Minotaur
The Shape of Sand
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In 1910, Harriet Jardine and her siblings left their country manor after their mother’s disappearance and their father’s suicide. From an idyllic ...Read Review
Days of Rage
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This latest entry in the Smokey Dalton series concerns the racial politics of Chicago in 1969. In the background of the novel, we become ...Read Review
The Empress of India
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On and off over a period of nearly thirty years, Kurland has been chronicling the adventures of Sherlock Holmes’s most notorious nemesis, ...Read Review
A Gladiator Dies Only Once
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This collection featuring Gordianus the Finder is satisfying from beginning to end. Gordianus, who is “useful at digging up dirt,” has a reputation ...Read Review
The Malevolent Comedy
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Fans of the theatre are bound to enjoy this series centered on a troupe in Elizabethan England. The plot, revolving around nasty events ...Read Review
The Assassin’s Touch
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In the page-turning climax of her tenth Inspector Sano mystery, Rowland locks us in a remote villa with Sano and the Assassin. It ...Read Review
The Russian Hill Murders
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The second volume of Shirley Tallman’s series finds Sarah Woolson, an attorney in 1880s San Francisco, at a charity dinner for the ...Read Review
Cavalcade
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Cleverly using Pinkerton agents to investigate crimes in various locales, Satterthwait sets this third installment of the Phil Beaumont and Jane Turner mystery ...Read Review
The Tribune’s Curse: SPQR VII
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It is 80 B.C., and Decius Cecilius Metullus the Younger is back again, returned from the war in Gaul to his native Rome, ...Read Review
Rashomon Gate
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Rashomon Gate is a charmingly illustrated mystery of 11th century Japan. The hero, Akitada Sugawara, is an amateur detective who has been asked ...Read Review