Jazz Age
A Talent for Murder
London’s celebrated mystery writer, Agatha Christie, finds herself in the middle of a psychological thriller reminiscent of her own novels.…
A Foolish Virgin
In this novel set mostly in Antwerp in the early 1920s, but also in The Hague and Berlin, Gittel is…
Murder in Disguise
The freshness of Jessie Beckett’s narrative voice remains undimmed even after four books. In her latest excursion into amateur detection,…
The Massacre of Mankind
This is a sequel to H.G. Wells’ iconic story of the Martian invasion of England. It is 1920, and the…
All the Best People
Editors' choice
In Vermont in the late 1920s, Solange was a young woman who fell in love, married, and had a baby.…
A Talent for Murder
In December 1926, Agatha Christie went missing for ten days. The police organised searches for her, and press speculation reached frenzied heights.…
Cocoa Beach
Williams returns to the characters and Jazz Age period she has so entertainingly explored in A Certain Age and The…
Mothering Sunday
Despite the title, Mothering Sunday is lacking in mothers. It is the story of what a young housemaid and orphan,…
Beyond Absolution
In the politically roiled Irish city of Cork in 1923, Reverend Mother Aquinas’s latest investigation is tragically personal. An old…
Kings of America
Nicky Mariani and his sister are from Corsica, and both are ambitious, full of dreams and determined to become the…
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