Crooked Lane Books

A Botanist’s Guide to Rituals and Revenge: A Saffron Everleigh Mystery

By Beth Kanell - By Kate Khavari - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1924 it’s still hard for a woman to carve a career in the sciences, and for Saffron Everleigh, in her third appearance ...Read Review

The Queen Who Came in from the Cold: Her Majesty The Queen Investigates

By SJ Bennett - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In the spring of 1961, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, and a small number of staff and guests travel by train to Lancashire. ...Read Review

A Lethal Engagement

By April J. Skelly - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1890. American Cora Beaumont has inherited her father’s dirigible, or airship, the Lady Air, with one caveat: She must be engaged.  She indeed ...Read Review

The Four Queens of Crime

By Rosanne Limoncelli - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1938 London.  Agatha Christie isn’t fond of public appearances, but she has agreed to attend a ball at Hursley House, the estate of ...Read Review

The Socialite’s Guide to Sleuthing and Secrets (A Pinnacle Hotel Mystery)

By S. K. Golden - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

It’s 1958, and Evelyn Murphy, privileged daughter of a hotel chain magnate, lives in luxury in a two-bedroom suite in New York’s ...Read Review

A Poisonous Silence (A Deadly Twenties Mystery)

By Jenny Adams - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Philadelphia, 1921. Socialites do not have jobs, but Edie Shippen is not just a city councilman’s daughter. After saving herself and her friends ...Read Review

Misery Hates Company

By Elizabeth Hobbs - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In Boston in 1894, feisty twenty-one-year-old Marigold Manners’ parents have just died from influenza. She learns that due to her father’s debts, she ...Read Review

My Sister’s Shadow

By January Gilchrist - Published 2025

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Adelaide Windlass wants nothing more in life than to live quietly at her family estate, Harewood Hall in Gloucester, England. But her father ...Read Review

The Vampire of Kings Street

By Asha Greyling - Published 2024

Genres:

Historical FantasyMystery/Crime

Remarkable storytelling at its best, The Vampire of Kings Street is one of the finest mysteries I’ve ever encountered. Greyling uses a ...Read Review

Murder in the Ranks

By Kristi Jones - Published 2024

Genres:

MilitaryMystery/Crime

Twenty-nine-year-old Dottie has joined the new Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. Its members perform back-office work for America’s military in North Africa. ...Read Review