Mystery/Crime
The Painted Lady
This is Restoration comedy, the eighth whodunit in the popular Redmayne series. Christopher Redmayne, the young architect, is making his…
A Fatal Waltz
Vienna! “For the connoisseur of the waltz, there is no better place,” pens Lady Emily Ashton in the very beginning…
The State Counsellor
I am a Boris Akunin fan, and the latest in his Erast Fandorin series does not disappoint. Fandorin is a…
The Serpent Garden
Riley’s exquisite tale begins in England in 1514 and follows the life of Susanna Dallet, daughter of a Flemish artist.…
Michaelmas Tribute
Editors' choice
The Brehon Judge, Mara, returns in this second historical murder mystery set in the Burren in north-west Ireland. It is…
The Apostate’s Tale
Margaret Frazer improves with each book. This is her seventeenth Dame Frevisse novel, and it has more depth then some…
The Fire Waker
The second in what, judging by the last page, is intended to be a series, The Fire Waker should have…
Terra Incognita
This is the second installment in the trials and tribulations of our memorable hero, Medicus Gaius Petreius Ruso, a Gaul…
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
Molly Murphy is back in New York City after doing some detecting in Ireland that almost cost her her…
The Drop Edge of Yonder
The engaging Oklahoma farm wife and mother of ten, Alafair Tucker (The Old Buzzard Had It Coming, Hornswoggled), is…
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