2007
The Traitor’s Tale
In 1450, England had been warring with France for almost a century. But the English were now on the losing…
Cold Cache
Kent Rasmussen, an officer of the North West Mounted Police, is leaving the force to return home to his mother…
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…
The War of Knives
The year is 1800, and the Haitian revolution has become a brutal civil war. Lieutenant Matty Graves of the U.S.…
Northfield: A Western Story
Few American criminals enjoy the attention paid to Jesse James and his gang of Confederate guerrillas and post-Civil War bank…
Companions of Paradise
Continuing the saga of A Singular Hostage and A Beggar at the Gate, Englishwoman Mariana Givens has been separated from…
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…
John’s Story: The Last Eyewitness (Book One of the Jesus Chronicles)
This latest novel from the authors of the “Left Behind” series floats an interesting premise: a novel about the writing…
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