Mystery/Crime
Death in Hellfire
This is the latest novel in Deryn Lake’s excellent John Rawlings mystery series. After his adventures in Cornwall, told in…
The Alehouse Murders
AD 1200. In the bustling town of Lincoln, summer heat and drenching rain threaten to mar the festivities of the…
The Chase
In 1950, Montana’s Flathead Lake gives up a dark secret: the remains of a steam locomotive (plus boxcar) and its…
Folly du Jour
Paris, 21 May 1927. Commander Joe Sandilands DSO of Scotland Yard lands at Le Bourget airport seconds before Charles Lindbergh…
The Serpent’s Tale
Adelia Aguilar is still in England after her detecting adventures as chronicled in Mistress of the Art of Death. King…
Vienna Blood
Editors' choice
In this, the second installment of the Liebermann Papers, Tallis, a practicing clinical psychologist, beautifully evokes the upheaval in the…
Shrouds of Holly
This latest installment in the popular Pennyfoot Hotel series continues the often bumbling efforts of heroine Cecily Sinclair Baxter to…
Women of Magdalene
Robert Mallory is a young doctor who saw three years of horrifying medical service in the Civil War. Estranged from…
Touchstone
Laurie R. King gave us the brilliant recreation of Sherlock Holmes with more depth than Conan Doyle ever mustered in…
Something Wicked
This is the ninth book in the Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne Golden Age of Detection murder mystery series.…
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