Minotaur
Pandora’s Boy
This is another story in the Falco series set in Rome in the first century AD. It concerns Falco’s daughter,…
A Death of No Importance
Set amidst the extravagance of 1910 New York City, where moneyed families lived in fear of scandal, this is a…
The Throne of Caesar
Here is the long-awaited next installment of Saylor’s Roman mystery series, featuring Gordianus the Finder, that deals with Julius Caesar’s…
The Corpse at the Crystal Palace
Set in London during 1928, this is the latest of more than twenty Daisy Dalrymple mysteries. Daisy, wife of Detective…
The Woman in the Water
Editors' choice
In this engrossing prequel to the Charles Lenox mysteries, set in 1850, Finch’s amiable aristocratic hero is not yet the…
City of Sharks
Miranda Corbie works as a private investigator in San Francisco in the months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor in…
The Mitford Murders
England, 1920. Louisa Cannon, 19, must leave London to escape her abusive uncle. When the Mitfords, a wealthy Oxfordshire family,…
Old Scores
Old Scores is ninth in Thomas’s excellent Victorian-era series featuring enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn. The…
Death of an Unsung Hero
This newest addition to the Lady Montfort mystery series is set in 1916 during the darkest days of WWI. The…
Death in the Stars
This ninth Kate Shackleton mystery is set in Leeds, England in 1927. Private investigator Kate is aided by her assistant,…
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