M.J. Trow

Breaking the Circle (A Margaret Murray mystery, 2)

By M.J. Trow - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Found face down in her bowl of mulligatawny soup, Muriel Fazakerley is the first medium to meet an untimely death in this second ...Read Review

Four Thousand Days (A Margaret Murray mystery, 1)

By M.J. Trow - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Archaeology focuses on the past, not on the dawn of the 20th century. So, for lecturer Margaret Murray (her doctorate appears merely decorative), ...Read Review

The Knight’s Tale (A Geoffrey Chaucer mystery, 1)

By M.J. Trow - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Trow has written several historical mystery series, including one featuring the playwright Christopher Marlowe, so turning his attention to another English literary luminary, ...Read Review

The Black Hills (A Grand & Batchelor Victorian Mystery)

By M.J. Trow - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeWestern

George Armstrong Custer was famous for his service during the War Between the States, that is, the Civil War. But he is definitely ...Read Review

Black Death (A Tudor mystery featuring Christopher Marlowe)

By M.J. Trow - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

It’s 1592 in London, and playwright/sleuth Christopher Marlowe receives a letter from archenemy Robert Greene shortly after his death to investigate it ...Read Review

The Ring: A Victorian Mystery (A Grand & Batchelor Mystery)

By M.J. Trow - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Set during the1870s in London, The Ring finds private inquiry agents Matthew Grand and James Batchelor hired by oddball timber merchant Selwyn ...Read Review

The Queen’s Progress

By M.J. Trow - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Since the reign of Henry VIII, monarchs have ventured into the countryside in the summertime to escape the oppressive heat (and sometimes plague) ...Read Review

The Island: A Grand and Batchelor Victorian Mystery

By M.J. Trow - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The post-Civil War adventures continue for London-based enquiry agents Matthew Grand and James Batchelor. It’s 1873, and Matthew’s sister Martha is marrying ...Read Review

Eleventh Hour

By M.J. Trow - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Eleventh Hour is the 8th in the Kit Marlowe series. In this installment, Marlowe seeks to find the potential murderer of Sir Francis ...Read Review

The Circle

By M.J. Trow - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In his second post-Civil War mystery (after The Blue and the Grey, HNR May 2015), Trow, a Welsh-born writer, again places his enquiry agents (...Read Review