Mystery/Crime
Out of the Blue
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Florence, who has recently lost both her husband and her son, finds a strange young man dressed rather oddly sleeping in her summerhouse. ...Read Review
A Long Shadow
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Eighth in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series, this installment finds the Scotland Yard inspector (and veteran of the Great War) in the village ...Read Review
The Sempster’s Tale
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It is the summer of 1450. Dame Frevisse must travel to London to select cloth and patterns for church vestments. But Frevisse is also ...Read Review
Death on the Ladies Mile
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The Ladies Mile, stretching from 8th to 23rd Street in 1880s New York City, housed the shops and restaurants frequented by the city’...Read Review
Oh Danny Boy
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This fifth installment in the Molly Murphy series is set in New York City just at the turn of the 20th century. We ...Read Review
The Masque of the Black Tulip
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Willig’s breezy second offering in her series of Napoleonic-era spy romances features the intrepid and amusing Henrietta Uppington, closely guarding the secret ...Read Review
Face Down Beside St. Anne’s Well
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In 1575 Susanna Appleton, gentlewoman and herbalist, visits the Buxton spa, Derbyshire, one sometimes frequented by Mary, Queen of Scots. Ostensibly there for the ...Read Review
Holmes on the Range
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When a writer mixes genres, such as a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery and a Western, you hold your breath. Can two such disparate styles ...Read Review
Poisoned Palms: The Murder of Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford
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Hattie Lehua is a half-Hawaiian bookkeeper at the Palms Hotel in Waikiki in 1905. She is a bright, reliable young woman who dreams of ...Read Review
Lady of Sin
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In an effort to throw off the lethargy that had plagued her since her husband’s death, Charlotte Mardenford had attended an orgy ...Read Review
