Mystery/Crime
Mistress of the Art of Death
Editors' choice
Adelia, who has studied medicine in Salerno, Sicily, is selected by the King of Sicily to accompany Simon of Naples,…
Black Arrow
Imperial official Sugawara Akitada is recently assigned as deputy governor of Eichigo (now Niigata province) on the rough, snow-bound northern…
Silent in the Grave
This can only be described as a rich plum pudding of a book, full of everything you would find in…
A Christmas Secret
In December 1890, Clarice Corde accompanies her husband to the village of Cottisham, where he is to stand in while…
The Tenderness of Wolves
Editors' choice
If I had to review this book in six words, it would be “Stop everything and read this novel.” It…
The Excursion Train
This second novel in the Detective Inspector Colbeck mysteries is now in reprint with a splendidly eye-catching new cover. Robert…
The Railway Detective
The first novel in the Detective Inspector Colbeck Mysteries has a handsome new cover in honour of its reprint. 1851:…
The Savage Garden
In 1958, Cambridge art history student, Adam Strickland, goes to Tuscany to work on the Mannerist garden of the Villa…
The Alibi Club
It is the summer of 1940 in Paris, and the Germans are beginning their invasion. Sally King, an American model…
A Gentle Axe
A man hangs from a tree in Petrovsky Park, St. Petersburg, an axe tucked in his belt. Beside him on…
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