Mystery/Crime
Escaping From Houdini (Stalking Jack the Ripper)
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Audrey Rose Wadsworth is at it again. Born to a life of privilege as the daughter of a lord, Wadsworth eschews the social ...Read Review
The Betel Nut Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)
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Chen Su Lin is a secretarial assistant to Chief Inspector LeFroy in this 1930s murder mystery set in Singapore. She is drawn into ...Read Review
The Syndicate
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This is a sequel to the author’s 2017 novel The Pictures, reviewed in HNR issue 80. It is the United States in the summer ...Read Review
Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets (Gilded Age Mystery)
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New York, 1889. Heiress Prudence McKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter are hired by Claire Buchanan, who suspects her sister’s death wasn’t caused ...Read Review
The Hangman’s Secret: A Victorian Mystery
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Sara Bain returns in Rowland’s third installment of her Victorian Mystery series (after A Mortal Likeness), and this time Sara and her ...Read Review
A Christmas Railway Mystery (Railway Detective)
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A headless body with bound wrists and ankles lies in the workshop of the Great Western Railway at Swindon and is identified by ...Read Review
Murder on Millionaires’ Row: A Mystery
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Rose Gallagher is the daughter of an Irish immigrant and the sole support for her invalid mother. She works as a housemaid for ...Read Review
A Gentlewoman’s Guide to Murder
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Miss Emmeline St. Germaine, known to her friends as ‘The Avengeress,’ has been rescuing small girls, servants in homes of the wealthy, who ...Read Review
Five Days, Five Dead (The China Bohannon Series)
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Five Days, Five Dead is the fifth book in the China Bohannon mystery series. In this installment, China is hired by a wealthy ...Read Review
The Coronation: A Fandorin Mystery
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1896: The Romanov imperial family and heads of state from around the world gather in Moscow for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II. Among ...Read Review