Download or read book The Body in the Ice written by AJ MacKenzie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A killer is at large and Reverend Hardcastle and Mrs Chaytor are on the case - but with a family feud raging and a vast inheritance at stake, it's going to be a challenge. Will they be able to solve the crime and save the villagers of St Mary from the mur A twisting tale of murder, mystery and eighteenth-century England by a dramatic and gripping new voice in the genre. On the frozen fields of Romney Marsh stands New Hall; silent, lifeless, deserted. In its grounds lies an unexpected Christmas offering: a corpse, frozen into the ice of a horse pond. It falls to the Reverend Hardcastle, justice of the peace in St Mary in the Marsh, to investigate. But with the victim's identity unknown, no murder weapon and no known motive, it seems like an impossible task. Working along with his trusted friend, Amelia Chaytor, and new arrival Captain Edward Austen, Hardcastle soon discovers there is more to the mystery than there first appeared. With the arrival of an American family torn apart by war and desperate to reclaim their ancestral home, a French spy returning to the scene of his crimes, ancient loyalties and new vengeance combine to make Hardcastle and Mrs Chaytor's attempts to discover the secret of New Hall all the more dangerous. The Body in the Ice, with its unique cast of characters, captivating amateur sleuths and a bitter family feud at its heart, is a twisting tale that vividly brings to life eighteenth-century Kent and draws readers into its pages.

Download or read book Doctor Syn written by R. Thorndike and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1970 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dungeness and Romney Marsh written by Antony Long and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2007-09-20 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romney Marsh / Dungeness Foreland depositional complex comprises an extensive tract of marshland and associated sand and gravel barrier deposits, located in the eastern English Channel. This monograph presents the results of a programme of palaeoenvironmental investigation aimed at improving our understanding of this internationally-significant coastal landform. The focus is on the evidence for landscape change during the late Holocene, from c. 3000 BC onwards, and on identifying the local, regional and global driving mechanisms responsible for the changes observed. The research details the results from two related projects, each funded as part of English Heritage's Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund scheme. The first project concerns the late Holocene evolution of the port of Rye, located in the southeast part of the complex, and the second the depositional history of the gravel foreland. Topics explored include the vegetation and land-use history of the study area, methodological issues relating to the collection and interpretation of radiocarbon dates from coastal lowlands, the role of compaction in influencing landscape and sea-level change, and the effects of medieval storms on coastal flooding and landscape change. This monograph is intended for students and researchers interested in Holocene coastal evolution and sea-level change, coastal vegetation history and land-use history, and the development of new techniques for reconstructing past environmental change in coastal lowlands.

Download or read book Romney Marsh written by Jill Eddison and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romney Marsh lies at the frontier between land and sea. It consists entirely of land gained from the sea, and being below the level of high tides, has always been threatened by flooding. Four ports now stranded miles from the sea and another lost to the sea bear witness to great changes in the coastline. The book charts the history of human occupation of a very specialized and difficult environment over the last 2000 years. Advances were made when both environmental and economic conditions were favorable. But when difficulties became insuperable, especially in Roman times and again in the 13th century, the inhabitants retreated. The struggle for survival continues, and the book concludes with the challenges facing the 21st century.

Download or read book Becket s Last Stand Mills Boon Superhistorical The Beckets of Romney Marsh Book 6 written by Kasey Michaels and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romantic saga of the Becket family concludes with this brand-new novel by USA TODAY bestselling author Kasey Michaels

Download or read book What the Monk Didn t See written by Emma Batten and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1287 and yet another storm has hit the Kent coast. The town of Romney is under threat and its people battle to save their homes and livelihoods. A travelling monk, whose quest is to record the lives of people living in coastal towns, sets out to watch the storm from the church tower. From his vantage point, the monk believes he can see all that happens in Romney that night. But as the storm ravages the town and its fortunes are changed forever, what didn't the monk see?

Download or read book The Poison Belt written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing could be done. The thing was universal and beyond our human knowledge or control. It was death for young and old, for weak and strong, for rich and poor, without hope or possibility of escape. Must Professor George Challenger and friends, barricaded in a room, see Earth die? As globe passes through a belt of poisonous ether, terror sweeps mankind; cities riot; communications cease.

