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The Family Way: A Molly Murphy Mystery
Lively private investigator Molly Sullivan née Murphy is now married to a police captain and expecting a baby. Daniel worries…
A Medal for Murder: A Kate Shackleton Mystery
Detective Kate Shackleton solves her second murder mystery in this fun, well-plotted mystery set in 1920s Harrogate. An amateur theatre…
The Hour of Peril
Abraham Lincoln’s train journey from Illinois to Washington becomes a dangerous rush towards safety in Daniel Stashower’s meticulous account of…
A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate
Calkins’s uneven debut mystery centers around chambermaid Lucy Campion, servant of a kindly magistrate’s family in Restoration England. When her…
Miss Dimple Rallies to the Cause
The stalwart Miss Dimple Kilpatrick is back again in this second charming mystery series. This time it’s 1943, and the…
Orders from Berlin
Life goes on in London, even under the Blitz—people work, fall in love, and occasionally get murdered. Deputy Chief Inspector…
Miss Dimple Suspects
A mystery is brewing in Elderberry, Georgia, and Dimple Kilpatrick is hot on the trail. When Mae Martha Hawthorne is…
The Midwife’s Tale
In June 1644, York midwife, widow, and gentlewoman Bridget Hodgson’s “gossip” Esther Cooper is accused of poisoning her strict, abusive…
Death in the Floating City
In Tasha Alexander’s most recent addition to her Lady Emily mystery series, we find the delightful Lady Emily Hargreaves accompanied…
A Death in the Small Hours
In Finch’s sixth Victorian mystery involving gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox (after A Burial at Sea, 2011), the former private investigator…
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