Mystery/Crime
A Great and Terrible Beauty
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AdventureHistorical FantasyMystery/Crime
It’s 1895, and 16-year old Gemma Doyle is faced with the death of her mother and a move from India to an English ...Read Review
The Paid Companion
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Elenora Lodge is in need of an immediate position. As a paid companion, she is having trouble finding an employer who is not ...Read Review
Betrayal at Cross Creek
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
(1) Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro has come to North Carolina Colony from Scotland with her grandparents, Angus and Morag MacKinnon. Raised on tales of the ...Read Review
The Mask of Red Death
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In many ways, The Mask of Red Death is a typical addition to the psychotic serial killer genre. An insane murderer is on ...Read Review
An Unpardonable Crime
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Taylor, the author of over twenty novels, knows how to tell a story. This is a can’t-put-down mystery, set in England in 1819. ...Read Review
The Garden of Martyrs
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
Though based on true events, not much happens in Michael White’s novel, a vibrant and deeply-felt tale of miscarried justice and anti-Irish ...Read Review
Hasty Death
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Hasty Death is the second in Chesney’s new Edwardian mystery series featuring Lady Rose Summer and Captain Harry Cathcart. Headstrong Lady Rose, ...Read Review
In the Name of Ishmael
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Two police detectives, one in 1962 and another in 2001, discover that “everything evolves around the dark and secret name of Ishmael.” One is distracted ...Read Review
The Hunter’s Tale
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Thirteenth in Margaret Frazer’s Dame Frevisse series, The Hunter’s Tale, set in 1448, is the best yet. As expected, the mystery is ...Read Review
Murder in Montparnasse
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While on leave in Paris in 1918, seven Australian soldiers become unwitting witnesses to a crime. A decade later, in Melbourne, these seven soldiers ...Read Review