Download or read book The Lying Game written by Ruth Ware and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of the “twisty-mystery” (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Turn of the Key comes Ruth Ware’s The Lying Game. Isa Wilde knows something terrible has happened when she receives a text from an old friend. Why would Kate summon her and their two friends to the seaside town where they briefly attended the Salten House boarding school together seventeen years ago? The four friends had quickly bonded over the Lying Game—a risky contest that involved tricking fellow boarders and faculty with their lies. Now reunited, Isa, Kate, Thea, and Fatima discover that their past lies had far-reaching effects and criminal implications that threaten them all. In order to protect their reputations, and their friendship, they must uncover the truth about what really happened all those years ago. Atmospheric and twisty, with just the right amount of chill, The Lying Game will have readers at the edge of their seats, not knowing who can be trusted in this tangled web of lies.

Download or read book Secrets of the Shingle written by Emma Batten and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the nineteenth century draws to a close, Alice arrives at Dungeness to become school teacher at the local school. She is expecting a seaside village with a promenade, sandy beaches and, at the very least, pavements. Instead, she finds herself on a desolate, windswept, shingle headland unlike any place she has ever been. All too soon, she stumbles upon a dying woman and is haunted by her inability to help her. Not knowing who to trust and trapped within the inhospitable landscape, Alice is determined to find out who the woman was and what had happened to her

Download or read book Romney Marsh written by Jill Eddison and published by Oxford University School of Archaeology. This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume recording the recent researches into the origins and history of the marsh. The papers are: The Debatable Ground (Michael Tooley), The Morphology and Evolution of Denge Beach and Marsh (Andrew Plater & Antony Long), Palaeoenvironmental Investigation of the Midley Sand at Midley Church Bank (A Long and Jim Innes), The Proposed Northern Course of the Rother (Martin Wass), The Field-walking Evidence (Anne Reeves), the Medieval Houses of the Marsh (Sarah Pearson), Survey of the Ruins of Hope All Saints (Maureen Bennell), Agricultural Policy in the Age of the Great Storms, 1250-1320 (Anthony Gross and Andrew Butcher), Medieval Salt-Making and the Inning of the Tidal Marshes at Belgar, Lydd (Eleanor Vollans), Medieval Farming and Flooding in the Brede Valley (Mark Gardiner), Impact of Marshland Drainage art Rye Harbour 1550-1650 (Stephen Hiptkin), Attempts to clear the Rother Channel 1613-1624 (Jill Eddison), Drainage of Romney Marsh and the Maintenace of the Dymchurch Wall in the early 17th cent (Dorothy Beck).

Download or read book A Gentleman By Any Other Name written by Kasey Michaels and published by Kathryn Seidick. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beckets More than a decade ago, the Beckets, an insular family of accumulated orphans and their patriarch, Ainsley, established themselves in an enormous, nearly fortress-like mansion they constructed on the wild and beautiful coast of Romney Marsh. Nobody bothered them, and they invited no one into their orbit. A Man With A Mission The oldest orphan is Chance Becket, once a pickpocket and wharf rat on an island near Jamaica, now transported to the wilds of Romney Marsh. Determined to forget who he was in favor of the man he is determined to become, he departs Romney Marsh for the society of London and a convenient position in the War Office. Now widowed, with a young daughter, he’s ordered to return to his home to ferret out the smugglers who may be aiding Napoleon Bonaparte. The Curious Miss Carruthers Newly hired governess Julia Carruthers is eager to escape the confines of London. Yet the excitement of the journey to Chance’s strange home is nothing compared to her attraction to this complicated man. But when Julia sees something she should not, she wonders if Chance's romantic intentions are prompted by ungentlemanly desire or his need to protect his family's secrets...

