Crème de la Crime
Witch Hammer
The third book in M.L. Trow’s Kit Marlowe series finds the young playwright joining up with a group of actors…
The Straw Men
Set in 1381, Doherty’s twelfth in his Brother Athelstan series pits the insightful Dominican and Cranston, Lord Coroner, against both…
The Midnight Man
This is the seventh in a series by Doherty that uses the clever structure of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales on which…
Keeping Bad Company (A Liberty Lane Mystery)
At a gathering in London just prior to the First Opium War, “private inquiry agent” Liberty Lane is thrilled to…
Queen’s Bounty: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery
The latest installment in Buckley’s long-running Elizabethan mystery series featuring Ursula Blanchard finds Ursula in the midst of planning her…
The Constant Lovers
The winter of 1732 saw too many violent crimes and deaths. Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, is looking forward to…
Queen without a Crown: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery
In this ninth installment in the series, Ursula, now happily remarried and living a quiet existence as Elizabeth’s lady-in-waiting, seeks…
Dead Beat
It is 1963, and Kate O’Donnell has just moved from Liverpool to London to pursue a career in photography and,…
When the Devil Drives
When intrepid lady detective Liberty Lane is approached by a two very different clients – a diffident young man from…
Debt of Dishonour
This lively and engaging read opens when Georgiana Grey, otherwise known as the highwayman the Crimson Cavalier, is robbed at…
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