Mystery/Crime
Rough Cider (Soho Crime)
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The narrator breaks the fourth wall, addressing the audience: “In 1964, you meet me at the self-assured age of 29.…” Then Dr. Theo Sinclair meets ...Read Review
Promise of Light: A Novel
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It’s the unusual death of Ben Sheridan’s father that stalks him throughout this novel. Sheridan’s search takes him from his ...Read Review
Murder Me Now
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This is Meyers’ second mystery featuring Olivia Brown, a Greenwich Village poet in Prohibition 1920s. A nanny is murdered during a country house ...Read Review
A Citizen of the Country
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Fantasize about reading a novel in Paris, Boston, but mostly in and around the city of Arras, in northern France, a region commonly ...Read Review
Dead Above Ground
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Late 1940s New Orleans is the most prominent feature of Dead Above Ground. Author Jervey Tervalon fills his novel with New Orleans’ mystery, ...Read Review
Alice’s Tulips
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“A yellow tulip is like sunshine,” Alice tells her mother-in-law. “Yellow is for joy and gladness and friendship.” Mother Bullock has come to ...Read Review
Bottoms
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This novel of Depression-era East Texas is reminiscent of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Rich in description and period detail, it ...Read Review
Texas Lily
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Spanning the years 1878 to the late 1890s, this saga of the American Southwest follows the life of Lily Cassidy Moss, who at age 15, ...Read Review
The Advocate
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This is a military mystery set in WWII England: the mystery concerns the shooting down of an American Airforce fighter by two other ...Read Review
South of Eden
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Billed as an “ecological thriller”, this novel lives up (or perhaps down!) to its description. Back in 1905, conservation of the grasslands was a ...Read Review
