Mystery/Crime
The Caspian Amulet
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In 1901, Baku, now the capital of Azerbaijan, was an oil-producing powerhouse within the Russian Empire. It’s a part of the world and ...Read Review
Round Up the Unusual Suspects: A Babs Norman Golden Age of Hollywood Mystery
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1942 Hollywood. Babs Norman and Guy Brandt, private detectives, are called to a Warner Brothers set of the movie Yankee Doodle Dandy. A man ...Read Review
A Botanist’s Guide to Tradition and Treachery
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This is book 5 of the Saffron Everleigh mysteries, set in the 1920s, when women have begun claiming new public lives. Saffron is a ...Read Review
The Kindness of Strangers
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We start with a man gasping on the floor as his life snuffs out and a group of strangers look on, aghast. How ...Read Review
The Midnight Guests
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The Midnight Guests begins at 2pm on 1 May 1926 with the opening of the upmarket Hotel Artemis in Mayfair, London. The hotel was created ...Read Review
Hypocrite’s Row
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Miami, Florida. This novel begins with tragedy, and Nate Moran, Miami police detective, having to give the worst possible news to the wife ...Read Review
The Raven’s Price: A Margaret of Scotland Medieval Mystery
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The Raven’s Price, set in 1071, is the second book in a mystery series anchored by Queen Margaret of Scotland as the sleuth. ...Read Review
The Tembusu Tree Mystery
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The tenth novel in Ovidia Yu’s cosy mystery series, with her female sleuth Chen Su Lin, is set in 1947 Singapore in the ...Read Review
Murder at the Gasworks
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London, 1860, and ten-year-old Tommy Jones returns to his lodgings after a day laboring at the gasworks to find his friend, stoker Joe Carter, ...Read Review
Murder at the Spirit Lounge
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1950s Kent. Former nun Nora Breen is bemused when her normally sceptical friend Detective Inspector Rideout accepts an invitation to a private sé...Read Review
