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"Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help! From Reese's Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes an absolute tour de force--the wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own"--
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"Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy's early work, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna...
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Post-World War I England. Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, have organized a luncheon at the school to benefit wounded veterans of the Great War, encouraging the students of Haverleigh School for Young Ladies to participate in the cooking and the baking. But too many cooks do more than spoil the broth-- the school's headmistress, Miss Finch, is poisoned. Did one of the girls resent the headmistress enough to do her in? Did a teacher...
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