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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Most households keep secrets.Ashgrove organizes them.When governess Eleanor Hartwell accepts a winter placement at a respectable Wiltshire estate, she expects difficult children, rigid routines, and the quiet tensions common to wealthy homes. Instead, she finds something more precise.A previous governess vanished without warning.The household insists it was a family emergency.The children know otherwise.A misplaced letter.A supper tray returned untouched.A schoolroom carefully reordered after someone disappeared from it.As Eleanor reconstructs the final week before Miss Fenton's departure, she begins to uncover a pattern hidden beneath Ashgrove's polished routines - one built not on violence, but on silence, influence, and the careful management of what respectable people choose not to acknowledge.But in a house where everyone observes and nobody speaks plainly, asking the correct question may be more dangerous than not asking at all.The Child Who Kept No Secrets is a quiet Victorian mystery of household systems, concealed pressures, and the cost of noticing what others prefer unseen.Perfect for readers of Kate Morton, Sarah Waters, and Susan Hill.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The dead cannot challenge the records left behind. Nora Veil can.London, 1903.For eleven years, hospital almoner Nora Veil has protected the modest property of patients who die without family advocates. Her work is quiet, exacting, and largely unnoticed-the careful administration of savings accounts, personal effects, unpaid bills, and the final instructions of people whose lives might otherwise disappear into institutional paperwork.Then the file of Agnes Tully reaches her desk.A solicitor's reference number was assigned before the hospital officially released the estate. Another file shows the same irregularity. Then a third. When Nora reconstructs the dates, she discovers something impossible: letters describing patients as deceased were written days before their deaths.Someone inside St. Augustin's has been providing advance information about vulnerable patients and the property they will leave behind.Nora follows the trail from the hospital's records room to a respected firm of solicitors, an accommodating property agent, and a sequence of estates quietly diminished after their owners could no longer object. Every document brings her closer to the truth-and places her in greater danger of professional isolation, institutional retaliation, and the destruction of the evidence she has spent her career learning to protect.The people behind the scheme are confident that no one will examine the accounts closely enough to expose them.They have not accounted for Nora Veil.What Remained of Them is the first Nora Veil historical mystery: an atmospheric story of institutional corruption, quiet courage, and one woman's determination to ensure that even the smallest life is accurately recorded.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a house built on silence, observation is dangerous.Eleanor Hartwell has learned to survive by watching carefully and speaking rarely. As a governess, she occupies a peculiar position-educated enough to notice what others miss, yet invisible enough to be dismissed when she does.When a charming guest arrives at Thornfield Park, Eleanor senses something wrong long before anyone else does. Conversations feel too practiced. Questions linger too long. Information moves through the household in ways it should not. What appears to be polite society is quietly being reorganized around leverage, secrets, and pressure.As Eleanor documents what she sees, the cost of her attention becomes clear. To speak out would mean dismissal, disgrace, and the end of her career. To remain silent would place the children in her care-and the household itself-at risk.The House That Never Spoke is a restrained historical mystery about social manipulation, quiet power, and the danger of men who charm everyone they meet. This is not a story of sudden violence, but of slow encroachment-where the most threatening acts happen behind closed doors, and the greatest risk lies in noticing too much.The first novel in The Governess Cases.…