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It is India 1922 and the wives of officers in the Bengal Greys have been dying violently, one each year and always in March. The only link between the bizarre but apparently accidental deaths is the bunches of small red roses that appear on the women's graves.

When a fifth wife is found with her wrists cut in a bath of blood the Govenor rejects the verdict of suicide and calls in Joe Sandilands, an ex-soldier and Scotland Yard Detective. It...

Sometimes it is difficult to see clearly in what direction one's duty lies (and especially difficult for people like myself with a husband in one part of the world and children in another) but Tim and I, talking it over together in cold blood, decided that I ought to go home. Hester Christie, the delightful heroine last met in Mrs. Tim Gets a Job, has spent a blissful 18 months living in Kenya where husband Tim is posted. But now it's back to England...

Joanna, Amy, and Honor believes their future is shining and bright when each marries a West Point graduate in 1950. But reality replaces romance, and boredom replaces excitement, as each seeks fulfillment as a military wife.

"Nine months after the massacre at Custer's Last Stand, Elizabeth Custer scheduled a reunion with the widows of the Little Big Horn. On June 25, 1887, the women met in Monroe, Michigan, to reflect on the events leading up to the battle, remember the loved ones that were killed, and share how they have been able to go on. The widows got together every year for more than twenty years. In between reunions they corresponded with each other, exchanged...

Ordered to Osteheim labor camp to investigate the vicious murder of the camp commander's wife, German war hero Count Max von Prokofsk searches desperately for the killer as the Russian army draws ever nearer and SS officers plot his demise.

A fictional journal of the wife of the 17th century English diarist, Samuel Pepys, describing life among the upper classes. Also covered are major events, including the 1665 plague and the 1666 Great Fire that destroyed London. By the author of Acid Drop.

"On July 17, 1866, two soldiers and six wagoners were killed by Sioux Indians. In the next two weeks, fourteen more men died in Sioux attacks. The attacks continued through the summer and fall. On December 21, disaster struck. Recklessly pursuing Indians across a wooded ridge, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel William Fetterman and his company fell into an ambush. It was the worst military blunder of the Indian War before the Battle of the Little Bighorn...