Download or read book Marjory Fleming written by Oriel Malet and published by Persephone Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel based on fact about the child prodigy who lived in Scotland from 1803-11.
Download or read book Marjory s Book written by Marjorie Fleming and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Marjory Fleming, a little girl who lived in the east of Scotland in the early part of the nineteenth century. Between the ages of seven and eight she kept a journal into which she poured her thoughts on every subject that took her fancy.
Download or read book The Complete Marjory Fleming written by Marjorie Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected writings of an early19th-century Scottish child, Marjory Fleming, b.1803, d.1811.
Download or read book Bad Blood written by Aline Templeton and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marnie Bruce has hyperthymesia; she can remember everything she has ever seen. Everything except from one fateful night when she was eleven; she woke up in an isolated cottage with a head injury and her mother gone. Twenty years later Marnie heads back to Scotland seeking answers to what happened, but in the small town of Galloway, her mother's disappearance still burns in the air and Marnie's return looks set to tear open old wounds for many of the locals.
Download or read book The Darkness and the Deep written by Aline Templeton and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling and suspenseful tale, perfect for fans of Susan Hill and Elizabeth George. A lifeboat crashes on the shore of a small fishing village, leaving all three of its passengers dead. A tragic accident—perhaps—but Detective Marjory Fleming is not so sure … The steep decline of the fishing industry has brought a new and bustling drug trade to town. Were the victims in over their heads? Or was this the work of a person so determined to kill one of the crew that he took two innocent lives? The depressed, impoverished community is clamoring for justice, and Fleming is determined to unravel the mystery before the body count rises.
Download or read book Evil for Evil written by Aline Templeton and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sea-cave on Lovatt Island, just off the west coast of Scotland, a skeleton is found shackled to the rocks. A victim of unparalleled brutality, the skeleton seems to belong firmly in the past, and DI Marjory Fleming anticipates a straightforward case. But when a modern watch is discovered on the skeleton's wrist, Fleming realises the crime may be far closer to home. Meanwhile, a series of escalating crimes arise in the nearby village of Innellan. The villagers, with their own enigmatic pasts, are reluctant to speak out. Fleming, sensing a pattern she cannot clearly discern, becomes increasingly desperate to prevent more violence. Are the skeleton and the current spate of crimes connected? If so, what evil act could have motivated such a deadly, merciless design?
Download or read book Devil s Garden written by Aline Templeton and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When DCI Kelso Strang hears that an old friend from his police college days suspects there is corruption in her local station at Halliburgh in the Borders of Scotland, he sends her undercover so they can act before a major scandal erupts. What he doesn't expect is that this will have to take a back seat to an extraordinary series of events that unfold as revenge for a long-concealed and ugly secret takes its tragic course. Just as the situation becomes critical, the Beast from the East roars in bringing chaos and Strang can do nothing but rage and wait for the thaw.
Download or read book Dead in the Water written by Aline Templeton and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This moody and arresting thriller is perfect for fans of Tana French. The young victim was pregnant, her body washed up on the rocks. Twenty years on, the murder remains unsolved; her father is now dead, and her mother refuses to talk about what went on all those years ago. Detective Marjory Fleming is called in to reopen the case that her late father, a policeman, was unable to put to rest. As Fleming digs deeper, it becomes clear that her father struggled to keep secret some of the shameful details surrounding the young girl's death. Can she handle the truth she will unearth, not just about her father but about herself?
Download or read book Human Face written by Aline Templeton and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beatrice Lacey is passionate about Human Face, the charity for Third World children she helped to found, and its co-founder Adam Carnegie. She has learned to turn a blind eye to some strange goings on, however; parties for donors who don't seem the philanthropic type and a merry-go-round of 'housekeepers'. It's best not to think about that. But when the latest housekeeper, Eva, suddenly disappears, the police and DI Kelso Strang are called in.Keen to move on from recent personal horrors, Strang revels in the responsibility the investigation affords, as a former sniper, he has no problems with making solitary decisions. But when he and the team make some fatal errors, Strang has his work cut out to avoid the case ending in disaster and death.
Download or read book Cold in the Earth written by Aline Templeton and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2009-11-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the critically acclaimed DI Marjory Fleming series. 'An unalloyed pleasure - an intelligent, character-driven crime novel' Andrew Taylor Death is in the air. Death is on the ground. Death is everywhere for the people of Galloway. As a catastrophic virus devastates the Scottish countryside, killing cattle and destroying lives, a body is discovered in a dug-up field. Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming finds herself at the stormy heart of a troubled, trapped community. Thousands of miles away in New York, Laura resolves to unearth the dark secrets of her past. Determined to find the truth about her older sister's disappearance fifteen years ago. A dead body, a missing girl, and a mysterious family's dangerous obsession with bull running provide a sinister backdrop to DI Fleming's first murder investigation. And as the cold shadow of death looms ever larger over this quiet corner of rural Britain, one thing becomes clear: it won't be her last.
Download or read book Earth and High Heaven written by Gwethalyn Graham and published by Cormorant Books. This book was released on 2003-08-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Erika Drake, of the Westmount Drakes, met and fell in love with Marc Reiser, a Jew from northern Ontario, their respective worlds were turned upside down. Set against the backdrop of the first three years of the Second World War, Earth and High Heaven captured the hearts and minds of its generation and helped to shape the more diverse and inclusive culture we have today. Published in 1944, this classic novel was very timely; it spoke of the prejudices of its time, when Gentiles and Jews did not mix in society. Earth and High Heaven was the most successful novel of its time, winning many awards and prizes, including the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1945 (an award founded to reward books that exposed racism or explored the richness of human diversity). It was translated into eighteen languages and the film rights were purchased by Samuel Goldwyn for a remarkable $100,000. Earth and High Heaven was the first Canadian novel to top the New York Times bestseller list for the better part of a year.
Download or read book Rab and his Friends written by John Brown and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book Old Sins written by Aline Templeton and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The crime czar of the Scottish small town!' Val McDermid On a clear moonlit night, DI Kelso Strang hears the spine-chilling howl of a wolf. It is not the only unsettling thing he discovers about the remote village of Inverbeg. Sean Reynolds, obsessive about rewilding his estate, is rumoured to have taken steps to hurry it on, to the anger of the local farmers. And then there are the whispers about an elderly lady, burdened with ugly secrets, who died some months before. Her best friend believes she was murdered. When fresh horror strikes Inverbeg, Strang feels that further retribution is at work, but as the ground keeps shifting under his feet he faces his biggest challenge yet.
Download or read book Letters from Menabilly written by Dame Daphne Du Maurier and published by Orion Media. This book was released on 1994 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menabilly was the du Maurier house in Cornwall.Oriel Malet has published the letters she received from Daphne over a 30-year span with links of her own thoughts.
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Download or read book Expiation written by Elizabeth Von Arnim and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book There Were No Windows written by Norah Hoult and published by Persephone Books. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains three 'acts' which describe what happens to 'Claire Temple' in her last months.
