Mystery/Crime
The Mesmerist
Editors' choice
As Queen Victoria comes to the throne, the mysterious Mrs. Cordelia du Pont begins her meteoric rise to fame and…
The Water Thief
The Water Thief is a puzzle within a conundrum – an academic mystery turned deadly. In 304 C.E. Aelius Spartianus,…
A Treasury of Regret
When investigator Aristide Ravel enters the office of his local police commissariat, he’s met by Laurence Dupont, a young woman…
Blood on the Strand
Editors' choice
Spring 1663, the eve of the third year of the Restoration, but all is not well in the capital city.…
The Limehouse Text
Thomas Llewelyn works for the Victorian enquiry agent Cyrus Baker, a mysterious man versed in the Oriental arts, with links…
Kept: A Victorian Mystery
A young landowner is thrown from his horse and killed. His widow, already unbalanced from the loss of their child,…
Stormcrow Castle
Helena Carlisle arrives at Stormcrow Castle in search of her aunt who is housekeeper there. However, Helena’s aunt is absent…
The Social Outcast
Surrey, 1820: Eloise Hamilton, the 17-year-old illegitimate daughter of a wealthy banker, knows that she can never aspire to a…
A Mass for the Dead
In McDuffie’s first mystery, set in Scotland in 1373, the author looks deep into the glass of her own ancestry…
The Malice of Unnatural Death
Exeter, 1324. When the body of a local craftsman and a King’s Messenger are found murdered, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill,…
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