Mystery/Crime
Wine of Violence
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At 20 years old, Eleanor of Wynethorpe is young to be appointed Prioress of Tyndal, Order of Fontevraud, leader of both the monastery’s ...Read Review
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Murder
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In the New Jersey river port of New Brunswick, the town inhabitants had a front row seat of the war action in early 1777. ...Read Review
The Empire of Shadows
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It is August, 1889. In his second historical novel after Suspension, Crabbe revisits the lives of Police Captain Tom Braddock and his son, Mike. ...Read Review
Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell
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With this book, Arthur Conan Doyle joins the ranks of authors as detectives, but unlike Jane Austen et al., Conan Doyle seems more ...Read Review
Widow in Scarlet
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There are, in fact, two widows in scarlet appearing in this longish romantic adventure, set in England’s Regency era. The first is ...Read Review
Murder on the Caronia
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A Cunard line setting is the hook for this pleasant mystery series by Conrad Allen. Murder on the Caronia is the fourth in ...Read Review
The Steadfast
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Schweitzer’s first novel attempts to place the reader in Edwardian England, with side trips to Dutch South Africa, in a wide-ranging tale ...Read Review
Femme Fatale
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This is the seventh book in Douglas’s series featuring Irene Adler, the adventurous diva/detective who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes. While recovering ...Read Review
Pretty Boy
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
This fictionalized account of Charles Arthur Floyd is a romanticized look at one of the Depression era’s most wily gangsters. Floyd was ...Read Review
Hell at the Breech
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Hell at the Breech depicts rural gang warfare in 1890s Alabama. A posse of country sharecroppers is bent on vengeance after one of ...Read Review
