Frances McNamara

Three-Decker Murder in a Nutshell

By Frances McNamara - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In December 1919, Boston medical examiner Dr. George “Jake” Magrath chides a young police detective for removing the body of a young woman from ...Read Review

Molasses Murder in a Nutshell (A Nutshell Murder Mystery)

By Frances McNamara - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Minutes after Theresa Ryan finds her sister Maggie dead in her bathtub, the floor beneath her rumbles and caves, and waves of thick, ...Read Review

Death in a Time of Spanish Flu (Emily Cabot Mysteries Book 9)

By Frances McNamara - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This ninth Emily Cabot mystery opens in October 1918 in Chicago. Emily is married to Dr. Stephen Chapman and hasn’t really caught up ...Read Review

Death on the Homefront (Emily Cabot Mysteries)

By Frances McNamara - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Frances McNamara’s latest Emily Cabot mystery once again explores the amateur sleuth’s Chicago haunts. Our heroine has matured since the previous ...Read Review

Death at the Selig Studios

By Frances McNamara - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

University of Chicago sociologist and amateur sleuth Emily Cabot finds herself in the midst of a mystery that hits a bit too close ...Read Review

Death at the Paris Exposition

By Frances McNamara - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In McNamara’s first mystery featuring Emily Cabot, Emily investigated a death at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. In Emily’...Read Review

Death at Chinatown

By Frances McNamara - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The fifth in the Emily Cabot mystery series sees Emily, now married and the mother of small children, coping with a seemingly uncaring ...Read Review

Death at Woods Hole

By Frances McNamara - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Chicagoan and scholar Emily Cabot has escaped the heat of her hometown to spend the summer of 1894 on Cape Cod, at the Marine ...Read Review

Death at Pullman

By Frances McNamara - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this third mystery in the series, set in Chicago in 1894, we find Emily Cabot working at Hull House for Jane Addams and ...Read Review

Death at Hull House

By Frances McNamara - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the second in a series featuring Emily Cabot of Boston. The year is 1893, and Emily has been expelled from the recently ...Read Review