Carroll & Graf
The Silk Train Murder
The debut of a new historical mystery series featuring English-gentleman-turned- detective John Landsdowne Granville, this turn-of-the-20th-century adventure is set in…
The Nicholas Feast
This is the second book in the Gil Cunningham series and begins, ‘Gil Cunningham said later that if he had…
Something Wicked
This is the ninth book in the Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne Golden Age of Detection murder mystery series.…
A Dead Man in Tangier
In Tangiers of 1912, pig-sticking is a popular recreation, albeit a dangerous one, and is enjoyed by Monsieur Bossu –…
A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths
This is an absorbing hotch potch of a book, more in the tradition of Graves’s Greek Myths than a straightforward…
Capote In Kansas: A Ghost Story
Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee, two illustrious Southern authors: one flamboyant, brazen and pretentious, the other seemingly sensible and…
St. Mungo’s Robin
This is the fourth book featuring Gil Cunningham, a notary, working and living in Glasgow in 1493. Suddenly, the warden…
The Quality of Mercy
The Quality of Mercy is the latest entry in the mystery series featuring a seemingly unlikely pair: British aristocrat Lord…
Death on the Nevskii Prospekt
Russia, terrorist capital of the world at the beginning of the 20th century. In St Petersburg the body of an…
The Moon in Our Hands
In the aftermath of a brutal lynching, bystanders begin sifting through charred ashes, taking a ring, scraps of the victim’s…
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