Charles Todd

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

A Bess Crawford Mystery

Though the Great War has ended, Bess Crawford finds herself caught in deadly circumstances on a remote Welsh headland in this tenth entry from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author.

The fighting has ended, the Armistice signed, but the war has left wounds that are still agonizingly raw. Battlefield Nurse Bess Crawford has been assigned to a clinic for amputees, and the Welsh patients worry her. She does her best to help them, but it's clear that they have nothing to go home to, in a valley where only the fit can work in the coal pits. When they are released, she fears that peace will do what war couldn't--take their lives.

Their officer, Captain Williams, writes to describe their despair, and his own at trying to save his men. Bess feels compelled to look into their situation, but the Army and the clinic can do nothing. Requesting leave, she quietly travels to Wales, and that bleak coal mining village, but she is too late.

Captain Williams' sister tells Bess he has left the valley. Bess is afraid he intends to kill himself. She follows him to an isolated, storm-battered peninsula--a harsh and forgotten place where secrets and death go hand in hand. Deserted by her frightened driver, Bess is stranded among strangers suspicious of outsiders. She quickly discovers these villagers are hiding something, and she's learned too much to be allowed to leave. What's more, no one in England knows where she is.

Why is there no Constable out here? And who is the mysterious Ellen? Captain Williams and his brother's widow are her only allies, and Bess must take care not to put them at risk as she tries to find answers. But there is a murderer here who is driven to kill again and again. And the next person in his sights is Simon Brandon, searching for Bess and unaware of his danger. . . .

A Forgotten Place

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#hardcover #wales #Britlit #juvenilelit #childrens #propaganda #nuclearpower #nukes #energy #pronuclear 

Yes, this copy of the book is in terrible shape outside. The cover is trashed. Inside, the book is clean and in much better shape (pages are lightly browned with age). But it may still be worth a buck because it's such a laughably blatant case of energy industry propaganda, targeting children! Yup, coal (an industry with tremendous cultural/historical significance in Wales) is out, and nuclear energy is in. The use of "the Welsh dragon" as the vehicle for the coercive messaging is particularly blatant and unsubtle. 

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Tecwyn, Last of the Welsh Dragons

Nebraska

Dianna, Princess of Wales

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Rhode Island

Teifi Valley Coroner 2

Harry Probert-Lloyd, a young barrister forced home from London by encroaching blindness, has begun work as the coroner of Teifi Valley with the clerk John Davies as his assistant. His fears that life back in Wales will be dull soon prove unfounded as his old friend and rival - now known to be a killer - comes back to haunt him.

In Two Minds

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#mystery #detective #cozymystery #elizabethduncan #pennybrannigan #wales #louisepenny #mcbeaton #british #agatha

Alabama

A Penny Brannigan Mystery

Murder is for Keeps, the latest book in an award-winning mystery series, celebrated for its small-town charm and picturesque Welsh setting, starring amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan.

Local artist Penny Brannigan has been spending her summer painting Gwrych Castle and its surrounding landscapes. A privately owned, castellated Welsh country house, Gwrych has been sadly neglected for decades and is in a heartbreaking state of disrepair. So when she learns architectural historian Mark Baker is leading a team of enthusiastic volunteers to restore the castle grounds and gardens to their former grandeur, Penny is thrilled.

But it's not long before disagreements over the restoration turn deadly, and Penny is horrified to discover the body of a volunteer hidden in a castle outbuilding. Penny enlists her friend Gareth Davies, recently retired from the North Wales Police Service, to help investigate. As the two dig deeper into the castle's history, including its glamorous heyday in the 1920s, they find startling connections between an old, unsolved murder and Gareth's own family, and as they solve the present-day murder, Penny recovers a stunning piece of the castle's architectural heritage.

Murder Is for Keeps

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Lisa Jackson

Louisiana

Against the lush background of the ancient Welsh Border Lands, Garrick Maginnis turns to raven-haired beauty Morgana for help in finding his son, but the two soon discover that they share a raging passion.

