Mystery/Crime
Capital Crimes: Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder
London, as one of the world’s principal cities for many years, has been the focus for incalculable crimes and misdemeanours,…
The Lairds of Cromarty
Some books are a real surprise, and this is one of them. What is at heart a detective story becomes…
Death in Her Face
In post-WWII Hollywood, screenwriter Lauren Atwill and her private eye beau are hired to help with a potential PR nightmare…
The Jump Artist
At times this is not the easiest book to read, nor is it the most enjoyable, nor the most exciting.…
Summon Up the Blood: A Silas Quinn Mystery
Morris begins a new series (after The Cleansing Flame, 2011) with a grisly novel set in the foreboding atmosphere of…
Death on Pont Noir
Well done, Adrian Magson. He knows what readers like, enjoys writing detective novels, and knows how to construct a fast-paced,…
Henrietta Street
In the year 1780, Eve Martin watches as a fire consumes Knowle Manor in Devon, England, the home of her…
An Invisible Murder
This is the fourth novel in the series featuring the gifted cook and amateur detective, Jenny Starling. She is the…
Death and the Maiden: A Max Liebermann Mystery
Sixth in a series starring psychoanalyst Max Liebermann, a “consulting” psychiatrist to the Prague police department, Death and the Maiden…
The Streets
London 1882, and the young David Wildeblood starts work on Henry Marchmont’s staff as researcher/journalist on the weekly publication The…
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