Mystery/Crime

Holmes on the Range

By Steve Hockensmith - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeWestern

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

By Dorothea N. Buckingham - Published 2005

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Madeline Hunter - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

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

The Bonaparte Plot

By Hugh McLeave - Published 2005

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1803 it seems nothing can stop Napoleon Bonaparte from invading and conquering England. So, Prime Minister William Pitt creates a plan to thwart ...Read Review

The Truth About Sascha Knisch

By Aris Fioretos - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Set in the oppressively hot summer of 1928 Berlin, this is a fascinating, though often obscure novel. The eponymous Sascha is an occasional cross-dresser ...Read Review

The Parliament House

By Edward Marston - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Christopher Redmayne is feeling pleased with himself; his latest architectural project is finished and its merchant owner, Francis Polegate, is thrilled with it. ...Read Review

The Egyptian Coffin

By Jane Jakeman - Published 2005

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The Egyptian Coffin is the second book in Jane Jakeman’s mystery series set in the 1830s, featuring the enigmatic, reclusive Lord Ambrose ...Read Review

Dark Assassin

By Anne Perry - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

While on boat patrol with the Thames River Police, Inspector William Monk watches helplessly as Mary Havilland falls to her death off Waterloo ...Read Review

City of Shadows

By Ariana Franklin - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Ariana Franklin has written an intriguing, fast-paced thriller based on the life of Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be Anastasia, daughter ...Read Review

Fool’s Gold

By Jane Jakeman - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The third title in Jane Jakeman’s Lord Ambrose mysteries finds Ambrose Malfine, Lord of the Malfine estate in the West Country of ...Read Review