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Fever Moon
A feeling of profound sorrow permeates Carolyn Haines’ latest novel, Fever Moon. Set in the 1940s deep in the Louisiana…
The Water Thief
The Water Thief is a puzzle within a conundrum – an academic mystery turned deadly. In 304 C.E. Aelius Spartianus,…
The Assassins of Isis
This is the fifth Egyptian murder mystery starring Lord Amerotke, the Pharaoh’s chief judge. It is a quick- paced adventure…
Run Afoul
Joan Druett is a New Zealander known for her nonfiction writings on maritime history. She also writes historical fiction by…
Our Lady of Pain
The fourth installment in this post-Edwardian mystery series finds Lady Rose Summer and Captain Harry Cathcart still pretending to be…
Game of Patience
When two people are found murdered in post-revolutionary Paris, police agent Aristide Ravel investigates. Ravel discovers the male victim…
Bloodline
Natasha Blake, a research genealogist, is hired to research the family history of John Hellier, the boyfriend of Charles…
Days of Rage
This latest entry in the Smokey Dalton series concerns the racial politics of Chicago in 1969. In the background of…
The Shape of Sand
In 1910, Harriet Jardine and her siblings left their country manor after their mother’s disappearance and their father’s suicide. From…
The Empress of India
On and off over a period of nearly thirty years, Kurland has been chronicling the adventures of Sherlock Holmes’s most…
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