Mystery/Crime
Something Wicked
This is the ninth book in the Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne Golden Age of Detection murder mystery series.…
The Black Dove
Editors' choice
The long and the short of the Amlingmeyer brothers are back with a roar for their third adventure, this time…
A Christmas Beginning
Superintendent Runcorn of the Metropolitan Police has come to Anglesey to escape the loneliness of the Christmas season and his…
Death Was the Other Woman
Reading a good noir detective novel is like watching an old movie on a sleepless, rainy night. One is actually…
A Dead Man in Tangier
In Tangiers of 1912, pig-sticking is a popular recreation, albeit a dangerous one, and is enjoyed by Monsieur Bossu –…
Blood and Circuses
This is the 6th in a series of sixteen mysteries Kerry Greenwood has written featuring the Honourable Phryne Fisher, a…
The Last Train to Kazan
Ryzhkov, a former Tsarist agent who appeared in A Game of Soldiers, returns to Moscow only to be picked up…
The Shanghai Tunnel
This is the first in Sharan Newman’s Emily Stratton series. Newman always possesses the special key to a portal that…
Bury Her Deep
Editors' choice
Captivating and beautifully written, this third book in the Dandy Gilver mystery series is set in 1920s Scotland. Our heroine,…
The Blue Door
Eddie Cero is an unlikely private investigator. He has been making a living as a welterweight boxer, but his career…
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