Poisoned Pen Press
Lipstick and Lies
Pucci Lewis, a young Women’s Airforce Service Pilot doing home front service during World War II, needs Amelia Earhart’s saddle…
Hornswoggled
Hornswoggled is the second mystery (following The Old Buzzard Had It Coming) in Donis Casey’s series featuring Alafair Tucker, a…
The Torch Of Tangier
Archaeologist Lily Sampson, last seen in Jerusalem in A Fly Has a Hundred Eyes, is now in wartime Tangier. Work…
Cruel Music
Third in her series of Baroque mysteries, Beverle Graves Myers’s Cruel Music finds Venetian castrato Tito Amato involved in the…
Iron Ties
In Leadville, Colorado, in 1880, the town is waiting for the railroad to be constructed, but not everyone is happy…
Witch Cradle
Although set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in 1950, Hunter’s Dance, Kathleen Hills’ previous book in her John McIntire series, could…
The Hunter’s Dance
For fans of detective mysteries, there is a lot to enjoy in this, the second appearance of township constable John…
Murder On The Ballarat Train
This is the third book of the adventures of the Honourable Phryne Fisher, lady detective, set in 1920s Australia. Phryne…
Flying Too High
Sprightly, witty, fast-moving – all describe both this mystery and its heroine. Phryne (pronounced fry-nee) Fisher is named for an…
Death At Victoria Dock
This is the fourth in that delightful 1920s mystery series by Kerry Greenwood about the Honourable Phryne Fisher. Phryne is…
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