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Blood Lance
Editors' choice
Late one night in 1386, Crispin Guest is walking along London Bridge when he encounters a man falling from the…
Death on Telegraph Hill
In this fifth and latest in the Sarah Woolson mystery series, we follow the young attorney and her brother Samuel…
The Resistance
When Louis Morgon arrives at a meeting with the Secretary of State, he assumes that he’s to be praised for…
Detroit Breakdown
Editors' choice
Detroit Breakdown follows Elizabeth Hume and Will Anderson as they unravel a murder at Eloise Insane Asylum outside of Detroit…
Behold a Pale Horse
What do we like best about a Peter Tremayne novel? The historical settings, the complex blend of mystery and adventure……
Invisible Country
At the end of the Triple Alliance War, in 1868, Paraguay is a devastated country. Facing a congregation with only…
Dead Man’s Tunnel
With a title like Dead Man’s Tunnel, you might think you are about to read an old Western or a…
In the Shadow of Paris
Writing under the pseudonym Claude Izner, two sisters (Liliane Korb and Laurence LeFevre) have conjured up a respectable and widely…
A Simple Murder
Maine, 1796, a Shaker settlement. The Shakers are a fascinating movement; their lifestyle and worldview could make for an absorbing…
Hush Now, Don’t You Cry
Irish immigrant Molly Murphy (now Molly Sullivan) returns in her eleventh outing in Bowen’s series. In the fall of 1903,…
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