Mystery/Crime
The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose
This third mystery in an ongoing series is a sweet, nostalgic, regional puzzle set in Depression-era Darling, Alabama. The Darling…
The Broken Lands
Walker and Bones arrive on Coney Island to subvert both New York City and Brooklyn to their evil purposes. Few…
The Girl on the Cliff
Riley’s second novel uses a familiar but intriguing device in which secrets of long ago impact a love story today.…
Face of the Enemy
Editors' choice
War is about to be declared against Germany and Japan. Americans are traumatized by Japan’s military attack on Pearl Harbor.…
A Lack of Temperance
The Hattie Davish mystery series is off to a promising start. The young amateur sleuth is a traveling secretary with…
Sutton
Pulitzer Prize winner Moehringer does not tell you a couple of things in his brief author’s note about the facts…
Lucky Bunny
The title of Jill Dawson’s seventh novel, Lucky Bunny, is ironic. The white bunny that Queenie Dove receives as a…
The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes
June Thomson has published a number of these pastiches of the famous stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. They all consist…
Triple Play
Nate Heller’s cases involve known historical murders which the Chicago private detective solves and resolves. The first of the three…
Alone in the Classroom
Set in Canada and moving in time between more modern times and the era of the Great Depression, the novel…
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