Mystery/Crime
The Specimen
Between 1859 and 1866, Gwen Carrick and her sister Euphemia live by the Helford River in Cornwall. Gwen is an…
Beware This Boy
Beware This Boy is the second installment in the Detective Inspector Tom Tyler series from acclaimed author Maureen Jennings, internationally…
The Revenge of Moriarty
The Revenge of Moriarty follows The Return of Moriarty. Basically, he’s baaaack! Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis, has returned from the…
Recipe for Treason: A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery
What a wonderful combination of a Regency-era cloak-and-dagger mystery and chocolate cookbook! Each chapter features a mouthwatering recipe of Lady…
Sherlock Holmes and the Knave of Hearts
Sherlock Holmes has fallen into depression and is abusing his cocaine habit. When Dr Watson insists that Holmes take a…
The Water Doctor’s Daughters
This is true crime and also a Victorian melodrama which outdoes any fictional Victorian melodrama I have ever read. It…
The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd
On October 18, 1931, Winnie Ruth Judd, a 26-year old medical secretary, boarded a train from Phoenix to Los Angeles…
I Will Have Vengeance: The Winter of Commissario Ricciardi
Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi is the dapper commissario of police in Naples, Italy. It is March of 1931 when he is…
India Black and the Shadows of Anarchy (A Madam of Espionage Mystery)
This is the third book in the India Black series, and they only get better. India Black runs an up-and-coming…
The Colours of Corruption
The Colours of Corruption’s cover is suggestive of the atmosphere the author means to evoke, in a palette of murky…
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