Mary F. Burns
House of Earth
Editors' choice
“Life’s pretty tough—you’re lucky if you live through it.” This quote from Woody Guthrie sums up the outlook of the…
Midnight at Marble Arch
A new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery from Anne Perry is always cause for rejoicing among her fans, and this…
Kafka in Love
Kafka in Love presents a prose summary of hundreds if not thousands of letters and diary entries intently pored over…
Death and the Maiden: A Max Liebermann Mystery
Sixth in a series starring psychoanalyst Max Liebermann, a “consulting” psychiatrist to the Prague police department, Death and the Maiden…
The Assassin’s Wife
Young Nan sees dead people – as well as those about to die, be murdered or burned at the stake.…
Celluloid Strangers
Four brothers—Mori, Joe, Simon and Benny—move from the mean streets of Dorchester, Massachusetts to the cleaner but no less menacing…
Laws in Conflict
The latest in the series The Burren Mysteries about Mara the “lady judge” (or the “brehon” in Gaelic) crackles with…
The Midnight Man
This is the seventh in a series by Doherty that uses the clever structure of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales on which…
The Twelve Rooms of the Nile
Editors' choice
Who could have imagined that Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert would be so good together? Apparently, Enid Shomer did just…
The White Forest
I almost thought this was going to be “just” a Gothic thriller, but it quickly became so much more—a dark,…
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