Enchantress

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Simon Mawer

A mesmerizing story about falling in love, falling from a mountain and the tangled lives of two fatherless children.  

Minnesota

A Novel

- Simon Mawer is increasingly recognized as "a world-class novelist" (Christian Science Monitor) whose fiction appeals to readers of Ian McEwan, Peter Carey, A. S. Byatt, Michael Ondaatje et al.- A compulsively readable love story that's sure to be popular with reading groups.- Hardcover ISBN: 0-316-09780-2

The Fall

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Mild cover smudging, almost like new, clean and smoke free; #recipes #cookbook #wales #travel #welsh #paperback #nonfiction 

Virginia

Darn Bach O Gymru

A Slice of Wales

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#paperback #novel #storytelling #family #20thcentury #rurallife #fiction #homestead #Wales #familyfiction

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

A complex family with a tortured secret, the Hamers live on a large homestead in Radnorshire, Wales. Idris, the unbending patriarch and tyrant of the family, is a man suspicious of any change. Etty, his indomitable wife, is a woman born into a world unequipped to deal with her. Oliver, their only son, is a junior boxing champion turned hellraising local legend. A novel concerned both with the huge changes of 20th-century rural life, and that life in its eternal details.

Addlands

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New crime series. Book 1 in the Mallory Dawson series. Not yet released in the US. Who is the Birthday Girl?

Welcome to Eldey, an island with deadly secrets. Mona: a carefree artist, staying at the Cloister to work on her illustrations. Beth: the harried mother of a toddler, on the remote Welsh island for a weekend with her family. Charlotte: a reluctant stepmother who wanted a romantic getaway with her husband. One of them is a serial killer who poisoned four of her friends at her eleventh birthday party. They all fit the profile. Who will risk everything to kill again?

The Birthday Girl ***New Crime Series*** Mallory Dawson Book 1

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Rhys Bowen

A few spine creases and light shelf wear. In great overall read condition.

North Dakota

Constable Evans hears that the young thug who murdered his father is accused of murder again. But when Evan comes face to face with the boy, he finds a scared young man who may be innocent. Martin's Press.

Evan Only Knows

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Some spine creases and light shelf wear. In really great overall read condition.

THE FIRST CONSTABLE EVANS MYSTERY! Constable Evan Evans expected the idyllic Welsh village of Llanfair to be a calm oasis far away from the violent crime of the big city—until a string of murders puts every charming eccentric under suspicion... Little Llanfair has its share of characters—two ministers vying for the souls of their flock, one lascivious barmaid, and three other Evanses: Evans-the-Meat, Evans-the-Milk, and Evans-the-Post. But before Evan—now knows as Evans-the-Law—can enjoy Llanfair's tranquillity, he's called to the scene of a crime as brutal as any in the big city. Two hikers have been murdered on the trails of the local mountain, and now Evan must hunt down a vicious killer in a town where one of his lovable new neighbors could prove to be deadly...

Evans Above

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Spine creases, otherwise in Like New condition

Welsh Constable Evan Evans plumbs the past and present to search for connections between two troubling crimes in the eighth novel in this “consistently satisfying mystery series.”* Evans has found the most delightful shepherd’s cottage. At the moment it’s just four stone walls with gaping holes for doors and windows...but what a view! But as Evans attempts to seal the deal, duty calls. A five-year-old has vanished from a seaside caravan park—and Detective Constable Evans must consider all the suspects. There’s the child’s estranged father, who may want to spirit her back to his native Russia—and the German tourists in a hurry to flee the scene. Evans wonders if the abduction is related to the disappearance of another girl, twenty-five years ago—especially since that girl’s relatives have just returned to Wales for a family reunion. Now, as he and his fiancée try to rebuild their dream house, he must also build a difficult case against a possible double murderer...

Evan's Gate

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Anne Perry

Arizona

Two Victorian Christmas Mysteries

Here are two holiday mysteries set in remote, snow-covered regions of Victorian Britain–where the nights are indeed silent but all is not calm, and where some will sleep in eternal peace.

