The Rose Arbor
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Nicola Barber
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Rhys Bowen
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An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a haunting novel of suspense by the best-selling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Paris Assignment.
London: 1968. Liz Houghton is languishing as an obituary writer at a London newspaper when a young girl’s disappearance captivates the city. If Liz can break the story, it’s her way into the newsroom. She already has a scoop: Her best friend Marisa is a police officer who is assigned to the case.
Liz follows Marisa to Dorset, where they make another disturbing discovery. Over two decades earlier, three girls disappeared while evacuating from London. One was found murdered in the woods near a train line. The other two were never seen again.
As Liz digs deeper, she finds herself drawn to the village of Tydeham, which was requisitioned by the military during the war and left in ruins. After all these years, what could possibly link the missing girls to this abandoned village? And why does a place Liz has never seen before seem so strangely familiar?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Frustrating
- By ESay on 11-20-23
By: Rhys Bowen
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Above the Bay of Angels
- A Novel
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,778
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,460
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,452
Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella’s hand. It’s an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as a lowly servant. In the stranger’s stead, Bella can spread her wings. Arriving as Helen Barton from Yorkshire, she pursues her passion for creating culinary delights, served to the delighted Queen Victoria herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 Star Book!
- By SueS on 02-28-20
By: Rhys Bowen
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Where the Sky Begins
- A Novel
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Emma Griffiths
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,348
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,224
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,218
London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks’ world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie’s beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go. Evacuated to the English countryside, Josie ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host to the survivors of the Blitz. Now a threat looms larger than anyone imagined. And a dangerous secret is about to upend Josie’s life again.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Probably the worst Rhys Bowen book I have read
- By Tony on 08-14-22
By: Rhys Bowen
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The Venice Sketchbook
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,040
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,724
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,705
Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper...Venice. Caroline’s quest: to scatter Juliet “Lettie” Browning’s ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than 60 years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Poor character and storyline development
- By Sasha on 05-19-21
By: Rhys Bowen
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The Victory Garden
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,612
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,274
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,261
As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ridiculously bad
- By mary on 03-23-19
By: Rhys Bowen
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In Farleigh Field
- A Novel
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,058
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,448
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,431
World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. But Pamela has her own secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining and Engaging Storyline
- By RavidReader on 03-05-17
By: Rhys Bowen
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The Tuscan Child
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Katy Sobey
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,695
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,986
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,957
In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal. Nearly 30 years later, Hugo's estranged daughter, Joanna, has returned home to the English countryside to arrange her father's funeral. Among his personal effects is an unopened letter addressed to Sofia. In it is a startling revelation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Knocked this one out of the park
- By Anne on 02-22-18
By: Rhys Bowen
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What Child Is This
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,706
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,546
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,541
Jack and Maggie Harris are adrift on ravaged streets during the London Blitz. Their home is gone. They have nowhere to go and nothing left to lose. With only the memories of their greatest loss - the death of their child during a Christmas years before - Jack and Maggie settle in a seemingly deserted mansion for the night.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A lovely Christmas story!
- By Tamara on 07-18-19
By: Rhys Bowen
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Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
- A Novel
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Surrey, England, 1938. After 30 devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husband’s appeal for divorce. It’s Ellie’s opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. She’s taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper Mavis, and her elderly friend Dora—each needing escape—impulsively head for parts unknown in the South of France.
By: Rhys Bowen
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Masked Ball at Broxley Manor
- A Royal Spyness Novella
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,183
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,902
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,898
At the end of her first unsuccessful season out in society, Lady Georgiana has all but given up on attracting a suitable man - until she receives an invitation to a masked Halloween ball at Broxley Manor. Georgie is uncertain why she was invited, until she learns that the royal family intends to marry her off to a foreign prince, one reputed to be mad.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fun, light prequel
- By CMMV on 01-01-15
By: Rhys Bowen
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Murphy's Law
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,926
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,596
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,602
Molly Murphy always knew she'd end up in trouble, just as her mother predicted. So, when she commits murder in self-defense, she flees her cherished Ireland, under cover of a false identity, for the anonymous shores of late 19th-century America. When she arrives in New York and sees the welcoming promise of freedom in the Statue of Liberty, Molly begins to breathe easier. But when a man is murdered on Ellis Island, a man Molly was seen arguing with, she becomes a prime suspect in the crime.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cream Puff Read
- By Blue on 12-19-13
By: Rhys Bowen
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Evans Above
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,732
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,478
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,475
Evan Evans is a young police constable who has traded in the violence of city life for idyllic Llanfair, a Welsh village tucked far away from trouble. Nestled among the Snowdonia mountain range, Llanfair looks to Constable Evans like a town forgotten by time, but he quickly learns that even the bucolic countryside has its share of eccentric - and deadly - characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting....
