Mystery/Crime
The Inquest
In 1830 Burlington, Vermont, a young woman named “Speedy” (Experience) Goodrich dies of a botched abortion. An inquest is held…
The Price of Pride
Brace yourself. MacQuigg launches The Price of Pride with a double murder and charges toward a shootout ending that…
Louisa and the Crystal Gazer
It has become quite fashionable and profitable in the American writing world for an author to take a well-known person…
Game of Patience
When two people are found murdered in post-revolutionary Paris, police agent Aristide Ravel investigates. Ravel discovers the male victim…
The Temple Dancer
In the mid-17th century Portuguese colony of Goa, beautiful, sheltered Lucinda Dasana is heir to the family fortune. But…
White Ghost Girls
Editors' choice
Some “literary” novels contain rich, descriptive language that might be enjoyable to read but has no real bearing on…
The Ragtime Kid
In 1898, when Brun Campbell hears Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag,” the 15-year-old piano enthusiast has just one goal:…
The Meaning of Night: A Confession
Michael Cox’s debut novel is a darkly atmospheric and very gothic tale of wrath, nemesis, and self-destruction: a 600-…
The Last Pleasure Garden
The Last Pleasure Garden of the book’s title is Cremorne Gardens, a Victorian version of the notorious Vauxhall Gardens…
Lost Among the Angels
In 1926, Mercy Allcutt has traded in her Boston blueblood life for life in Los Angeles with her sister…
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