Mystery/Crime
Though the Heavens May Fall
Amos Hawke, a Scotland Yard detective, is given the opportunity to return to his native Cornwall supposedly to trace his…
The Cliff House Strangler
In this, Tallman’s third Sarah Woolson mystery, the spunky late 19th-century attorney deals with the titled investigation while working to…
The Lady Grace Mysteries: Haunted
(1) 1570. Queen Elizabeth is on her summer Royal Progress and the court is staying with Reynold Waldegrave, 5th Earl…
The Penalty
A young soccer star from the poorest community of Puerto Rico goes mysteriously missing after performing uncharacteristically badly in an…
Silent in the Sanctuary
Silent in the Sanctuary reacquaints the readers of Silent in the Grave with widowed Lady Julia Grey and the inscrutable…
Rhiannon
In 12th-century England, fourteen-year-old Rhiannon is fascinated by the fate of King Henry’s White Ship, wrecked just months before. After…
Territory
Territory is a western murder mystery with magic at its core. Jesse Fox left his Eastern college to travel West,…
The Chrysalis
Attorney Mara Coyne’s firm is hired by art-auction-house Beazley’s to defend the ownership of The Chrysalis, a 17th-century Dutch painting.…
The Bone Garden
This story begins in present-day Boston, where Julia Hamill is newly divorced. While working in the overgrown garden of her…
An Incomplete Revenge
Wandering gypsies and East Enders from London converge in 1931 for the traditional September hops-picking by migrant workers, in the…
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