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Mystery/Crime

British Bulldog: A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery

By Sara Sheridan - Published 2015

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British Bulldog is the fourth novel in Sara Sheridan’s mystery series. I hadn’t read any of the previous novels, but it ...Read Review

Mycroft Holmes

By Anna Waterhouse - By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

The authors make good use of history to support a clever plot in which Sherlock Holmes’s elder brother, Mycroft, also a man ...Read Review

Sherlock Holmes and the Baron of Brede Place: Book II, Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati

By Daniel D. Victor - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

In the second of a new series “penned by” Holmes’ crony Dr. Watson (after The Final Page of Baker Street, 2014), Sherlock Holmes meets ...Read Review

The Abduction of Nelly Don

By Patrice Williams Marks - Published 2015

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Biographical Fiction Mystery/Crime

Set in Kansas during the Depression, this is a novelisation of the true story of Nelly Donnelly, a successful garment manufacturer. The book ...Read Review

In Another Life

By Julie Christine Johnson - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime Time-slip

This dual time period story parallels the modern-day life of Lia, a historian writing her dissertation on the beliefs of the early 13th-century ...Read Review

The Case of the Fickle Mermaid: A Brothers Grimm Mystery

By P. J. Brackston - Published 2016

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Historical Fantasy Mystery/Crime

Gretel (yes, that Gretel) has grown up and become a private detective in order to support herself and her lazy, food-loving brother, Hans (...Read Review

Mayhem at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West

By Fedora Amis - Published 2016

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Adventure Mystery/Crime Western

Jemima McBustle is a reporter for the St. Louis Illuminator, and she’s on her way to Sedalia, Missouri to cover Buffalo Bill ...Read Review

Murder on a Summer’s Day

By Frances Brody - Published 2013 Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

The 1920s amateur detective, revived in several recent mystery series, has another winner in WWI widow, Kate Shackleton. Kate, adopted from the slums ...Read Review

Shot Tower: Henry and Silas Make the Big Shoot

By William Shefski - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

“Words in the present speak to you from the past. Shot Tower is a coming of age story about Harry, the teenage son ...Read Review

The Lost Time Accidents

By John Wray - Published 2016

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Historical Fantasy Literary Mystery/Crime

Taken together, John Wray’s first three novels clearly demonstrate his facility in representing a broad, eclectic range of subjects, time periods, and ...Read Review