Deanna Raybourn
A Spear of Summer Grass
Delilah Drummond is scandalous, even by 1920s standards. Her latest problem—the suicide of her ex-husband—is too much for her family…
The Dark Enquiry
Editors' choice
After her eldest brother, Viscount Bellmont, secretly visits her husband, Lady Julia Brisbane ponders why since the two don’t particularly…
Dark Road to Darjeeling
It is 1889, and Lady Julia Grey and her husband Lord Brisbane are on their honeymoon in Cairo when her…
The Dead Travel Fast
In 1858 Edinburgh, Theodora Lestrange finds herself an anchorless young spinster. She has just lost her grandfather, a kindly professor…
Silent on the Moor
Editors' choice
Widowed Lady Julia Grey returns in this third outing to openly pursue Nicholas Brisbane, a private investigator she first encountered…
Silent in the Sanctuary
Silent in the Sanctuary reacquaints the readers of Silent in the Grave with widowed Lady Julia Grey and the inscrutable…
Silent in the Grave
This can only be described as a rich plum pudding of a book, full of everything you would find in…
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