Mystery/Crime
Murder on the Breakers
Emma Cross, a society reporter and poorer Vanderbilt relation, borders on respectability with her re-styled gowns and a summer cottage…
Silence for the Dead
In 1919, young Kitty Weeks is fleeing her past and her abusive father. Forging her credentials, she secures a nursing…
The Revenant of Thraxton Hall
The first in a series dubbed “The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,” The Revenant of Thraxton Hall features…
Her Last Assassin
This is the third novel featuring Lucy Morgan, lady-in-waiting to a now aging Queen Elizabeth I, Lucy’s guardian Faithful Goodluck,…
Men of Violence
Fifth in the John Henry Cole series, this Western’s protagonist is a frontier detective. A former lawman, he now collects…
The House of Bathory
House of Bathory is a thrilling read that takes readers back and forth from the early 17th century Cachtice Castle…
The King’s Corrodian
A widely disliked lay pensioner, the corrodian of the title, has seemingly vanished from a locked chamber within Perth’s Dominican…
Murder in Murray Hill
The obstacles keeping midwife Sarah Brandt and policeman Frank Malloy from teaming up romantically fell away by the end of the…
Rest Not in Peace
Bampton Castle, near Oxford, England, 1368: This, the sixth chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon, finds Hugh settled down both…
City of Darkness and Light, A Molly Murphy Mystery
It’s 1905, and Molly Murphy, former private investigator, settles into domestic life as Mrs. Daniel Sullivan with their baby son,…
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