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Traitor
This is the fourth in Clements’ John Shakespeare series. John is Will’s older brother and an ‘intelligencer’ in the Queen’s…
Our Man in the Dark
John Estem is an accountant apprenticing with one of the few black CPAs in the country in the 1960s. Even…
The Solitary House
Disgraced former policeman Charles Maddox works as a private investigator in 1850s London. He takes a surprising assignment from a…
The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper
A manuscript is found at the bottom of a box of memorabilia belonging to S.G. Beamon (creator of Larry the…
Hawkwood
The Bow Street Runners, generally accepted as London’s first professional police force, was founded in 1749 and operated in London…
The Yard
London, 1889. Jack the Ripper has finished his work, but the police’s inability to apprehend him results in an openly…
The Bedlam Detective
Editors' choice
It’s not often I read a book in one sitting; with this novel, I didn’t leave my chair for so…
The Gods of Gotham
Editors' choice
It’s 1845 and, until now, New York City has had no police force. Many citizens believe that government interference in…
The Queen’s Secret
In 1575, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, drains his coffers to put on an Entertainment at Kenilworth Castle for Queen…
The Columbus Affair
This is a conspiracy thriller, a Quest that keeps closely to the rules of the genre, rules which Steve Berry…
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