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"Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society."--Container.

A collection of interviews with contemporary Londoners from all parts of the city and all walks of life.

When the body of a boy is found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, Inspector Pitt is called to investigate. The boy was clearly upper class, so what was he doing in one of London's most dangerous slums? Before his death, the victim had been violated, a fact that makes it difficult for Pitt to question the boy's friends and family. Nevertheless, Pitt is shocked when the boy's parents refuse to answer police queries.

In the affluent London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable and baffling crime was committed: a young woman was raped and murdered. Once again the incomparable team of Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As the elegant masks of the aristocratic suspects begin to slip, it became appallingly clear that something ugly lurked behind the handsome facades of Paragon Walk - something that could lead to more scandal, more murder.

Two spellbinding mysteries, one contemporary, and one ancient'that will challenge Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as no case ever has. Glastonbury is a town revered as the mythical burial place of King Arthur, and, according to New Age followers, a source of strong Druid power. Something terrible and bloody shattered Glastonbury Abbey's peace long ago'and now it is about to spark a violence that will reach forward into the present.

Stephen Chesterfield, the Earl of Whitmore, cannot recall the past three months of his life---much less that he has a wife. And Emily Chesterfield finds herself trapped in a marriage of convenience to a man who doesn't even remember her. Now, as their romance rekindles, they much face issues of trust and loyalty even as a shadowy villain actively tries to keep the Earl's memories suppressed.

Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis - meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore. The book follows them as they develop from childhood to maturity and follow different passions and ambitions; their voices are interspersed with interludes from the timeless and unifying chorus of nature. Widely regarded as one of Woolf' s greatest and most original works, The Waves conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time

Finding himself the man of the family, London dancing master Alec Valcourt moves his mother and sister to remote Devonshire, hoping to start over. But he is stunned to learn the village matriarch has prohibited all dancing, for reasons buried deep in her past. Alec finds an unlikely ally in the matriarch's daughter. Though he's initially wary of Julia Midwinter's reckless flirtation, he comes to realize her bold exterior disguises a vulnerable soul--and hidden sorrows of her own.

When Thomas Pitt is tasked with playing bodyguard to Sofia Delacruz, a young and controversial British preacher who has been living in Spain and has returned to England on a mysterious errand, he thinks it's a waste of Special Branch's time and resources. But when kidnappers manage to reach Sofia murdering two of her companions in the process. Pitt learns that the message the lovely evangelist was meant to deliver was far more urgent than he knew.

When their father's business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortune. But although they think of many ingenious ways to do so, their well-meant efforts are often more fun than profitable--until one adventure has quite unexpected results.