Thomas & Mercer
A Killing on the Hill
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Nineteen-year-old William Shumacher (“Shoe”) works as an intern for Seattle’s only afternoon paper. On an early morning in 1933, Shoe gets tipped off ...Read Review
Broadway Butterfly
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Dot King, a flapper, kept woman, and gal around town, is found murdered in her bed in midtown Manhattan on March 14, 1923, by her ...Read Review
On Good Authority
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This unsettling Victorian gothic romance has a content warning, for which I’m glad. On Good Authority is a first-person accounting from Marian ...Read Review
Cleopatra’s Dagger
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Cleopatra’s Dagger does not take place in ancient Egypt, although Egyptian artifacts, including a mummy, do come into play. Rather, the setting ...Read Review
The Thin Place
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Scotland, present day. Reporter Ava is working on a story about Overtoun Bridge, outside Overtoun House in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Over the years, ...Read Review
The Fatal Flying Affair (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery)
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In the cozy mystery category, the Lady Hardcastle series is one of the best. Erudite, funny, and so very British, the series follows ...Read Review
Murder in Venice
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Venice, 1752. When the body of an impoverished nobleman is discovered, Avogadore Marco Pisani is asked to investigate. He’s helped by his friend ...Read Review
Death Beside the Seaside (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery)
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Sixth in Kinsey’s Lady Hardcastle and Florence Armstrong series, Death Beside the Seaside finds the redoubtable duo in the summer of 1910, looking ...Read Review
The Penmaker’s Wife
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In 1880 London, Angelica, an attractive Frenchwoman, is unhappy in her marriage to an Englishman. Wishing for a better life for her and her ...Read Review
Murder in Park Lane (The Detective Lavender Mysteries)
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In fashionable Mayfair of 1812, a man is found murdered, apparently stabbed to death in his locked room. How was he murdered, when no ...Read Review
