Mystery/Crime
Britanniae
Britanniae is set in England during the last period of the Roman occupation. The heroine, Flavia Vindex, is a single…
The Stationmaster’s Farewell
If you like a Victorian detective whodunit set in a railway background, largely around Exeter (UK) St David’s GWR train…
The Girl Who Married an Eagle
Julia Newton, a recent American college grad, attends a lecture about missions in Africa and decides she has found her…
Dead Born
This superb novel, one in the series of Joan Lock’s Detective Sergeant Best mysteries, was originally published in 2001 and…
Sidney Chambers and the Perils of Night
This is the second in a series set in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Grantchester, England, featuring Canon…
The Family Way: A Molly Murphy Mystery
Lively private investigator Molly Sullivan née Murphy is now married to a police captain and expecting a baby. Daniel worries…
The India Fan
Drusilla Delany has always lived in the shadow of the Framling family; as daughter to the local rector, she is…
Make Believe: An Edna Ferber Mystery
It’s 1950s Hollywood, and author Edna Ferber’s famous novel Show Boat is the current movie buzz. She leaves her beloved…
The Buckshaw Chronicles: Volume One
The Buckshaw Chronicles: Volume One contains the first three novels by Canadian author Alan Bradley featuring the fascinating 11-year-old sleuth…
Shadows in the Night
This is the first in Jane Finnis’ Aurelia Marcella Mysteries, so we are introduced to the eponymous heroine who is…
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