title: Honour Among Men: An Inspector Green Mystery
author:  Barbara Fradkin 
description: Inspector Green is coping with an office job, still eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing. His chance comes when an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River. In her possession is a Medal for Bravery from a peacekeeping mission. As Green and his team dig deeper into the military past, Green finds himself sucked not only into the murky past of a peacekeeping unit but into the high-stakes present of a federal election race. What crime was committed in Yugoslavia more than a decade ago? Is someone still killing to prevent that secret from coming to light? And does the diary of a dead soldier hold the key?
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  THE CAPTAIN TAKES A BRIDE
  
  LILY GEORGE
  
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  CHAPTER 1
  
  
  April 16, 1817
  
  
  11 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London
  
  M iss Laura Stephens raised her hand to grasp at the doorknocker, but then
  took a step backward, drawing in a deep breath. If only she could stop
  trembling all over. This was no way to present oneself to a potential employer
  like Captain Carew. If his housekeeper suspected that she was a mere slip of a
  girl seeking her first position, well, then, she might not get the job.
  
  She caught a glimpse of her reflection in the sidelight of the door. Her blue
  eyes had darkened to the point of blackness, a telltale sign of her fear. The
  depth of color was in stark contrast to her pale countenance. She looked as
  wretched as she felt, and if the tables were turned, she would not hire such a
  timid, cowering creature. For how could a green girl, afraid of her own
  shadow, possibly become a good governess?
  
  Enough was enough. She tugged h