A CHRISTMAS BEGINNING
While spending Christmas on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, Superintendent Runcorn of Scotland Yard, a lonely bachelor, stumbles upon the lifeless body of the vicar’s younger sister in the village churchyard. Everyone insists that only a stranger to the island could have committed the heinous crime, but the evidence proves otherwise. Intending to uncover the identity of the ruthless killer, Runcorn never dreams that the case may also, miraculously, open the door to a new future for himself.

A CHRISTMAS GRACE
With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt’s sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt on the western coast of Ireland. Emily soon discovers that painful memories of an unsolved murder haunt the lonely Irish town and sets out to unmask the culprit. When a lone shipwreck survivor washes up onshore, he brings with him not only the key to solving the terrible crime but the opportunity for the townspeople to make peace with the past–and with one another.

Anne Perry's Silent Nights

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#christmas #wales #island #crime #romance #family

Missouri

In A Christmas Beginning, Scotland Yard's Superintendent Runcorn's Wales coast holiday is interrupted by the murder of a local woman, while in A Christmas Grace, Thomas Pitt's sister-in-law, Emily, is summoned to a coastal Ireland town that is haunted by a cold-case murder. Original.

#hardcover #mystery #wales #pennybrannigan 

Michigan

A Bloody Words Light Mystery 2014 Finalist

Spa owner and habitual amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan finds herself at a clerical conference at Gladstone's Library in North Wales. Also attending as a guest speaker is her boyfriend, DCI Gareth Davies, there to give a talk on theft prevention. But behind the ornate red sandstone facade of this most respectable of Victorian buildings, Penny encounters deception, blackmail, and murder.

When the bishop's secretary dies of a suspicious case of food poisoning, Davies leads the investigation. At Penny's suggestion, Florence Semble, a friend from Penny's adopted hometown, is invited to the Library to decode the secretary's shorthand notebook in the search for clues. As the conference continues, another body is found in the beautiful Library itself, and Penny must once again search for a killer.

Elizabeth J. Duncan's Never Laugh as a Hearse Goes By is a fine entry in a series celebrated for its small-town charm, Welsh flavor, and lovable characters.

Never Laugh As a Hearse Goes By

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Some spine creases and light shelf wear. Spine has light sticker residue near the top. Light stain on back cover. 

A village in north Wales is split over a project to turn the ruins of a castle into a tourist attraction. The argument between economists and environmentalists leads to murders and Constable Evan Evans has work to do.

Evan Help Us

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#hardcover #mystery #wales #firstedition #PennyBrannigan

Winner of the Bloody Words Light Mystery Award

The North Wales market town of Llanelen is abuzz when a Vietnamese family moves into Ty Brith Hall. It isn't long before the family's business dealings have the townsfolk wondering what's really going on up at the big house on the hill.

Things take a sinister turn when Penny Brannigan, spending a midwinter afternoon sketching the magnificent views that surround the town, discovers the body of the new family's teenage daughter. Many secrets lie buried in the shallow grave, along with the girl, who Penny identifies by the snakeskin manicure she received at Penny's salon. When an elderly woman returns to Llanelen to care for her ailing brother, Penny discovers the truth about another death at Ty Brith Hall, one that hits very close to home. Though Penny's romantic interest, Detective Chief Inspector Gareth Davies, warns her to stay away, Penny can't resist getting involved, and her urge to help will ultimately put her in danger.

Elizabeth J. Duncan's latest offering in this engaging series is filled with memorable characters, great escapes, explosive plot twists, and plenty of Welsh charm.

A Small Hill to Die On

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Brian Bailey

Perfect book if you plan to visit the UK, or if you have and want to have memories of places you saw. This book is filled with both black and white photos and packed full of information. 

Florida

Great Romantic Ruins of England and Wales

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Read once. Personal library stamp on cover page. 

Indiana

"Wicked fun, devilishly clever, with echoes of Agatha Christie." --Patricia Cornwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author

At midnight, one of them is dead. By morning, all of them are suspects.

It's the party to end all parties....but not everyone is here to celebrate.

On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His vacation homes on Mirror Lake are a success, and he's generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbors.

