Lady Emily and her husband to Pompeii, where they uncover a recent crime in the ancient city. Some corpses lie undisturbed longer than others. But when Emily discovers a body hidden in plain sight amongst the ruins of Pompeii, she sets in motion a deadly chain of events that ties her future to...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"In 1903, tensions between Britain and Germany are starting to loom over Europe, something that has not gone unnoticed by Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves. An agent of the Crown, Colin carries the weight of the Empire, but his focus is drawn to Italy by a series of burglaries at his daughter's palazzo in Florence--burglaries that might have international ramifications. He and Emily travel to Tuscany where, soon after their arrival, a stranger...
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"In Secrets of the Nile, Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves, have joined his formidable mother on a holiday to visit the exotic treasures of Egypt. Their host, Lord Bertram Deeley, is a renowned amateur British collector of antiquities, who has invited his closest friends on a lavish cruise up the Nile to his home at Luxor. But on the first night of their journey, he suddenly collapses after offering a welcome toast, a victim of the lethal...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Lady Emily, husband Colin Hargreaves, and their three sons eagerly embark on a family vacation at Cairnfarn Castle, the Scottish estate of their dear friend Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge. But a high-spirited celebration at the beginning of their stay comes to a grisly end when the duke's gamekeeper is found murdered on the banks of the loch. Handsome Angus Sinclair had a host of enemies: the fiancée he abandoned in Edinburgh, the young woman who had...