Jazz Age
A Friendly Game of Murder: An Algonquin Round Table Mystery
Wisecracking Dorothy Parker is at it again, solving a mystery with her famous round table friends during the Roaring Twenties.…
Unnatural Habits
The always-indomitable and independently wealthy sleuth Phryne Fisher and her cast of sidekicks and supporters is back in this romp…
The Fire Horse Girl
Jade Moon is not the average Chinese immigrant, and this is not a stereotypical story of immigrants rising to success…
Hammett Unwritten
The one word that comes to mind when reading Owen Fitzstephen’s Hammett Unwritten (as discovered and edited by Gordon McAlpine)…
Sirens
Josephine Winter is sent to New York City to stay with her aunt and uncle, but she’d rather be home…
The Jump Artist
At times this is not the easiest book to read, nor is it the most enjoyable, nor the most exciting.…
All for a Song
Dorothy Lynn Dunbar is comfortable. She has her church, her family, and her devoted fiancé — the local pastor. She…
The Last of the Bird People
This short but intriguing novel, written by a cultural historian, blurs the lines of genre to create a thought-provoking speculative…
All the Beauty Of the Sun
A superbly written book, this is a poignant and very readable novel. The rich, colourful and complex characters bring this…
The Boy I Love
The protagonist of this novel set in the aftermath of WW1, Paul Harris, has returned from the war, but his…
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