Mystery/Crime
Pliney Fiske
Pliney Fiske is a clerk in the Civil War Pension Office of Concord, New Hampshire. His job is to determine…
If Two Are Dead
Thomas Dordrecht is perplexed. Daniel Sproul, a partner in the shipping firm he works for, has been found dead on…
A Place of Confinement
Editors' choice
There is a man interested in marrying impoverished spinster Dido Kent; unfortunately, he is the pompous clergyman Dr Proudlee. He…
Roman Games
Rome, 96 AD. The city’s labyrinthine politics have brought the Emperor Domitian to the final stages of paranoia, manifest in…
Death in the Floating City
In Tasha Alexander’s most recent addition to her Lady Emily mystery series, we find the delightful Lady Emily Hargreaves accompanied…
The Messenger Bird
his is a race-against-time mystery story in which three children have only a few days to solve a series of…
A Death in the Small Hours
In Finch’s sixth Victorian mystery involving gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox (after A Burial at Sea, 2011), the former private investigator…
Come the Fear
In 1733, Leeds is home to pimps, kidnappers, and thieves, apparently beneath the notice of increasingly wealthy wool merchants—but not…
Hard Twisted
Editors' choice
In 1934, 13-year-old Lucile “Lottie” Garrett has already been hoboing with her father, Dillard Garrett, in Oklahoma for two years.…
Bloody Winter
Bloody Winter has two protagonists, and each tells his story in alternating chapters. The first narrator is the series’ Detective…
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