Mystery/Crime
The Ides of April
As a fan of the Marcus Didius Falco series, I jumped at the opportunity to review this first installment in…
Antidote to Murder
Dr. Dody McCleland, England’s first woman autopsy surgeon, returns in this second book by Felicity Young. Opening in June 1911,…
The Twelfth Department
This is the third in William Ryan’s Soviet detective series set in 1930s Moscow. Captain Korolev, hero of the Revolution…
Murder as a Fine Art
Editors' choice
It’s 1854 in London, and a murderer has just carefully recreated the most heinous mass murder of that century, a…
A Question of Honor: A Bess Crawford Mystery
Fifth in the Bess Crawford series, A Question of Honor moves between India in 1908, when Bess is fifteen, and…
The Passion of the Purple Plumeria
Lauren Willig’s dazzling series about spies of the Napoleonic era has just been enriched by the addition of her latest…
Blood Tango
In a little over a week in October of 1945, Juan Perón went from vice-president of Argentina to a disgraced…
Death and the Olive Grove
Florence, Italy sets the scene for this murder mystery, in which we find Inspector Bordelli and his partner Piras following…
The Bride Box
In 1913, while Egypt’s nominal head is a Khedive, the country is actually controlled by the British High Commissioner. Captain…
The Christmas Wassail
This is The latest in Kate Sedley’s string of Roger the Chapman mysteries, set in 15th-century England and featuring a…
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