Download or read book A Most Unsuitable Groom written by Kasey Michaels and published by Kathryn Seidick. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware the reluctant bridegroom... Spencer Becket was only eight when he arrived in Romney Marsh as part of the mysteriously displaced Becket family. The son of a seaman and a mother who’d died in childbirth, he grew up longing to be a soldier. His adoptive father reluctantly purchased him a commission, and Spence was off to fight in America, chockfull of passion and ideals. He returned home older, perhaps wiser, but also with one small patch of his memory inconveniently missing. Beware the compromised bride... Mariah Rutledge is the daughter of a British officer killed during a losing battle, and she joins other women and children forced to flee into the swampy forest to avoid capture. For long weeks, she helps care for one of the few wounded soldiers that managed to reach safety. She calms him when he cries out in delirium, presses her body close to his, to warm him as he shivers in the damp chilly nights. He becomes her reason to stay alive, alone, in the wilderness. It is highly possible for a woman in those circumstances to make an emotional mistake. Beware the flames... At Becket Hall, alternately battling and loving each other, Spencer and Mariah unexpectedly discover what appears to be a plot to restore the recently vanquished Napoleon to power in a most unusual way. A deadly way. Bound by the secrets that are all that keep the Beckets safe, Spencer and Mariah must battle the world and their own devils in order to prevent a tragedy ... but will the price for this victory be their very lives?

Download or read book The Return of the Prodigal Mills Boon Superhistorical The Beckets of Romney Marsh Book 7 written by Kasey Michaels and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the nightmare of battle... Being in the care of lovely Lisette, who tended to his every need, helped Rian Becket to forget the horrors of war – although his intuition led him to believe there was more to the seductress than she revealed...

Download or read book The White Riders written by Monica Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Romney Marsh near Hastings, Meryon, Roger, Rissa and Tamzin are upset to learn the marsh they love is to be turned into a holiday camp, and the Merrow family to be thrown out of the farm they have lived in for decades. When the children learn of the legendary White Riders, smugglers who once rode the marsh disguised as ghosts, this seems a perfect weapon to combat the idea of a holiday camp."--www.goodreads.com.

Download or read book Salt Lane written by William Shaw and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "excellent," darkly-told crime novel in the tradition of Tana French and Ian Rankin (Wall Street Journal). Sergeant Alexandra Cupidi is a recent transfer from the London metro police to the rugged Kentish countryside. She's done little to ingratiate herself with her new colleagues, who find her too brash, urban, and -- to make matters worse -- she investigated her first partner, a veteran detective, and had him arrested on murder charges. Now assigned the brash young Constable Jill Ferriter to look after, she's facing another bizarre case: a woman found floating in local marsh land, dead of no apparent cause. The case gets even stranger when the detectives contact the victim's next of kin, her son, a high-powered graphic designer living in London. Adopted at the age of two, he'd never known his mother, he tells the detectives, until a homeless womanknocked on his door, claiming to be his mother, just the night before: at the same time her body was being dredged from the water. Juggling the case, her aging mother, her teenage daughter, and the loneliness of country life, Detective Cupidi must discover who the woman really was, who killed her, and how she managed to reconnect with her long lost son, apparently from beyond the grave.

Download or read book Romney Marsh written by Romney Marsh (England). and published by . This book was released on 1686 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Life on Marsh written by Andy Holyer and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niko's enthusiastic pursuit of folklore, myths, and all the things that help to make the Universe the amazing place that it is, melded with the evocative images of Andy Holyer, brings to life the legend and lore of Romney Marsh. Niko lives in Kent with his wife Rachel and sons Robert and Jonathan. His career has spanned from being a leading designer of microchips to being a purveyor of fish and chips. His hobbies include megalithic engineering (building full size stone circles), chainsaw carving, silversmithing and mushrooms. Andy was born in Lydd and, following a protracted sojourn in Yorkshire, returned to live in the town with partner Jenny and an unquenchable obsession with local history. His vibrant and colourful paintings cast a unique and uncompromising light on the history and culture of Romney Marsh. Together, Andy and Niko have produced a book that reflects the character of the Marsh itself - whimsical, provoking; a place of wide open skies and dark secrets; where light and colour can as soon give way to impenetrable mist and shade. What more likely guides to lead us on a journey through the mysteries and magic of the 'sixth continent'?