Mystery/Crime
Sutton
Pulitzer Prize winner Moehringer does not tell you a couple of things in his brief author’s note about the facts…
Lucky Bunny
The title of Jill Dawson’s seventh novel, Lucky Bunny, is ironic. The white bunny that Queenie Dove receives as a…
A Lack of Temperance
The Hattie Davish mystery series is off to a promising start. The young amateur sleuth is a traveling secretary with…
The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes
June Thomson has published a number of these pastiches of the famous stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. They all consist…
Triple Play
Nate Heller’s cases involve known historical murders which the Chicago private detective solves and resolves. The first of the three…
Alone in the Classroom
Set in Canada and moving in time between more modern times and the era of the Great Depression, the novel…
Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City
This is a broad-brush account of London’s most notorious crimes from the Middle Ages up to the present day, together…
Blood Lance
Editors' choice
Late one night in 1386, Crispin Guest is walking along London Bridge when he encounters a man falling from the…
Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
The Shadow of Death, despite its ominous title, is first in a series of interconnected, gentle mysteries set in 1953,…
Death on Telegraph Hill
In this fifth and latest in the Sarah Woolson mystery series, we follow the young attorney and her brother Samuel…
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