Mystery/Crime
Slay Bells
Pray for a rainy day! It’ll give you the perfect excuse to curl up with Kate Kingsbury’s latest book in…
When Gods Die
Apparently Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is having a rough year. Having just managed to clear himself of murder earlier…
Beguiled
In the waning years of Victoria’s reign, orphaned Ally Grayson is fascinated by a masked highwayman who steals nothing, nor…
Jack Knife
The movie Time After Time, released in 1979, purported that Jack the Ripper stole H.G. Wells’s time machine and went…
The Fugitive From Corinth
80 AD Corinth. This Caroline Lawrence’s tenth Roman mystery, and the young detectives, Nubia, Flavia, Lupus and Jonathan, are in…
Hornswoggled
Hornswoggled is the second mystery (following The Old Buzzard Had It Coming) in Donis Casey’s series featuring Alafair Tucker, a…
A Tale Of Cuckoo Brow Wood
I am currently relishing rereading Beatrix Potter’s books with my daughter, so I was delighted to discover a mystery series…
A Death At The Rose Paperworks
Second in the new mystery series featuring Libby Seale, seamstress with a secret in 19th-century Portland, Oregon, this outing finds…
Murder In Little Italy
In the turbulent immigrant neighborhoods of late 1890s New York, Tammany Hall ward heelers juggle political power while other ethnic…
The Book Of True Desires
Krahn’s second in her Book series (following The Book of the Seven Delights) puts a feminist spin on the adventure…
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