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Murder at Whitehall

By Amanda Carmack - Published 2015

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Yuletide in 1559 gives Kate Hayward a chance to compose and play her music for Queen Elizabeth’s Twelve Days of Christmas celebration. In ...Read Review

No Comfort for the Lost: A Mystery of Old San Francisco

By Nancy Herriman - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

San Francisco, 1867: English Nurse Celia Davies, abandoned by her roving husband, tends to poor women at her clinic in post-Civil War San Francisco. ...Read Review

Murder in the Queen’s Garden

By Amanda Carmack - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

Murder in the Queen’s Garden is the third book in the Elizabethan Mystery Series by Amanda Carmack. It is 1559, and Elizabeth has ...Read Review

Murder at Westminster Abbey (Elizabethan Mysteries)

By Amanda Carmack - Published 2014 Published 2014-04-01

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Mystery/Crime

Red-headed women are being murdered – two in brothels and one at the court of Elizabeth I. The possibility that this could be a ...Read Review

Why Kings Confess (Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries (Hardcover))

By C.S. Harris - Published 2014 Published 2014-03-04

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Mystery/Crime

In the latest mystery featuring Sebastian St. Cyr, aristocratic sleuth in Regency England, a friend of Sebastian’s finds the mutilated body of ...Read Review

Murder at Hatfield House

By Amanda Carmack - Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime

Kate Haywood, a young musician in the employ of Princess Elizabeth, becomes embroiled in murder when Lord Braceton, Queen Mary’s henchman, descends ...Read Review

A Friendly Game of Murder: An Algonquin Round Table Mystery

By J. J. Murphy - Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime

Wisecracking Dorothy Parker is at it again, solving a mystery with her famous round table friends during the Roaring Twenties. This time, everyone ...Read Review

When Maidens Mourn: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery

By C.S. Harris - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

When Maidens Mourn is the seventh novel in the series by C.S. Harris featuring Sebastian St. Cyr, an aristocratic sleuth in Regency ...Read Review

Sweet Revenge: A Lady Hadley Regency Mystery

By Andrea Penrose - Published 2011

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Mystery/Crime

In 1812, Lady Arianna Hadley, the daughter of a disgraced earl, returns to England from exile in the West Indies to take revenge on ...Read Review

Murder Your Darlings

By J. J. Murphy - Published 2011

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Mystery/Crime

Esteemed author Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch counseled, regarding beautifully written phrases, to expunge them: “murder your darlings.” Someone has taken him literally at the ...Read Review

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