Ellen Keith
The Crocodile’s Last Embrace
American Jade del Cameron returns in her sixth mystery set in Africa in the 1920s. She misses Sam Featherstone, who…
Nashville Chrome
Author Rick Bass has told the remarkable story of the Browns, a country music trio with a brother and two…
The Mischief of the Mistletoe: A Pink Carnation Christmas
The Mischief of the Mistletoe is Willig’s seventh in the Pink Carnation series featuring turn-of-the-19th-century spies, whose tales are framed…
The Equivoque Principle
The Equivoque Principle promises to be the first in the Cornelius Quaint Chronicles. Quaint is the ringmaster of Dr. Marvello’s…
Treasure of the Golden Cheetah
1920s heroine Jade del Cameron returns in her fifth mystery set in Africa. Independent Jade is mulling over a marriage…
A Duty to the Dead
Editors' choice
Todd (the pseudonym for a mother-son writing team) departs from the Inspector Ian Rutledge series in this engrossing mystery featuring…
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily
Sixth in Willig’s series featuring present day academic Eloise Kelly researching the exploits of aristocratic English spies in the Napoleonic…
Prima Donna
Prima Donna is the story of 19th-century opera singer Sabine Conrad and how she went from stardom in New York…
Stardust
In 1945 Hollywood, the end of World War II, while cause for rejoicing, also ushered in the beginning of the…
Velva Jean Learns to Drive
Editors' choice
In 1933, when she is ten years old, Velva Jean Hart is saved for the first time. And she is…
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