Severn House
The Killing Site
The Killing Site is the ninth in Peacock’s Victorian-era Liberty Lane series. In 1847, Liberty is happily married to Robert…
Mind of a Killer
In London in 1882, Alec Lonsdale, a reporter for the Pall Mall Gazette, stumbles upon a house fire and investigates…
The Magic Chair Murder
Another historical mystery series is born! Award-winning crime author Diane Janes has delivered the first book in a new historical…
Murder in July
Editors' choice
Barbara Hambly’s fourteenth Benjamin January mystery might be her best yet. Set in 1830s New Orleans and Paris, the story…
The Rufus Spy: A Medieval Mystical Mystery
This is the eighth book in Alys Clare’s Aelf Fen series, set in East Anglia in the reign of King…
Season of Blood
The medieval mystery subgenre is flooded with similar stories, characters that often blend into one another, and settings that are…
The Price of Freedom
In AD 193 in Glevum (present-day Gloucester) in Britannia, Libertus, a mosaicist, is dining with Septimus, the senior magistrate at…
The Island: A Grand and Batchelor Victorian Mystery
The post-Civil War adventures continue for London-based enquiry agents Matthew Grand and James Batchelor. It’s 1873, and Matthew’s sister Martha…
Bucket’s List
It’s 1853 in London, and the true-life inspiration behind Charles Dickens’s Inspector Bucket, Charley Field, has just retired from the…
Highland Sisters
Set in the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh as the Edwardian era winds down, Douglas’s concise yet engaging romantic novel follows…
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