Mystery/Crime
A Friendly Game of Murder: An Algonquin Round Table Mystery
Wisecracking Dorothy Parker is at it again, solving a mystery with her famous round table friends during the Roaring Twenties.…
Holy Smoke
Ramsay’s mystery series set in Jerusalem in the 1st century CE combines skilled plotting with a lighthearted irreverence and sense…
Midnight at Marble Arch
A new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery from Anne Perry is always cause for rejoicing among her fans, and this…
Unnatural Habits
The always-indomitable and independently wealthy sleuth Phryne Fisher and her cast of sidekicks and supporters is back in this romp…
A Name in Blood
Editors' choice
The mystery of Caravaggio’s last months and death has never been satisfactorily resolved: traditionally, he is said to have died…
What Darkness Brings: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
One simply cannot help but adore Lord Devlin, aka Sebastian St. Cyr: witty, intuitive, handsome, fearless – and a great…
Strands of Bronze and Gold
Tucked away in a backwater Mississippi town is Wyndriven Abbey, home of the mysterious, intoxicating Bernard de Cressac. Sophia Petheram…
Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
This sixth Oscar Wilde mystery is set largely during Wilde’s infamous period of imprisonment between 1895-1897, after he was sentenced…
The Great Deception
A few years after WWII, Shelly and her husband Cole have settled on a farm southwest of Sydney. Knowing little…
Hammett Unwritten
The one word that comes to mind when reading Owen Fitzstephen’s Hammett Unwritten (as discovered and edited by Gordon McAlpine)…
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