Mystery/Crime

Lucrezia Borgia and the Mother of Poisons

By Roberta Gellis - Published 2003

Genres:

Biographical FictionMystery/Crime

In this, the first in a new series by the famed romance writer turned historical mystery writer, Lucrezia Borgia is, of all things, ...Read Review

The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

By Ted Riccardi - Published 2003

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeShort Stories

This novel covers the great gap in the Holmes canon, between the time Holmes was supposedly killed at Reichenbach Falls with his archenemy ...Read Review

Maisie Dobbs

By Jacqueline Winspear - Published 2003

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Circumstances force Maisie Dobbs, the daughter of a widowed costermonger, into service at the age of thirteen. She is fortunate that her employer, ...Read Review

The Emperor’s Assassin

By T.F. Banks - Published 2003

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In July 1815, ex-emperor Napoleon Bonaparte waits on a ship in Plymouth harbor while Whitehall debates his fate: exile, execution, or a civil trial? ...Read Review

Still Life With Murder

By P.B. Ryan - Published 2003

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Nell Sweeney becomes governess to a Boston Brahmin family early in this mystery, which is set several years after the end of the ...Read Review

Clea’s Moon

By Edward Wright - Published 2003

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This retro-mystery set in late-1940s Los Angeles has a lot of the right ingredients going for it – starting with its former B-western ...Read Review

Jane and the Ghosts of Netley

By Stephanie Barron - Published 2003

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Seventh in Barron’s series of historical suspense novels featuring Jane Austen as an amateur sleuth, this is a well-crafted melding of wit, ...Read Review

Murder in the Pleasure Gardens

By Rosemary Stevens - Published 2003

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

An engaging premise – Regency dandy Beau Brummell as amateur sleuth – appears slightly tarnished and tired in this latest installment of Stevens’ mystery series. ...Read Review

The Painter

By Will Davenport - Published 2003

Genres:

Alternate HistoryBiographical FictionMystery/Crime

This novel intertwines 17th century and present day plots. The 17th century story proposes a possible explanation for how Rembrandt might have come ...Read Review

The Second Glass of Absinthe

By Michelle Black - Published 2003

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeWestern

The booming mining town of Leadville, Colorado, in 1880 is the setting for Black’s latest mystery of the Victorian west, yet for a ...Read Review