Sulari Gentill
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"The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct everyone inside to stay put until they determine there is no threat. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers who had been sitting in the reading room get to chatting and quickly become friendly. Harriet, Marigold, Whit, and Caine...
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Rowland Sinclair novels volume 7
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For fans of Rhys Bowen, Kerry Greenwood and Jacqueline Winspear comes an adventure-packed romp that threads 1934 Sydney's upper class and its seedy underworld.
Wealthy Rowland Sinclair, an artist with leftist friends and a free-wheeling lifestyle, reluctantly agrees to a charity race. He'll drive his beloved yellow Mercedes on the Maroubra Speedway, renamed the Killer Track for the lives it has claimed. His teammates are a young Errol Flynn and the...
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Rowland Sinclair novels volume 6
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The gun used in Rowland Sinclair's father's death some thirteen years earlier has turned up in a drained dam at the family's country homestead in Yass. And when Rowland offends right-wing New Guard leader Eric Campbell, Campbell uses his influence to set the police to renew their inquiries into Henry Sinclair's death. Henry's friends had all been led to believe that the wealthy landowner had died in a much more respectable way. Rowland and his elder...
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Rowland Sinclair novels volume 2
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Winner of the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction for 2012 Travel back in time to 1932 and book a first-class suite on the passenger liner RMS Aquitania, but take care, for among your fellow passengers is a ruthless killer… Direct threats from Australia's warring Right and the Left having quieted, wealthy Rowland Sinclair and his group of bohemian friends are their way home to Sydney via New York after a lengthy stay in Europe. The wealthy...
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"Shanghai, 1935. Rowland Sinclair arrives from Sydney, Australia, to represent his brother at international wool negotiations. A novice to global commerce, Rowland is under strict instructions to keep a low profile...but that soon becomes next to impossible. A beautiful Russian taxi girl-who once claimed to be the princess, Anastasia, and who danced in Rowland's arms the night before-is found slain in his suite. It's no surprise that suspicion falls...
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"When Rowland Sinclair receives word of his friend Daniel Cartwright's death, he sets out immediately from Singapore to Boston to honor the American millionaire's last wishes to execute his will. He is met with the outrage and anguish of a family spurned in favor of a missing heir about whom no one seems to have any knowledge-one Otis Norcross. As Rowly battles pressure from all sides to declare the mysterious heir non-existent, he finds evidence...
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"Rowland Sinclair doesn't fit with his family. His conservative older brother, Wilfred, thinks he's reckless, a black sheep; his aging mother thinks he's her son who was killed in the war. Only his namesake Uncle Rowly, a kindred spirit, understands him-and now he's been brutally murdered in his own home. The police are literally clueless, and so Rowly takes it upon himself to investigate the crime. In order to root out the guilty party, he uses his...
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Rowland Sinclair novels volume 8
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When Rowland Sinclair volunteers his services as a pilot to fly the renowned international peace advocate, Egon Kisch, between Freemantle and Melbourne, he is unaware of how hard Australia's new Attorney General will fight to keep the reporter off Australian soil. In this, it seems, the government is not alone, as clandestine right-wing militias target Kisch... A Communist agent is murdered on the steps of Parliament House and Rowland finds himself...
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Rowland Sinclair novels volume 5
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After narrowly escaping the terror of Nazi Germany, Rowland Sinclair and his companions land in London, believing they are safe. But they are wrong. A bizzare murder plunges the hapless Australian into a queer world of British aristocracy, Fascist Blackshirts, illicit love, scandal and spies. A world where gentlemen are not always what they are dressed up to be...
10) Miles Off Course
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It is 1933 and wealthy Australian artist Rowland Sinclair is enjoying a leisurely sojourn in the luxury Hydro Majestic Hotel in the Blue Mountains. As ever, he is accompanied by his entourage - a poet, a fellow painter and a brazen sculptress. The Depression-era troubles of the wider world seem far away; until long-time Sinclair family ally and employee Harry Simpson disappears. Rowland must leave for the High Country to find Harry. He encounters...
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Sulari Gentill, author of the 1930s Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, jumps to the post-modern in Crossing the Lines. A successful writer, Madeleine, creates a character, Edward, and begins to imagine his life. He, too, is an author. Edward is in love with a woman, Willow, who's married to a man Edward loathes, and who loathes him, but he and Willow stay close friends. She's an artist. As Madeleine develops the plot, Edward attends a gallery show where...
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Poisoned Pen Press
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[2020]
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233 pages ; 22 cm
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"Madeleine d'Leon doesn't know where Edward, her novel's main character, came from. But as she writes, he becomes all she can think about. Edward McGinnity can't get Madeleine out of his mind. She will be the perfect heroine for his next book. But who is the author and who is the creation? And as the lines start to blur, who is affected when a killer finally takes flesh? CROSSING THE LINES is a wildly inventive twist on the murder mystery filled with...