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Murder Off Stage (A Roaring Twenties Mystery, 5)

By Mary Miley - Published 2023

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Jessie Beckett is sure she heard two gunshots when Allen Crenshaw crumpled to the stage. She and her best friend, singer-dancer Adele Astaire, ...Read Review

Murder in the Mist (A Gaslight Mystery, 5)

By Cora Harrison - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

At Christmas in 1859, Charles Dickens’ country home of Gad’s Hill is full to bursting. Dickens, his wife and ten children, plus friends, ...Read Review

Calico

By Lee Goldberg - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Thriller Time-slip Western

Calico is a parallel-narrative, time-slip historical thriller in which we meet Beth McDade, a homicide detective in Barstow, California in 2019. Called to the ...Read Review

The Dead Hand (A Harriet & Matthew Rowsley Victorian Mystery, 5)

By Judith Cutler - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

The death of Lady Croft, earlier in 1861, has Harriet and Matthew Rowsley busier than ever. Harriet, the long-term housekeeper at Thorncroft House, is ...Read Review

Rusted Souls (A Tom Harper Mystery, 11)

By Chris Nickson - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Tom Harper, Chief Constable of Leeds, is about to retire. His time is spent between his Town Hall office with its endless mountains ...Read Review

The Isolated Séance (An Irregular Detective mystery, 1)

By Jeri Westerson - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

London, 1895. Twenty-six-year-old Timothy Badger was a street urchin of twelve when Sherlock Holmes began using him as his spy. The Baker Street Irregulars ...Read Review

The Night of the Wolf (A Brother Chandler Mystery, 3)

By Cassandra Clark - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The times are out of joint. Political and religious turmoil drive families and friends apart. Lies and rumors displace truth. Violence is common. ...Read Review

The Cargo From Neira (A Gabriel Taverner Mystery, 5)

By Alys Clare - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The bustling, cutthroat spice trade forms the enticing backdrop for the fifth volume in Clare’s mystery series featuring country doctor Gabriel Taverner ...Read Review

The Forenoon Bride

By Jeffrey Hantover - Published 2023

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In 1591 England, young Elizabeth Hilliard falls deeply in love with William Bateman, son of an aristocratic Norwich family, unbeknownst to him. She begins ...Read Review