Mystery/Crime
Pharos: A Ghost Story
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On Jacob’s Rock, a remote lighthouse on the coast of Scotland, a young woman is washed up on shore in the early 19...Read Review
Cry of the Phoenix
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Shortly after the end of World War II, on a small island off the coast of Wales, a reclusive man claiming to be ...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
The Polished Hoe
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Miss Mary-Mathilda has committed a crime. As a responsible citizen of Flagstaff Village on the island of Bimshire (local slang for Barbados), she ...Read Review
Undertow
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This engaging, complex mystery takes place in Newfoundland in 1947, before it joined Canada as a province. The book’s prologue is a newspaper ...Read Review
