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Mystery/Crime

The Vanishing at Loxby Manor

By Abigail Wilson - Published 2021

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In this Regency Noir romantic mystery, Loxby Manor is supposed to be a place of comfort for Charity Halliwell. After being suddenly whisked ...Read Review

Portrait of Peril: A Victorian Mystery

By Laura Joh Rowland - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

Rowland opens the fifth in the Victorian mystery series centered on Sarah Bain at the photographer/sleuth’s long-anticipated wedding to Det. Sgt. ...Read Review

The Sign of the Gallows (A Lucy Campion Mystery 5)

By Susanna Calkins - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

London, 1667. Lucy Campion is traveling to market when she’s almost run over by two men with a handcart. Subsequently, she discovers a ...Read Review

A Sinister Service (A Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery)

By Alyssa Maxwell - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

The sixth installment of the Lady and Lady’s Maid cozy mysteries takes us to rural Staffordshire, where the smoke clouds from the ...Read Review

The Secrets of Winter: A Josephine Tey Mystery

By Nicola Upson - Published 2020

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Mystery/Crime

In this ninth entry of the popular and imaginative series, famed mystery writer Josephine Tey and friends descend upon the beautiful and isolated ...Read Review

Ace Boon Coon (Tales of Elliot Caprice)

By Danny Gardner - Published 2020

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Mystery/Crime

Author Danny Gardner immediately plunges readers into the thick of the action in Ace Boon Coon. The book is his second novel featuring ...Read Review

The Dark Heart of Florence (Lady Emily Mysteries, 15)

By Tasha Alexander - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

The latest installment in the Lady Emily series finds the clever and curious titular character in Florence, investigating a string of burglaries and ...Read Review

Death in the Great Dismal (A Will Rees Mystery 9)

By Eleanor Kuhns - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

It is 1800 in Maine, and Will Rees agrees to accompany his friend Tobias, a former slave, on a dangerous journey back into the ...Read Review

The Lost Apothecary

By Sarah Penner - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

Penner’s debut weaves an enthralling tale of a modern woman whose discovery of a centuries-old serial killer helps her come to terms ...Read Review

A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem (A Lady’s Guide, 1)

By Manda Collins - Published 2020

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Mystery/Crime Romance

When she meets like-minded Caro Hardcastle at a boring dinner party, widowed businesswoman Lady Katherine Bascomb invites her to co-author a new column ...Read Review