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Poisoned Pen

Out of the Black Land

By Kerry Greenwood - Published 2013

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Kerry Greenwood is known for Jazz Age mysteries, but Out of the Black Land is a different animal. Eighteenth dynasty Egypt is portrayed ...Read Review

Holy Smoke

By Frederick Ramsay - Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime

Ramsay’s mystery series set in Jerusalem in the 1st century CE combines skilled plotting with a lighthearted irreverence and sense of humor—...Read Review

Face of the Enemy

By Beverle Graves Myers - By Joanne Dobson - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

War is about to be declared against Germany and Japan. Americans are traumatized by Japan’s military attack on Pearl Harbor. Suspicion and ...Read Review

Fatal Induction

By Bernadette Pajer - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

I don’t mind starting a series late in the game. If I like the book, that means I’ve got earlier books ...Read Review

Roman Games

By Bruce Macbain - Published 2010 Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

Rome, 96 AD. The city’s labyrinthine politics have brought the Emperor Domitian to the final stages of paranoia, manifest in his employment of ...Read Review

Danger in the Wind

By Jane Finnis - Published 2011

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Mystery/Crime

This fourth Aurelia Marcella mystery set in Roman Britain opens with a birthday invitation sent to the innkeeper sleuth from her cousin with ...Read Review

The Eighth Veil

By Frederick Ramsay - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

A girl is drowned and her throat cut in the baths of Herod’s palace in 28 CE. Her killer fails to retrieve her ...Read Review

Nine for the Devil

By Eric Mayer - By Mary Reed - Published 2011

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Mystery/Crime

This is the ninth and latest entry in the John the Eunuch series, set in the time of Justinian, the Eastern Roman emperor ...Read Review

A Killing Season

By Priscilla Royal - Published 2011

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal of the Order of Fontevraud and her companion arrive at a castle on the English coast to help a ...Read Review

Mercury’s Rise

By Ann Parker - Published 2011

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Mystery/Crime Western

In book four of the Silver Rush series, Inez Stannert travels through the Rocky Mountains to Manitou, Colorado, eager to reunite with her ...Read Review