Mystery/Crime
Queen’s Bounty: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery
The latest installment in Buckley’s long-running Elizabethan mystery series featuring Ursula Blanchard finds Ursula in the midst of planning her…
Death at Woods Hole
Chicagoan and scholar Emily Cabot has escaped the heat of her hometown to spend the summer of 1894 on Cape…
The White Forest
I almost thought this was going to be “just” a Gothic thriller, but it quickly became so much more—a dark,…
The Murderer’s Tale
There is a new prioress at St. Frideswide’s nunnery, and Dame Frevisse finds it difficult to get on with her.…
The Seventh Gate
Editors' choice
Sophie Riedesel is a young Christian German girl growing up in Berlin in the 1930s. Her father is a Communist…
Blessed are the Dead
Editors' choice
It’s difficult to decide what is best about Malla Nunn’s most recent novel, Blessed are the Dead. The setting is…
Fate
Editors' choice
In 1717, on his 17th birthday, Lord Francis Damory discovers a book linking him to his great-great grandfather, Tobias, an…
The Candle Man
Few events in recent history hold such a fascination or resonance as the Whitechapel murders in 1888 and the sinking…
The Trip to Jerusalem
In Elizabethan London, theatre is booming. But then come rumours of plague, and Lord Westfield’s Men theatre company must seek…
Edge of Dark Water
May Lynn dreamed about being a movie star, and when she gets murdered, her three teenaged friends decide to take…
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