Mystery/Crime
Murder at Old St. Thomas’s
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London, 1862. The body of Thaddeus Morton, famous surgeon, sits upright and nailed to one of the seats in the operating theater of Old ...Read Review
W.: A Novel
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W. is based on the 1821 true crime story of Johann Christian Woyzeck of Leipzig, who murdered his lover in a jealous rage and ...Read Review
Villainy in Vienna: A Fiona Figg Mystery
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Former file clerk and newly minted spy for British Intelligence, Fiona Figg, is up to her Sacher tortes in intrigue. She’s been ...Read Review
The Forty Elephants
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If you have a weakness for lawless female characters, as I do, then this is the book for you. The Forty Elephants was ...Read Review
Harlem Sunset (A Harlem Renaissance Mystery)
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This novel, second in the Harlem Renaissance Mystery series, is a continuation, not a standalone. Not having read Dead Dead Girls first, it ...Read Review
A Taste for Killing (Bradecote & Catchpoll 10)
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Master Godfrey Bowyer and his wife Blanche are arguing again, and throwing crockery, within earshot of the servants, Gode, Runild and Alwin, who ...Read Review
Murder at the Priory Hotel (A Flora Steele Mystery Book 4)
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The fourth in the Flora Steele cosy mystery series sparks into action, with almost no preamble, as opening day for the recently refurbished ...Read Review
Havana Highwire (A Cuban Noir Novel, 1)
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Private investigator Henry Gore has seen better days. After a failed attempt to get a photo of a cheating husband in Cuba’s ...Read Review
The Physicists’ Daughter
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The trend of catching up with women who’ve made historic choices and actions often focuses on those who were “famous” or at ...Read Review
Harmon Creek
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In small-town 1930s Texas, Alvin McIntyre is the district attorney. Earl Swanger wants to defeat him. Two weeks before the primary, Earl is ...Read Review