Poisoned Pen
The Bull Slayer
Richly described settings are one of the strengths of this mystery, beginning with a decorated cave shrine to Mithras and…
Make Believe: An Edna Ferber Mystery
It’s 1950s Hollywood, and author Edna Ferber’s famous novel Show Boat is the current movie buzz. She leaves her beloved…
Shadows in the Night
This is the first in Jane Finnis’ Aurelia Marcella Mysteries, so we are introduced to the eponymous heroine who is…
The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd
On October 18, 1931, Winnie Ruth Judd, a 26-year old medical secretary, boarded a train from Phoenix to Los Angeles…
Out of the Black Land
Kerry Greenwood is known for Jazz Age mysteries, but Out of the Black Land is a different animal. Eighteenth dynasty…
The Sanctity of Hate
In the summer of 1276, the last Jews of England are scurrying to cities of refuge to comply with King…
The Wrong Hill to Die On
The latest in the Alafair Tucker mystery series finds the 1916 Oklahoma mother of ten a fish out of water…
Holy Smoke
Ramsay’s mystery series set in Jerusalem in the 1st century CE combines skilled plotting with a lighthearted irreverence and sense…
Unnatural Habits
The always-indomitable and independently wealthy sleuth Phryne Fisher and her cast of sidekicks and supporters is back in this romp…
Roman Games
Rome, 96 AD. The city’s labyrinthine politics have brought the Emperor Domitian to the final stages of paranoia, manifest in…
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