Bethany Latham
The Accursed
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Princeton, 1905. President (of the university, not yet the US) Woodrow Wilson works up to apoplexy in his Herculean struggle…
The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
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Tristan Hart is a product of his time (the mid-18th century): conversant in Enlightenment philosophy but puzzled by the mechanics…
Out of the Black Land
Kerry Greenwood is known for Jazz Age mysteries, but Out of the Black Land is a different animal. Eighteenth dynasty…
The Opening Night Murder (A Restoration Mystery)
With Charles II’s restoration, Suzanne Thornton, an entrepreneuring former prostitute, receives license to put on plays at the Globe Theatre.…
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…
Death in Her Face
In post-WWII Hollywood, screenwriter Lauren Atwill and her private eye beau are hired to help with a potential PR nightmare…
Swimming with Serpents
As an Alabama native who’s visited Horseshoe Bend and knows descendants of William Weatherford, I was interested in this novel…
A Study in Revenge
1893, Portland, Maine. Deputy Marshal Archie Lean is called to investigate a burned body and strange occult symbols in an…
The Origin of Man
If I had to describe this book in a single word: frustrating. Some literary works that lack linear (or any)…
The Anatomist’s Wife (A Lady Darby Mystery)
1830. At a house party, a beautiful aristocrat is found murdered. Recently widowed Lady Kiera Darby, the hostess’s sister, investigates,…
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