20th Century
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Greenwood’s latest entry in the Phryne Fisher series, her 16th, has the unflappable Melbourne detective facing a multitude of problems:…
Winter in June
Third in Haines’s Rosie Winter mystery series, this outing finds the World War II-era actress on a steamer to the…
The Finest Type of English Womanhood
Two girls who have never met escape from the drab restrictions of post World War 2 Britain, their destination South…
Darkest Hour
Sergeant Jack Tanner hasn’t even been at Manston training camp for 24 hours before he realises something dodgy is going…
The Burnt-out Town of Miracles
When his village is evacuated by the Finnish army, Timo Vatanen, a village idiot who makes his living as a…
Inspector Ghote’s First Case
Inspector Ghote has been with us for over forty years, solving crimes in newly independent India since it was contemporary…
The Language of Bees: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
I, admittedly, have been a fan of Laurie R. King’s since I picked up The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first installment…
A Season of Leaves
The novel begins in 1992, in Cornwall, England, with an old lady, Rose Pepper, preparing for a trip to Prague.…
After You’ve Gone
After You’ve Gone takes place at the beginning of the 20th century and spans a number of years in the…
Hollywood Buzz
To begin with, Pucci Lewis is a WASP, Women’s Airforce Service Pilot, that is, the organization established during World War…
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