Ellen Keith
Smoke Portrait
What if you wrote a letter that went to the wrong address, and it was answered in the guise of…
Fatal Induction
I don’t mind starting a series late in the game. If I like the book, that means I’ve got earlier…
Lehrter Station
This is the fifth novel in Downing’s series that features World War II era journalist John Russell, and the first…
Kaltenburg
There are some people who dominate the lives of others. Ludwig Kaltenburg is such a person. His tale is narrated…
The Big Town
The “big town” is any big town, and the time is 1929, the summer before the crash. Harry Hennesey is…
An Unmarked Grave
In 1918, nurse Bess Crawford sees a murdered soldier amid the piles of the dead who have succumbed to influenza…
House of the Hunted
In 1919 Petrograd, Tom Nash is a young British agent with a plan to free his Russian girlfriend from prison.…
Death at Woods Hole
Chicagoan and scholar Emily Cabot has escaped the heat of her hometown to spend the summer of 1894 on Cape…
To Do or Die
To Do or Die covers just thirteen days in September 1939, but oh, what harrowing days they are! Eddie Dawson,…
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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