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Damn Yankee: Murder in Myrtle Beach
In this hardboiled-style mystery, Frankie McKeller is a “damn Yankee,” that is, a transplant from the North now living in…
A Short Time to Stay Here
In 1918, the little town of Hot Springs, North Carolina, held the largest World War I internment camp in the…
Confederado: A Novel of the Americas
After the American Civil War, thousands of Southerners migrated to South America seeking a new life. In fact, the Immigration…
Getorix: Games of the Underworld
The second book in Judith Geary’s popular Getorix series finds the young Celt in Rome, treading the line between slave…
The Ocean Forest: Murder in Myrtle Beach
In the ’40s, the Ocean Forest in Myrtle Beach is a grand hotel frequented by the Southern upper class, of…
The Corpus Conundrum: A Third Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger
As the title suggests, this is the third book of a series featuring Pliny the Younger. Using Pliny’s first person…
The Chamomile
Lilyan Cameron runs a wallpapering and artist shop in 1780 Charlestown, South Carolina. The future “Charleston” is under siege from…
The Blood of Caesar: A Second Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger
I’m a fan of historical mysteries but hadn’t read Albert A. Bell’s work before, and was thrilled to discover this…
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