Mystery/Crime
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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