20th Century
A Pale Horse
Tenth in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series, A Pale Horse finds Rutledge searching for a missing man in Berkshire,…
An Expert in Murder
This is the first in a projected murder mystery series featuring the author Josephine Tey. There are now many…
Black Widow
Vinnie Vesta left Hell’s Kitchen in 1950 to find a better life. Now post-college, he leads an idyllic life in…
Pavel and I
Set in Berlin during the deadly cold Christmas season of 1946, this is a story of intrigue and murder,…
The Seventh Well
Editors' choice
The Seventh Well was originally published in East Germany in 1971, but not until its reissue in 2006 did…
Pickle to Pie
The premise of this “based on fact, veiled in fiction” novel is similar to Anne Landsman’s The Rowing Lesson:…
Stratton’s War
This is the first of a planned series of crime novels set in 1940s London. DI Ted Stratton is…
The Tears of Autumn
For Biff and Rosemary Banks, newly wed, their honeymoon in Italy is an adventure, one only improved by the…
The End of East
Lee’s book, first published in Canada by Knopf as a “New Faces of Fiction” novel, is her first novel, full…
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
Molly Murphy is back in New York City after doing some detecting in Ireland that almost cost her her…
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