Mystery/Crime
A Beautiful Blue Death
Yet another Victorian mystery series, you say? Yes… and this one starts off with a bang! Intelligent, witty, clever and…
In at the Death
Rome, in the reign of the Emperor Tiberius: a young man, with everything to live for, appears to commit suicide…
Murder on the Eiffel Tower
June 1889. The Eiffel Tower is the most popular exhibit of the Paris Exposition and thousands flock each day to…
The Traitor’s Tale
In 1450, England had been warring with France for almost a century. But the English were now on the losing…
The Sempster’s Tale
This is the latest in Margaret Frazer’s Dame Frevisse mystery series and is set in London during the reign of…
Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog
Philologist, critic, essayist and translator from the Japanese Grigory Chkhartishvili adopts the pen name of Boris Akunin for this anticipated…
Pelagia and the Black Monk
Did you know that Boris Akunin writes detective stories as well as thrillers? Neither did I, but the first two…
Broken Harmony
This is the first in a line of historical mysteries to be published by Crème de la Crime. The scene…
Penhallow
When a crime novel begins with the immortal words “Jimmy the Bastard was cleaning boots …” then the reader can…
The Quality of Mercy
The Quality of Mercy is the latest entry in the mystery series featuring a seemingly unlikely pair: British aristocrat Lord…
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