- By brian on 01-22-17
By: Rhys Bowen
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The Act of Disappearing
- A Novel
- By: Nathan Gower
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Ashley Klanac
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 380
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 354
Julia White is struggling: her bartending job isn’t cutting it, and her first book has sold hardly any copies. She’s broke, barely able to make ends meet while drowning in her late mother’s medical bills and reeling after a one-night stand with her ex-boyfriend, who’s now completely ghosted her. Enter Johnathan Aster, world-renowned photographer, with a proposal: he has a never-before-seen photograph of a woman falling from a train bridge, clutching what appears to be a baby. And he wants Julia to research the story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful Storytelling! Engaging characters!
- By Renee Miller on 06-01-24
By: Nathan Gower
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Murder at Honeychurch Hall
- By: Hannah Dennison
- Narrated by: Elaine Wise
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 302
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 260
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Story4 out of 5 stars 259
Kat Stanford is just days away from starting her dream antique business with her newly widowed mother Iris when she gets a huge shock. Iris has recklessly purchased a dilapidated carriage house at Honeychurch Hall, an isolated country estate complete with eccentric lords and ladies and butlers and cooks. When a secret from the past comes back to haunt Iris, Kat realizes she hardly knows her mother at all. And when the bodies start piling up, it is up to Kat to unravel the tangled truth behind the murders at Honeychurch Hall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done!
- By Sandra L Bihary-Waltz on 07-05-18
By: Hannah Dennison
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Murder at Little Minton
- By: Karen Baugh Menuhin, Zoe Markham
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 374
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 374
Miss Busby helped Major Heathcliff Lennox solve a series of murders at Bloxford in the Cotswolds. Now, she finds herself drawn into a new murder, but this time, it's just her, and she must rely on her sharp mind and sharper wits to catch a Cotswolds killer, along with a handsome police inspector and a reporter who's keen to make her mark.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I Really Tried
- By Stephanie Lannan on 09-21-23
By: Karen Baugh Menuhin, and others
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Murder at the Grand Hotel
- Lady Caroline Murder Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Isabella Bassett
- Narrated by: Sandra Churchill
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Disgraced society “it” girl, Lady Caroline, has been shipped off to the French Riviera to spend remedial time with gout-impaired Uncle Albert. Her crime? An ill-advised scavenger hunt through London, with social-status-ruinous consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A unique type of Secretary
- By Pinkster on 12-04-24
By: Isabella Bassett
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The Girl from Berlin
- By: Kate Hewitt
- Narrated by: Barbara Barnes
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Berlin, 1936: From her beautiful new home Liesel Scholz barely notices the changes to the city around her. Her life is one of privilege and safety thanks to her father’s job working for the new government. But soon a chance encounter with Rosa, the daughter of their Jewish housekeeper, leaves Liesel in no doubt that something isn’t right. Frankfurt, 1946: An idealistic American captain, Sam Houghton, arrives in Germany to interrogate prominent Nazis on trial and to help rebuild a battered country. He hires an enigmatic and damaged woman named Anna as his interpreter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved the story, embarrassed for narrator
- By Daniela Laws on 03-01-21
By: Kate Hewitt
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A Body on the Doorstep
- London Ladies' Murder Club, Book 1
- By: Marty Wingate
- Narrated by: Naomi Frederick
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 169
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 169
London, 1921: Mabel Canning is proud to be a modern woman working for the Useful Women’s Agency, carrying out tasks for gentlewomen from flower arranging to washing muddy dogs. But when she answers the door for wealthy widow Rosalind Despard, she almost chokes on her cucumber sandwich when she finds a soldier’s body on the doorstep. As she offers tea to the policemen of Scotland Yard, Mabel can’t resist getting drawn into the investigation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By chipardee on 08-23-24
By: Marty Wingate
As terrific as advertised!
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Cannot be the same author as Her Royal Spyness series
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I love WWII Historical fiction. The current formula seems to be two story lines, one during the war and another one more currently. This story follows that formula to good effect.
wonderful narration
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Ghost writer??
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Beautiful story!
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A moving mystery of war time England
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Definitely a Keeper!
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Charming implausible story
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Gripping and emotional
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She delves us into the worlds of characters during WW2 and in the mid 1960’s and makes us care about them.
3 missing girls from 1942. 1 missing girl from 1968. Are they related in any way?
And who is the dead body in the Rose Arbor?
This book is so twisty, yet never descends into the macabre.
Another home run stand-a-lone from Ms Bowen.
WW2 dual timeline mystery at its best.
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