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The Goddess of Shipwrecked Sailors: A Lizzie Crane Mystery
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In this third installment of the author’s Lizzie Crane series, the heroine and her band are hired to play for a wealthy ...Read Review
In the Hands of Women: A Gilded City Series
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To write this novel, Rubin did extensive research about the plight women faced at the beginning of the 20th century in terms of ...Read Review
The Courtesan’s Secret: A Venice Beauties Mystery
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Set in 17th-century Venice, this novel focuses on the beautiful courtesan Belladonna, born a converso named Raquel Mendoza. Although her wealth and status ...Read Review
The Deadliest Deceptions (A Miriam Bat Isaac Mystery)
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The Deadliest Deceptions is a collection of nine short stories in Trop’s Miriam bat Isaac mystery series set in Roman Alexandria, during ...Read Review
The Solace of Stars: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery
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This second in a new series, inspired by the author’s work at an outdoor ethnic museum in Wisconsin, introduces Hanneke Bauer, a ...Read Review
Immortalised to Death: The Dunston Burnett Trilogy
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Jolly good! A Dickensian mystery about Dickens—or, more precisely, about his death. Charles Dickens died abruptly in 1870 while he was writing his ...Read Review
Path of Peril
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In January 1947, Maurice Cooper Latta reveals information he witnessed and kept secret as the president’s secretary for 41 years: threats to the life ...Read Review
The Truth We Hide: A Homefront Mystery
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In Buffalo in 1943, almost-newly-minted private detective Betty Ahern is busy studying the correspondence course to obtain her license when she is introduced to ...Read Review
Poe Street
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Poe Street is a quirky little road, barely a block long, with a sharp dogleg that makes it hard to see if someone ...Read Review
No Comfort for the Undertaker (A Carrie Lisbon Mystery)
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A combination of fine historical detail, an appealing protagonist, and perceptive writing make Keefer’s turn-of-the-century debut mystery a real page-turner. Carrie Lisbon, ...Read Review
