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A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd
Category: Fiction
In the dying days of 1850 the young detective Charles Maddox takes on a new case. His client? The only surviving son of the long-dead poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary, author of Frankenstein. Charles soon finds himself being drawn into the bitter battle being waged over the poet's literary l ...Show more
A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd
Category: Fiction
In the dying days of 1850 the young detective Charles Maddox takes on a new case. His client? The only surviving son of the long-dead poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary, author of "Frankenstein". Charles soon finds himself being drawn into the bitter battle being waged over the poet's literary ...Show more
Clarissa : or The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson; Sheila Ortiz Taylor (Introduction by); Lynn Shepherd (Afterword by)
Category: Classics | Series: Signet Classics
One of the first great British novels, Samuel Richardson's classic tale became a legend to his own age and remains so today. Defying her parents' desire for her to marry a loathsome man for his wealth, the virtuous Clarissa escapes into the dangerous arms of the charming rogue Lovelace, whose intent ...Show more
Murder at Mansfield Park by Lynn Shepherd
Category: Fiction
A superb retelling of the Jane Austen novel in which the house at Mansfield Park becomes the scene of one murder after another and our meek heroine Fanny Price is recast as a forthright, ambitious, scheming and downright untrustworthy gold digger ...
Murder at Mansfield Park by Lynn Shepherd
Category: Fiction
'...a clever retelling of the classic, seamlessly blending Austen's original dialogue with her own, while introducing the new character of Charles Maddox, a "thief taker"...' Good Reading '...for those looking to relive the pleasures of Austen, rather than see them savaged.' Sunday Age Murder at Mansfie ...Show more
The Solitary House by Lynn Shepherd
Category: Fiction
Lynn Shepherd's first acclaimed novel of historical suspense, "Murder at Mansfield Park, "brilliantly reimagined the time of Jane Austen. Now, in this spellbinding new triumph, she introduces an unforgettable duo of detectives into the gaslit world of Dickens. London, 1850. Charles Maddox had been an up ...Show more
Tom-All-Alone's by Lynn Shepherd
Category: Crime and Thrillers
London, 1850. Fog in the air and filth in the streets, from the rat-infested graveyard of Tom-All-Alone's to the elegant chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where the formidable lawyer Edward Tulkinghorn has powerful clients to protect, and a deadly secret to hide. Only that secret is now under threat fro ...Show more
Tom-All-Alone's by Lynn Shepherd
Category: Fiction
The story of "Tom-All-Alone's" takes place in the 'space between' two masterpieces of mid-Victorian fiction: "Bleak House" and "The Woman in White" - overlapping with them, and re-imagining them for a contemporary reader, with a modern understanding of the grimmer realities of Victorian society. Charles ...Show more
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