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Death and the Conjuror: A Locked-Room Mystery

By Tom Mead - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In what promises to be the first in a series of novels featuring the magician-turned-detective’s assistant, Joseph Spector, Tom Mead offers up ...Read Review

She Lover of Death: A Fandorin Mystery

By Boris Akunin - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

Wishing to cast off her humble rural Siberian upbringing, Masha Mironova transforms herself into the daring Columbine, a young woman searching for love ...Read Review

The Coronation: A Fandorin Mystery

By Boris Akunin - Published 2010Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1896: The Romanov imperial family and heads of state from around the world gather in Moscow for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II. Among ...Read Review

Paris in the Dark (Christopher Marlowe Cobb)

By Robert Olen Butler - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Autumn 1915. As the novel opens, even though Americans are not yet fighting in the European trenches, they are nevertheless crossing the Atlantic as ...Read Review

The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

By Lyndsay Faye - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Sherlock Holmes, that fascinating detective born from Conan Doyle’s pen in the late Victorian era, still captivates readers and viewers today. Currently, ...Read Review

Moon Over Tangier

By Janice Law - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

After a bloody fight and a six-week separation, Francis’s lover, the handsome but troubled David, leaves for Morocco, and Francis can’t ...Read Review

The Prisoner of the Riviera

By Janice Law - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The second outing for 20th-century painter Francis Bacon as an accidental sleuth opens with a bang: “The war was over: Herr Hitler was ...Read Review

The Hunting Ground

By J. Robert Janes - Published 2013

Genres:

Thriller

Best known for his St-Cyr and Kohler mysteries, Janes is on familiar Nazi-occupied French ground in this wartime thriller told by Lily de ...Read Review

Tapestry

By J. Robert Janes - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler make up the intriguing duo of detectives fighting everyday crime in Paris during the German occupation. Brutal assaults ...Read Review

Ruin Value: A Mystery of the Third Reich

By J. Sydney Jones - Published 2013

Genres:

Thriller

Post-World War II Germany is a fascinating place. Much has been written on the postwar victors, especially England (although postwar deprivations made them ...Read Review