Poisoned Pen
Fatal Induction
I don’t mind starting a series late in the game. If I like the book, that means I’ve got earlier…
Danger in the Wind
This fourth Aurelia Marcella mystery set in Roman Britain opens with a birthday invitation sent to the innkeeper sleuth from…
The Eighth Veil
A girl is drowned and her throat cut in the baths of Herod’s palace in 28 CE. Her killer fails…
Mercury’s Rise
In book four of the Silver Rush series, Inez Stannert travels through the Rocky Mountains to Manitou, Colorado, eager to…
A Killing Season
Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal of the Order of Fontevraud and her companion arrive at a castle on the English coast…
Nine for the Devil
This is the ninth and latest entry in the John the Eunuch series, set in the time of Justinian, the…
Comes a Time for Burning
This second book about Dr. Thomas Parks, who practices medicine in 1892 in the Pacific Northwest, is just as enjoyable…
A Spark of Death
Pajer’s debut novel, the first in a proposed series, introduces us to an unlikely sleuth. Benjamin Bradshaw is a professor…
Crying Blood
Set in 1915 on a thriving Oklahoma farm, the Tucker family is embroiled in another mystery when a decade-old skeleton…
Escape Artist
This is the second Edna Ferber mystery, being a prequel to Ifkovic’s Lone Star. In Escape Artist, it is 1904…
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