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Murder in a Cornish Alehouse
In June of 1584, Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey learns of the death of her stepfather, Sir Walter Pendennis, and returns to…
Dancing with Death
Crackling cauliflowers and suffering stockfish! The heroine of Myers’ diverting new country house mystery is a feisty young woman known…
Renting Silence
Miley’s third Roaring ´20s mystery delivers more zippy entertainment that taps into the spirit of the time when Hollywood’s silent…
Good Time Coming: A Novel of the American Civil War
Editors' choice
Already addicted to Harris’s St. Cyr Regency mysteries, I couldn’t help but jump on the opportunity to review her new…
A Rustle of Silk: A Gabriel Taverner Mystery
Queen Elizabeth has just died, and Gabriel Taverner, former naval surgeon, hangs out his shingle on land in rural Devon.…
An Unjust Judge
This is the fourteenth Burren mystery, set in western Ireland during the reign of Henry VIII. It features as sleuth…
A Pilgrimage to Murder
England, summer 1381. The Peasants’ Revolt has been put down, and at every crossroads are gibbets whereon hang the bodies…
Mr Campion’s Fault
In 1969, Perdita and her husband Rupert, both Londoners, arrive in the Yorkshire coal mining village of Denby Ash. Perdita,…
Against the Light: An Irish Nationalist Mystery set in Edwardian London
In 1912, with the disaster of the Titanic headlining the newspapers, young Dr. Alice Latimer bicycles across London from her…
Rebellion’s Message
The seedy underworld of London in 1554 is explored through the eyes of Jack Blackjack, who wakes up behind a…
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