But by midnight, Rhys will be floating dead in the freezing waters of the lake.

On New Year's Day, Ffion Morgan has a village full of suspects. The tiny community is her home, so the suspects are her neighbors, friends and family--and Ffion has her own secrets to protect.

With a lie uncovered at every turn, soon the question isn't who wanted Rhys dead...but who finally killed him.

In a village with this many secrets, murder is just the beginning.

"Brilliant, so atmospheric....I fell in love with the courageous, complicated detective Ffion Morgan and I think readers will too." --Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The It Girl

The Last Party

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New Jersey

This compact edition presents 25 of the most magnificent houses in England and Wales. From awe-inspiring, medieval stone homes to the classical grandeur of the 18th century to the high drama of Victorian taste, these houses illustrate the evolution of decorative arts in Great Britain.

Great Houses of England and Wales

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#peterhodavies #thewelshgirl #fiction #literaryfiction #2007 #wales #worldwartwo #paperback 

Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, award-winning author Peter Ho Davies's The Welsh Girl is "a beautiful, ambitious novel that takes the reader into the most personal corner of war" (New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett), set in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day.



When a POW camp is established near her village, seventeen-year-old barmaid Esther Evans finds herself strangely drawn to the camp and its forlorn captives. She is exploring the camp boundary when the astonishing occurs: Karsten, a young German corporal, calls out to her from behind the fence. From that moment on, the two foster a secret relationship that will ultimately put them both at risk. Meanwhile, another foreigner, the German-Jewish interrogator Rotherham, travels to Wales to investigate Britain's most notorious Nazi prisoner, Rudolf Hess.



In this richly drawn and thought-provoking work, all will come to question where they belong and where their loyalties lie.

The Welsh Girl

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DK Eyewitness

California

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain is your indispensable guide to England, Scotland, and Wales. This fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of the must-see sights, such as Stonehenge and Big Ben. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide will help you to discover Great Britain region by region -- whether you are most interested in local festivals and markets or day trips around the countryside. Street-by-street maps of key cities and towns will help you get the most out of your trip, and insider tips and essential local information showcases the best of Great Britain's restaurants, pubs, shops, hotels, and more. What's new in DK Eyewitness Travel Guides New itineraries based on length of stay, regional destinations, and themes. Brand-new hotel and restaurants listings including DK's Choice recommendations. Restaurant locations plotted on redrawn area maps and listed with sights. Redesigned and refreshed interiors make the guides even easier to read. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that brighten every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain truly shows you this destination as no one else can.

DK Eyewitness Great Britain

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Library copy. in good condition. has stickers on spine and back. cover has been reinforced with clear plastic. 

Kansas

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Charles Todd

A Forgotten Place

Mary Dawson; artist, Ingrid Fetz

Tecwyn, Last of the Welsh Dragons

Audrey Daly

Dianna, Princess of Wales

Alis Hawkins

In Two Minds

Elizabeth J. Duncan

Murder Is for Keeps

Lisa Jackson

Enchantress

Simon Mawer

The Fall

Angela Gray

A Slice of Wales

Tom Bullough

Addlands

Sarah Ward

The Birthday Girl ***New Crime Series*** Mallory Dawson Book 1

Rhys Bowen

Evan Only Knows

Rhys Bowen

Evans Above

Rhys Bowen

Evan's Gate

Anne Perry

Anne Perry's Silent Nights

Anne Perry

Anne Perry's Silent Nights

Elizabeth J. Duncan

Never Laugh As a Hearse Goes By

Rhys Bowen

Evan Help Us

Elizabeth J. Duncan

A Small Hill to Die On

Brian Bailey

Great Romantic Ruins of England and Wales

Clare Mackintosh

The Last Party

Christopher Simon Sykes

Great Houses of England and Wales

Peter Ho Davies

The Welsh Girl

DK Eyewitness

DK Eyewitness Great Britain

Nick Dalton

Frommer's England and the Best of Wales

The Birthday Girl New Crime Series Mallory Dawson Book 1