Mystery/Crime
A Medal for Murder: A Kate Shackleton Mystery
Detective Kate Shackleton solves her second murder mystery in this fun, well-plotted mystery set in 1920s Harrogate. An amateur theatre…
Instrument of Slaughter
In the bleak winter of 1916, war takes its increasing toll of young servicemen in France. For some Londoners, the…
Proof of Guilt
The fifteenth Inspector Rutledge mystery will not disappoint Todd fans and should encourage new readers. The plot, set between 1916…
Out of the Black Land
Kerry Greenwood is known for Jazz Age mysteries, but Out of the Black Land is a different animal. Eighteenth dynasty…
Asylum
Editors' choice
When Georgina Ferrars awakens to find herself in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England, she…
The Opening Night Murder (A Restoration Mystery)
With Charles II’s restoration, Suzanne Thornton, an entrepreneuring former prostitute, receives license to put on plays at the Globe Theatre.…
Fear in the Sunlight
In Nicola Upson’s fourth Josephine Tey mystery, nothing is what it appears—no surprise with Alfred Hitchcock involved. “Hitch” thinks he’s…
The Devil’s Recruit
This is the fourth novel with Alexander Seaton as its hero, but it was my first introduction to him. The…
Murder in Montague Place
This is the first adult novel by Martyn Beardsley, a prolific children’s author. Set in the Victorian world of the…
The Bookman’s Tale
Lovett’s enjoyable homage to books and bookishness opens, fittingly, in that literary magnet known as Hay-on-Wye in Wales. In 1995,…
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