Jinny Webber

Perspective(s) (US) / Perspectives (UK)

By Laurent Binet - By Sam Taylor (trans.) - Published 2025

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

An unusual epistolary novel, Perspective(s) is a murder mystery and historical romp set in late 16th-century Florence. In the preface, a 19th-century ...Read Review

Last Call, Cairo

By Julie Tulba - Published 2024

Genres:

Saga

Last Call, Cairo is a multiperiod novel, opening in 1913 and ending with a coda set in 2002, which evokes the ongoing attraction of Egypt. ...Read Review

Two Weddings and a Murder (A Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery)

By Alyssa Maxwell - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

On a June day at Foxwood Hall in the English countryside in 1922, Lady Phoebe Renshaw prepares to marry Lord Owen Seabright. Waiting in ...Read Review

Another Man in the Street

By Caryl Phillips - Published 2025

Genres:

EpicLiterary

More epic than historical novel, Another Man in the Street opens with Victor Johnson coming from the island of St. Kitts to London ...Read Review

The Queens of Crime

By Marie Benedict - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Dorothy Sayers is the narrator of this clever novel. Her fellow Queens include Agatha Christie; Baroness Emma Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel; ...Read Review

Precipice

By Robert Harris - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

From its opening scene of a frivolous death during a late-night pleasure boat excursion of reckless young aristocrats on the Thames before WWI ...Read Review

Love’s Knife (Trobairitz Sleuth, 1)

By Tracey Warr - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Set in Tolosa, Occitania, in 1093, Love’s Knife features three girls on the cusp of womanhood: Lady Philippa, who should inherit Tolosa, as ...Read Review

A Golden Life

By Ginny Kubitz Moyer - Published 2024

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Twenty-five-year-old Frances Healey arrives in Hollywood in 1938, newly hired as secretary to Lawrence Merrill, a producer at VistaGlen Studios. The studio is preparing ...Read Review

The Trade Off

By Samantha Greene Woodruff - Published 2024

Genres:

A novel opening with the stock market crash of 1929 and first chapter set in 1926 has suspense built in. Chapters begin with the date ...Read Review

For the Love of My Enemy

By M.E. Blaustone - Published 2024

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This story of a young woman in Windsor, California who falls in love with a German POW in a nearby detention camp during ...Read Review