Mystery/Crime
Deed of Murder
The O’Halloran clan has grown flax and produced linen for years. It is their principal means of support, and Mara,…
The Tale of Castle Cottage
In the final installment of The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, it is 1913 and Beatrix is busy trying to…
A Spark of Death
Pajer’s debut novel, the first in a proposed series, introduces us to an unlikely sleuth. Benjamin Bradshaw is a professor…
The Revenant
The year is 1896, and 17-year-old Willemina Hammond finds herself on a train headed to her new teaching position at…
Dead End in Norvelt
Jack Gantos is both author and hero in this novel set in 1962 in the town of Norvelt (named after…
Revenger
This is the second novel by Clements featuring the Elizabethan ‘intelligencer’, John Shakespeare. His more famous younger brother pops up…
Murder on Sisters’ Row
Fans of Victoria Thompson and her Gaslight Mystery series will enjoy Murder on Sisters’ Row, the latest Sarah Brandt story.…
Faithful Unto Death
Based upon an actual event in Benzonia, Michigan, in 1894, Becky Thacker spins a psychological drama set in a farming…
Cross My Palm
London ladies in the 1860s loved to hold supper parties and have their fortunes told. Fortune-teller Miss Rose Lee is…
When the Devil Drives
When intrepid lady detective Liberty Lane is approached by a two very different clients – a diffident young man from…
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