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A Single Spy
It is 1936 in Soviet Azerbaijan when we meet Alexsi, a 16-year-old orphan who has managed to survive on his…
The Reek of Red Herrings
1930: Dandy Gilver and her sidekick, Alec Osborne, take on a daunting task. Several barrels of a prestigious herring processor’s…
A Death in the Dales: A Kate Shackleton Mystery
This, the seventh in Brody’s Kate Shackleton series, offers classic, English-countryside, cozy-mystery enjoyment. Kate, WWI widow and enquiry agent, aims…
A Death By Any Other Name
Building on the success of the two previous installments of the Lady Montfort mystery series, Arlen reintroduces us to the…
The Inheritance
This, the tenth installment of the Charles Lenox series, finds the Victorian detective trying to solve the mystery of Gerald…
Buried in the Country
Fourth in her Cornish mystery series, Buried in the Country takes place in the loosely delineated 1960s-70s—the modern world, but…
The English Agent
Editors' choice
I’ve often found that when I inadvertently pick up a book that is later in a series, I have a…
A Most Novel Revenge
In this historical mystery set in 1933, Amory Ames, an extremely beautiful young woman, is invited along with her wealthy…
Miss Dimple and the Slightly Bewildered Angel
Set in the American South in 1944, this mystery conveys strongly the pressures of war on those left behind. Not…
Desolation Flats
The third book in Andrew Hunt’s Art Oveson mystery series takes place in Utah as war looms in the 1930s.…
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