Mystery/Crime
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
Drowning Ruth
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Drowning Ruth is a mystery, a story of self-revelation, a look at the mores of a town and its residents in post-WWI Wisconsin. ...Read Review
The Fig Eater
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The Fig Eater is set in 1910 Vienna. The protagonist is a police officer who very much adheres to modern scientific methods in his ...Read Review
Legacy of the Dead (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries)
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Suspenseful, intriguing, absorbing, compelling: all can be used to describe Legacy of the Dead, the third in the series of Inspector Rutledge novels ...Read Review
The Last Cantata
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
King Frederick II of Prussia summons the elderly J. S. Bach from Leipzig to Potsdam for a meeting. When Bach is ushered into ...Read Review
Graveyard Dust (Benjamin January)
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In 1834 New Orleans, just prior to his death, Isaak Jumon accuses his spouse Celie of poisoning him. At least that is the conclusion ...Read Review
Sold Down the River
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Big, black, and smart, Ben January signs on as private detective for the man who once owned him and his mother. He’s ...Read Review
Murder at Manassas: A Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery
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The author, a longtime Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, puts his passion for American history and his impressive knowledge of Washington’s ...Read Review
O Jerusalem
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In Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first book in this series, a short paragraph covers the Palestine interlude with a promise from the author ...Read Review
