Mystery/Crime
A Wolf in Hindelheim
Rural Germany, 1926. Set in an isolated small village, this story relates a series of strange events and the human…
Marbeck and the King in Waiting
As Queen Elizabeth lies dying in England in 1603, the plots for a favored successor begin. The Queen’s Master Secretary,…
The Hidden
The Hidden is an aggressive debut novel that dares to take on a complex plot set in two time periods,…
The Shogun’s Daughter
The Shogun’s daughter has died a victim of smallpox, and with her the possibility of an heir. But all is…
Tapestry
Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler make up the intriguing duo of detectives fighting everyday crime in Paris during the German…
Blind Justice
In this, the 19th installment in Perry’s William Monk series, a moral dilemma is presented to us: if someone knows…
A Case of Doubtful Death
The Life House, despite its name, is a waiting mortuary near Kensal Green Cemetery, in which corpses are left to…
A Burden Shared
This book, set in Dundee in 1849, is the second in a series featuring Detective Sergeant Mendick, following The Darkest…
Fallen Women
Beret Osmundsen arrives in a Denver police station in the spring of 1885, determined to discover who murdered her younger…
Blackstone and the Endgame
1916. After an incident in which Sam Blackstone is (probably) set up, he is on the run like an ordinary…
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