Mystery/Crime
Straight into Darkness
Straight Into Darkness is a departure from Kellerman’s Lazarus/Decker mystery series, and she handles this dark historical turn into…
The Last Days of Newgate
This is the first of a proposed series featuring Pyke, sometimes crook, sometimes Bow Street Runner. It is 1829.…
Death and the Cornish Fiddler
Editors' choice
When newly widowed John Rawlings and his daughter Rose are invited to accompany Elizabeth di Lorenzi to Helstone for…
The Poe Shadow
Baltimore lawyer and Poe admirer Quentin Clark has a promising law practice and, after shaking off his cluelessness regarding…
In the City of Dark Waters
In 1908 Revel Callender, an English lawyer, is living in Venice, taking time off to see all that Italy…
The Boys of San Joaquin
Small-town California in 1951 is the setting for this young adult novel. Written with a strong eye to the…
Rabbit Heart
Nicollette Caron has a problem: every time she makes love with a man, he dies in her arms –…
Grace in Thine Eyes
In her Scottish trilogy, beginning with Thorn in My Heart, Higgs reset the biblical story of Jacob (Jamie McKie)…
City for Ransom
Inspector Alastair Ransom is faced with a diabolical and ruthless killer who is stalking the streets of Chicago during…
The Observations
In Scotland in 1863, 15-year-old runaway Bessy Buckley finds work as a maid for the beautiful Arabella Reid and her…
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