When Harriet Gordon receives word from a friend about a tragic death, she and Inspector Curran are thrust into a web of family secrets that threatens to destroy them both in this all-new mystery from the author of Singapore Sapphire.Singapore, 1910—Harriet Gordon has found fulfillment at last. Her young ward, Will, has settled into his new home with Harriet and her brother, Julian. And Harriet’s employment as a typist at the Straits Settlements Po...

The next instalment in the riveting HARRIET GORDON MYSTERIES.The chance to pursue a new opportunity takes Harriet and her brother Julian, to Kuala Lumpur, but death is waiting…Singapore 1910: Harriet Gordon has been dismissed from the job she loved and finds herself cast adrift. When her brother receives an invitation to visit a prestigious school in Kuala Lumpur, she and Julian decide to leave Singapore behind for a few days, but their pleasant vi...

Craving a change of pace, Harriet Gordon, joins a local musical theatre production but when a fellow cast member is brutally killed, Harriet and Inspector Curran must turn the spotlight on murder in this all-new mystery from the author of Revenge in Rubies.Between working at her brother’s school and typing up Inspector Robert Curran’s police reports, Harriet Gordon has little time for personal pursuits and she has been enjoying the rehearsals for her role ...

An important visitor casts a shadow of darkness and death over Singapore.Harriet Gordon, newly settled in her new role as a teacher at a girls' school in Singapore, faces uncertainty in her budding relationship with Robert Curran, who has just returned from months in Kuala Lumpur. Curran's expected promotion turns sour when the position is given to an old adversary from his Scotland Yard days.The arrival of the Colonial foreign secretary, Sir Henry...

Multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) is an important method that is used across many disciplines for exploring spatial heterogeneity and modeling local spatial processes. This book introduces the concepts behind local spatial modeling and explains how to model heterogeneous spatial processes within a regression framework. It starts with the basic ideas and fundamentals of local spatial modeling followed by a detailed discussion of scale issues and statistical inference rela...

The cause may be righteous, but the price she had paid had been too highThe short heart-wrenching prequel to SINGAPORE SAPPHIRE - the first in the Harriet Gordon Mysteries.London 1909: Returning to London after her years in India ended in the tragic death of her husband and son, Harriet Gordon struggles to find her place in her parent's comfortable middle-class world.The suffragette movement answers the need for belonging until she is false...

Lights, camera, passion! A collection of steamy celebrity romances filled with glitz, glamour and games of desire…Contains 18 titles!Fame's TemptationRunning from the spotlight and into his armsContains:Beauty and the Reclusive Millionaire by Rachael StewartSlow Dance with the Best Man by Sophie PembrokeWhen Da Silva Breaks the Rules

Early twentieth-century Singapore is a place where a person can disappear, and Harriet Gordon hopes to make a new life for herself there, leaving her tragic memories behind her--but murder gets in the way.**Singapore, 1910--**Desperate for a fresh start, Harriet Gordon finds herself living with her brother, a reverend and headmaster of a school for boys, in Singapore at the height of colonial rule. Hoping to gain some financial independence, she advertises her serv...

Craving a change of pace, Harriet Gordon, joins a local musical theatre production but when a fellow cast member is brutally killed, Harriet and Inspector Curran must turn the spotlight on murder in this all-new mystery from the author of Revenge in Rubies.Between working at her brother’s school and typing up Inspector Robert Curran’s police reports, Harriet Gordon has little time for personal pursuits and she has been enjoying the rehearsals for her role ...

Genesis Seed by M.A. Stewart is a trilogy of novels about ancient, enlightened beings who sow a seed for enlightenment into early mammals. The seed is activated mistakenly by aliens who periodically visit Earth, conducting scientific experiments on mammals and humans. Genesis Seed Book 1 is a science fiction masterpiece that brings together tales of various characters navigating a galaxy in flux. This thought-provoking novel probes themes of redemption, transformation, and the unifying pow...

What is the difference between a butterfly and a moth, and how am I to distinguish between them? is a question very often put to the student of insect life—the entomologist. Butterflies and moths both belong to the Natural Order, Lepidoptera, or scale-winged insects. Butterflies may be distinguished as day flyers, and the moths fly by night. The main physical difference between them appears in the forms of the antennæ, or horns; in the butterflies these organs are club-shaped at the extrem...

David Hume was a highly original thinker. Nevertheless, he was a writer of his time and place in the history of philosophy. In this book, M. A. Stewart puts Hume's writing in context, particularly that of his native Scotland, but also that of British and European philosophy more generally. Through meticulous research Stewart brings to life the circumstances by means of which we can get a deeper understanding of Hume's writings on the nature and reach of human reason, the foundation of mora...