Poisoned Pen

Comes a Time for Burning

By Steven F. Havill - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This second book about Dr. Thomas Parks, who practices medicine in 1892 in the Pacific Northwest, is just as enjoyable as the first, Race ...Read Review

A Spark of Death

By Bernadette Pajer - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Pajer’s debut novel, the first in a proposed series, introduces us to an unlikely sleuth. Benjamin Bradshaw is a professor of electrical ...Read Review

Crying Blood

By Donis Casey - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Set in 1915 on a thriving Oklahoma farm, the Tucker family is embroiled in another mystery when a decade-old skeleton is unearthed on a ...Read Review

The Rock Hole

By Reavis Z. Wortham - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1964, ten-year-old Top arrives in a small Texas town to live with his grandfather, the county constable. Tagging after his grandfather, Top spends ...Read Review

Escape Artist

By Ed Ifkovic - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the second Edna Ferber mystery, being a prequel to Ifkovic’s Lone Star. In Escape Artist, it is 1904 and Edna is ...Read Review

Roman Games

By Bruce Macbain - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Often the suspect in Roman mystery novels is a slave, so the detective must work to prove someone else did it, or the ...Read Review

Valley of Dry Bones

By Priscilla Royal - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1274, in the aftermath of the Barons’ War, a group of travelers arrives at Tyndal Priory, where the quick-witted Eleanor is prioress over ...Read Review

Her Deadly Mischief

By Beverle Graves Myers - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Tito Amato is the primo uomo (first man) in the Venetian state opera house in the mid-1700s. In the middle of one ...Read Review

The Affair of the Thirty-Nine Cufflinks

By James Anderson - Published 2006Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the third and final instalment (the author died in 2007) of the 1930s Golden Age murder mystery series, all set in the 12...Read Review

The Sky Took Him

By Donis Casey - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Donis Casey continues this gentle but enlightened series with a second mystery set in early 20th-century Oklahoma. Alafair Tucker, wise domestic goddess and ...Read Review