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A Maiden Weeping
In this ninth installment of Westerson’s Crispin Guest medieval noir series, we find Crispin himself playing a supporting role as…
Drinking Gourd: A Benjamin January Historical Mystery
In Louisiana in 1839, free black man Benjamin January, who had been trained as a surgeon in France, is relegated…
The Women of the Souk: A Mamur Zapt Mystery Set in Pre-World War I Egypt
In 1913, on a hot, sand-stormy day in Cairo, Captain Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt (Head of the Secret Police)…
Foreign Bodies
Foreign Bodies is the 18th in the Marcus Corvinus series. In AD 42, the emperor Claudius sends Corvinus off to…
Late Harvest
Exmoor, England, early 19th century. Peggy Shawe inherits the family farm when her father dies, although marriage means that her…
The Circle
In his second post-Civil War mystery (after The Blue and the Grey, HNR May 2015), Trow, a Welsh-born writer, again…
Death at the Boston Tea Party: A John Rawlings Mystery
When an actress, traveling under an aristocratic alias, falls to her death from the riggings of a ship in the…
Murder at the Loch
It’s after World War II in London, and crime novelist Donald Langham and his fiancée, Maria Dupré, are looking forward…
The Great Revolt: A Brother Athelstan Medieval Mystery
This is the tenth Brother Athelstan mystery in the series, and Doherty delivers crime and politics in equal measure. In…
Treason in the Secret City
Spies have managed to infiltrate Libby Clark’s workplace, not surprisingly given its significance in the war effort. She’s an analytical…
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