Mystery/Crime
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
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London, 1895. For ten days, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his younger brother have been doing boy-type things: visiting the seaside, theatre, and cricket matches, ...Read Review
The Great Revolt: A Brother Athelstan Medieval Mystery
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This is the tenth Brother Athelstan mystery in the series, and Doherty delivers crime and politics in equal measure. In 1381, his “diminutive Dominican” ...Read Review
What Gold Buys: A Silver Rush Mystery
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This is the fifth in Parker’s Silver Rush mystery series, set in Leadville, Colorado in the 1880s. I haven’t read the ...Read Review
The Mysterious Affair at Castaway House
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Rosie Churchill, aged eighteen in 1965, has run away from home, hiding an ugly secret from her mother. She secures a flat at the ...Read Review
A Certain Age
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This is a story of a love triangle, secrets, and a decades-old murder mystery. In 1922 New York City, sophisticated Theresa Marshall, of a ...Read Review
Murder at the Loch
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It’s after World War II in London, and crime novelist Donald Langham and his fiancée, Maria Dupré, are looking forward to ...Read Review
The Flame Eater
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‘I’m a fire-starter, an evil fire-starter!’ But who am I exactly? This question is at the heart of this medieval tale of ...Read Review
A Grave Concern
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Medieval Cambridge is in an uproar. It’s not the entertaining sight of University Chancellor Tynkell fighting Satan on top of the tower ...Read Review
These Honored Dead: A Lincoln and Speed Mystery
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A young store owner and an up-and-coming lawyer start a lifelong relationship in Jonathan Putnam’s These Honored Dead. Joshua Speed runs a ...Read Review
Prayers the Devil Answers
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Rules matter, especially in magic, so the Dumb Supper ritual practiced by a Southern mountain community’s maidens to lure their future husbands ...Read Review
