Mystery/Crime

The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall

By Mary Downing Hahn - Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyMystery/Crime

When 12-year-old Florence boards the horse-drawn coach in London that will take her from the orphanage where she’s spent the past seven ...Read Review

The Double Life of Cora Parry

By Angela McAllister - Published 2011

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyMystery/Crime

When orphan Cora’s brutal guardian dies, she imagines she will be free to do whatever she wants. Instead, she finds she is ...Read Review

The King’s Evil

By Edward Marston - Published 1999Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The King’s Evil is a reprint of the first of the Christopher Redmayne novels published in 1999, a historical mystery series set in ...Read Review

Bloodline Rising

By Katy Moran - Published 2009Published 2011

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

I recently heard a panel of speakers struggle to define what made a book fit into the “young adult” genre. “Better writing,” they ...Read Review

The Repentant Rake

By Edward Marston - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In a London still recovering from the Great Fire, Christopher Redmayne is busy pursuing his architect’s career when his rakehell brother Henry ...Read Review

Revolver

By Marcus Sedgwick - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

1910: the Scandinavian Arctic. Sixteen-year-old Sig Andersson’s stepmother and sister, Anna, are out. He is alone in the log cabin, save for the ...Read Review

Palace of Justice

By Susanne Alleyn - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

October 1793, Paris: Marie Antoinette is on her way to the guillotine, and police investigator Aristide Ravel realizes that a headless body found by ...Read Review

Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend

By Harold Schechter - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

After their father loses his wealth, brothers John and Sam Colt suffer a dissolute youth in early 19th century America. John, the more ...Read Review

Mister Darcy’s Secret

By Jane Odiwe - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

Continuing a novel like Pride and Prejudice is a daring enterprise, and Jane Odiwe comes to it steeped in Austen, in all her ...Read Review

The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science

By Douglas Starr - Published 2010Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

In the tradition of Larson’s Thunderstruck but with superior narrative focus, Starr examines two men whose lives intersect, resulting in scientific advancement ...Read Review