Mystery/Crime
The Sanctity of Hate
In the summer of 1276, the last Jews of England are scurrying to cities of refuge to comply with King…
An Inquiry into Love and Death
Some years after World War I, Oxford student Jillian Leigh must leave her intensive studies and go to the seacoast…
The Tree of Forgetfulness
Readers may avoid certain genres, eras, or styles; there are so many novels written, and we over-discriminate. But don’t let…
The Paris Winter
This historical mystery is set in the glitzy Belle Époque of Paris in the early years of the 20th century,…
And Then She Fell
Twenty-nine-year-old Henrietta Cynster is often called “The Matchbreaker” because she helps young women of the ton determine whether their suitors…
The Roots of Betrayal
In the sequel to his novel Sacred Treason, James Forrester returns to the story of the Elizabethan herald, William Harley,…
The Wrong Hill to Die On
The latest in the Alafair Tucker mystery series finds the 1916 Oklahoma mother of ten a fish out of water…
A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate
Calkins’s uneven debut mystery centers around chambermaid Lucy Campion, servant of a kindly magistrate’s family in Restoration England. When her…
Robert B. Parker’s Ironhorse
This is the fifth book in the Cole & Hitch saga, in which lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are…
Leaving Everything Most Loved: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
Editors' choice
In 1933 the body of Usha Pramal is found in a London canal, but Scotland Yard is slow to solve…
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