Mystery/Crime
The Venus Deal
As World War II home front San Diego deals with blackouts and shortages, 37-year-old ex-cop Tom Hickey is moonlighting as…
The Keeper of Secrets
Editors' choice
This is certainly much more than a run-of-the-mill historical crime novel. A young and idealistic clergyman, the Reverend Tobias Campion,…
The Muscovy Chain
Can the modern genre of the detective story be transposed to cultural settings where there is no police force, no…
The Witch’s Trinity
Editors' choice
Mailman’s second historical novel, set in the small German town of Tierkinddorf between 1507 and 1510, explores the horror of…
Face down o’er the Border
n this 10th novel in the Face Down mystery series, Susanna Appleton, Elizabethan gentlewoman and sleuth, travels to Scotland to…
The Queen’s Handmaiden
Unwanted by her new stepfather, Eloise Rousell ends up in the care of her relation Kat Ashley, governess to Elizabeth…
Stream Of Death
This is the first paperback edition of Stream of Death. The story is set in bucolic Peekamoose Heights, a village…
Crusade
Editors' choice
Crusade is an epic tale of war, political intrigue, religious fervor, greed, and passion set in Acre of 1274. It…
Justice for the Damned
In the spring of 1272, Eleanor, the 22-year-old prioress of Tyndal Abbey, travels to Amesbury Priory to recover from a…
Heart of Ice
In Kent in the winter of 1194, King Richard I is still a prisoner in Europe, and England is being…
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