Mystery/Crime
The Hartlepool Monkey
The legend of the Hartlepool Monkey is well known in the North East of England in that in the early…
A Vengeful Longing
This is the sequel to the highly acclaimed A Gentle Axe, the first of Morris’s books to feature the investigating…
Listen to the Mockingbird
Every good mystery begins with a murder, and Penny Rudolph’s Listen to the Mockingbird doesn’t disappoint: a young stranger…
A Daughter’s Inheritance
Set in upstate New York (Rochester and Broadmoor Island, a fictional island in the Thousand Island region of the St.…
Daphne
Here is a novel which combines the life stories and the novels of Daphne du Maurier and the Brontës, a…
The Third Circle
In Leona Hewitt’s desperation to get back the aurora stone, a crystal that was stolen from her mother, she dresses…
The Carstairs Conspiracy
As sole heir of the late Duke of Penrith, Abigail Carstairs is the target of many fortune hunters. But it…
The Blackstone Key
Editors' choice
Mary Finch receives an invitation from a rich, estranged uncle to meet him at White Ladies, his estate on the…
Pinkerton’s Secret
This novel is told from the point of view of Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton, who became the backbone of…
My Enemy’s Cradle
Cyrla, child of a Polish Jewish father and a Dutch mother, is sent to live with her late mother’s…
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