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Rumpole rests his case (Rumpole mysteries)
Par John Mortimer. 2002
Horace Rumpole, one of the finest barristers ever to defend a client, weaves his way elegantly among the intricacies of…
the courtroom and the human heart, only to find that the advancing years catch up with even the most indomitable spirit. 2002. (Rumpole mysteries)Rumpole and the golden thread (Rumpole mysteries)
Par John Mortimer. 1991
Horace Rumpole, whom the nation has taken to its collective bosom, who continues to untie the knots in the English…
law and the contradictions of the human heart in his death-defying performances on behalf of justice, is back on form in another collection of short stories. 1991. (Rumpole mysteries)Rumpole (Rumpole mysteries ;)
Par John Mortimer. 1980
Rumpole is the oldest Junior in Chambers, a barrister who never prosecutes, is apt to quote poetry, and has a…
wife known as "She Who Must Be Obeyed". The stories in this collection were previously published as "Rumpole of the Bailey" and "The Trials of Rumpole". 1980. (Rumpole mysteries)Rumpole and the angel of death (Rumpole mysteries)
Par John Mortimer. 1996
Six mysteries featuring Horace Rumpole. In one case, Rumpole defends an animal-rights activist who clashes with fox hunters. In another…
a doctor is accused of hastening the end of an Alzheimer's patient. And "She Who Must Be Obeyed," i.e., Hilda Rumpole, recounts his defence of a young boy charged with using a golf club to beat his father to death. 1996. (Rumpole mysteries)Rumpole a la carte (Rumpole mysteries)
Par John Mortimer. 1990
Rumpole and the reign of terror (Rumpole mysteries)
Par John Mortimer. 2007
British barrister Horace Rumpole takes on the government when he accepts the case of a Pakistani doctor accused of aiding…
Al Qaeda. He also alienates his colleagues, his wife Hilda, and other clients, while he battles his own doubts. Meanwhile Hilda writes her memoirs. c2006, 2007. (Rumpole mysteries)Rumpole of the Bailey (Rumpole mysteries)
Par John Mortimer. 1978
Rules of an engagement (Avon historical romance)
Par Suzanne Enoch. 2010
Captain Carroway loves the seafaring life, though he'd rather be battling brigands than ferrying a boatload of spoiled aristocrats. One…
passenger has caught his eye: Miss Zephyr Ponsley, who has traveled the world, but is completely innocent in the ways of love. She's never learned to dance or flirt, but scientific observation has taught her that the laws of attraction have no rules, and that no adventure is more dangerous than passion. Bestseller. Includes sex and violence. 2010.Rough justice (Rosato And Associates Ser. #Bk. 3)
Par Lisa Scottoline. 1997
Attorney Marta Richter has argued persuasively on behalf of her client, Elliot Steere, who is charged with murdering a homeless…
man. But as they wait for the verdict, arrogant millionaire Steere lets it slip that it wasn't self-defence after all. Knowing she is risking her life, Richter attempts to gather last-minute proof that Steere is guilty. Strong language and violence. c1997.Rosa's dilemma (Romance Ser.)
Par Michael Underwood. 1990
Solicitor Rosa Epton has vowed never to work with Malcolm Palfrey again, yet here she was, helping him defend a…
young couple charged with malicious damage. He was elusive as she prepared the case, culminating in his non appearance on the day of the trial. Then Palfrey was discovered on a park bench with a bullet in his brain and a revolver beside him. Was it suicide or murder? 1990.Revelation (Shardlake series. #4.)
Par C. J Sansom. 2008
King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled…
Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Matthew Shardlake, meanwhile, is working on the case of a teenage boy, a religious maniac locked in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. When an old friend is horrifically murdered Shardlake promises his widow, for whom he has long had complicated feelings, to bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to both Cranmer and Catherine Parr - and with the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation. Sequel to "Sovereign" (DC38179). 2008.Regina
Par Clare Darcy. 1976
Red sky at night
Par Jane Aiken Hodge. 1978
It is 1811, and in England the long war with Napoleon has brought poverty, hunger, and the threat of rebellion.…
Against a background of conspiracy, arson and riot, Kate, a fiery beauty with a taste for danger, confronts unexpected hardship when her father commits suicide and she and her mother are forced to leave their home. 1978.Ransom my heart (The princess Diaries)
Par Meg Cabot. 2009
England, 1291. Finnula Crais helps her unwed, pregnant sister obtain a dowry by kidnapping a knight for ransom. But Finnula…
doesn't realize that her captive is the village's earl, Hugo Fitzstephen, who is returning from the Crusade. Treachery awaits them. 2009.Rachel (Springwater seasons. #2.)
Par Linda Lael Miller. 2017
Rachel English has traveled to Springwater to take a post as the frontier teacher. Although the ramshackle schoolhouse--and her half-wild…
pupils--are not what she had envisioned, Rachel spiritedly makes the best of her new surroundings. But when she takes a stand against the scandalous saloon across the road from the school, she is more than surprised by her own powerful attraction to the bar's part-owner, handsome widower Trey Hargreaves. The father of a beautiful part-Lakota Sioux girl, Trey appears to be everything that Rachel, with her proper Eastern upbringing, should avoid. When Rachel's fiance died during the Civil War, she turned her passions to teaching, and closed a door in her heart. Now Trey, with his troubled past, is the only man who can soothe her hidden sorrow, and give Rachel a chance to embrace the love of a lifetime. Sequel to "Springwater", followed by "Savannah". 2017.Quand l'ouragan s'apaise: roman (J'ai lu pour elle ; #772.)
Par Kathleen E Woodiwiss, Monique Thies. 1974
Quand ce jour viendra: roman
Par Claude Michelet. 2008
Après Quelque part dans le monde, C. Michelet raconte la suite des aventures de Sylvestre Neyrat et de la journaliste…
Terry Finnegan, aux Etats-Unis en 1916. A l'annonce de la déclaration de guerre, Sylvestre rejoint l'escadrille des Cigognes de Guynemer et s'illustre dans les combats aériens. De son côté, Terry se réfugie dans le travail pour son groupe de presse de Boston.Prédestinés (J'ai lu pour elle ; #9428.)
Par Kathleen Givens, Patricia Lavigne. 2011
" Nous nous reverrons, Eileen ! " promet Neil MacCurrie à celle qui lui a permis de fuir le cachot…
de Ronley Hall. Fidèle au roi en exil, Neil s'oppose à Guillaume d'Orange, l'usurpateur. De retour dans son fief de Torridon, où l'attend son frère jumeau Jamie, il ne peut oublier Eileen qui lui a sauvé la vie au péril de la sienne. Il la retrouvera à la cour de Londres, où il apprend qu'elle serait la petite-fille du roi Charles et pourrait prétendre au trône. Ce qui, en pleine guerre de succession, fait d'elle une femme à abattre. Livre comportant des passages de nature sexuelle et de la violence. Prix Rita de la meilleure romance historique, 2003. 2011, c2003. Titre uniforme: The destiny.Prairie moon
Par Maggie Osborne. 2003
Texas. Della Ward has been widowed for ten years when lawman James Cameron arrives to explain to her how her…
husband died in the Civil War. Once they meet, James - who has carried Della’s picture for a decade - knows the truth may destroy them both. 2003.Practice to deceive (Golden chronicles. #1st v.)
Par Patricia Veryan. 1985
Romantic adventure set in Georgian England in 1746 when the rebel Jacobites are on the run. Young Penelope Montgomery loses…
her heart to Quentin Chandler, a fugitive Jacobite. Followed by "Journey to enchantment" (DC09108). 1985. (Golden chronicles ; book 1)