Mystery/Crime
The Dying Crapshooter’s Blues
David Fulmer’s 1920s Atlanta is a city torn by racial and class strife and patrolled by a poorly managed and…
Stalking Ivory
American Jade del Cameron returns in her second mystery, following Mark of the Lion. In her first adventure, Jade, who…
Season of the Burning Souls
If most historical fiction is a glass of milk, Season of the Burning Souls is a tiki drink made out…
Why Shoot a Butler?
When barrister Frank Amberley, who happens to dabble in amateur detection, comes upon a dead body in an abandoned car,…
The Unfinished Clue
The scene is 1933: a weekend country house party at The Grange, courtesy of General Sir Arthur Billington-Smith and his…
Lipstick and Lies
Pucci Lewis, a young Women’s Airforce Service Pilot doing home front service during World War II, needs Amelia Earhart’s saddle…
Vashti
When two assistant curators die unexpectedly of gastric influenza, Tansy Clark’s retired policeman father asks her to investigate, and she…
The Blackest Bird
On a July Sunday morning in 1841, Mary Cecilia Rogers left her mother’s house on Nassau Street in New York…
Resurrectionist
The setting is Regency London. Robbing fresh graves to supply the city’s anatomy schools and hospitals is a profitable business;…
Woman of Ill Fame
Nora Simms, a prostitute, sails to San Francisco in 1849, hoping to do well for herself during the gold rush.…
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