Mystery/Crime
The Crimson Cavalier
Pre-Regency London is the setting for this debut novel by Mary Andrea Clarke. Sir Robert Foster, whose reputation is far…
Shadows in the White City
Second in the Inspector Ransom series, set in Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair, this novel is part mystery, part…
The Pleasure Trap
From childhood, Eve Dearing has been haunted by her mother’s death. She and her mother shared the gift of “sight,”…
Shadows and Lies
This mystery begins in 1909 when a woman called Hannah Smith is badly injured in a London omnibus accident and…
Murder in Chinatown: A Gaslight Mystery
The murder of a lovely young Chinese-Irish-American girl from an affluent Chinatown family, shortly after her elopement with a handsome…
The Riddle of the River
1898. Cambridge. In this, the fifth of the Vanessa Weatherburn mysteries, a beautiful young girl is discovered floating in the…
The War Against Miss Winter
In 1943, even in New York City, the heart of American theatre, acting jobs are scarce, so struggling actress Rose…
The Wandering Ghost
Corporal Jill Matthewson, the first woman ever assigned to 2nd Division Military Police in the demilitarized zone of mid-1970s South…
St. Mungo’s Robin
This is the fourth book featuring Gil Cunningham, a notary, working and living in Glasgow in 1493. Suddenly, the warden…
Daughters of the Doge: A novel of Renaissance Venice
This is the second in the Richard Stocker series, quickly following on from the first novel published in 2006, In…
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