Checkmate Cat Woodward Gatehouse Press DCF Paperback 2024 Private investigator Julia Stark receives

Private investigator Julia Stark receives an unannounced visit at the office

The Paris Express is a propulsive novel set at the end of the nineteenth century about a high-speed steam train journey

When they are cut off by a storm

In this harrowing

with this stirring biography finally unveiling her true significance

Checkmate Cat Woodward Gatehouse Press DCF Paperback 2024 Private investigator Julia Stark receivesWalter Longcluse is a mysterious figure, a drifter and self made man whose travels throughout France, Austria, and England resulted in a large personal fortune. Being personable, he is quickly accepted into the Arden family, former aristocrats whose once ascendant star has lately waned with unpaid debts and the shadow of a murder. As Longcluse courts Alice Arden, brother Richard becomes fast friends with Longcluse. A visit to a gambling club one night