Mystery/Crime
Guardians of the Key
Editors' choice
Gray has skilfully crafted a tale that leads from Italy under the burden of Napoleonic rule to the Italian…
Kept
Set in 1860s England, this literary novel is very much in the style of well-known Victorian fiction, but it…
A Rare Interest in Corpses
In Victorian England many a penniless young woman of ‘good’ family found that the only form of paid employment…
The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion
Editors' choice
“Most of what follows took place in the West. Not just any West.” So begins the tale of Johnny…
Murder on the Middle Fork
This short novel accurately depicts the hardscrabble and desperate lives of those who preyed on the fortunes of others. The…
The Boy’s Tale
The peace of St Frideswide’s is shattered with the arrival of two small boys after their party is apparently…
Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls
Editors' choice
Britannia, 117 AD. Having just joined the hospital staff at the Roman legionary fortress of Deva (Chester), world-weary surgeon Gaius…
The Elixir of Death
Editors' choice
AD 1195. ‘Crowner John’ – otherwise the splendidly-named Sir John de Wolfe, black-haired and frequently bad tempered – is…
Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead
The Queen, ‘The Perfect One’, vanishes just before the festival at their new city to celebrate the new religion…
A Roman Ransom
Glevum (modern day Gloucester) in Roman Britain, 188 AD. Libertus, the pavement maker, is sick. However, his patron, Marcus Septimus,…
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