Susan McDuffie
The Unquiet Grave
Lakin, West Virginia, 1930. Attorney James P. D. Gardner, confined to an asylum after an unsuccessful suicide attempt, tries the…
Sherlock Holmes and the Nine Dragon Sigil
The game’s afoot and we are off, in this homage to the Great Detective. In 1906 Holmes is keeping bees…
An Uncommon Courtship
1796: Lord Trent Hawthorne and Lady Adelaide Bell are thrown together by fate, and the honorable Trent feels he must…
The Queen’s Christmas Summons
Lady Alys Drury, raised in isolation on the Irish coast, has grown up hearing stories of Queen Elizabeth’s court in…
The Reek of Red Herrings
1930: Dandy Gilver and her sidekick, Alec Osborne, take on a daunting task. Several barrels of a prestigious herring processor’s…
Murder Between the Lines: A Kitty Weeks Mystery
This second volume in the Kitty Weeks mystery series sees part-time reporter Kitty interviewing students at an exclusive girl’s boarding…
The House at Bishopsgate
Editors' choice
1611: Merchant Paul Pindar and his wife, Celia, return to London after years spent living abroad in Aleppo and Constantinople.…
Leopard at the Door
In 1952, 18-year-old Rachel returns to sunlit Kenya after six years of dreary schooling in England. Rachel is eager to…
Hand of Glory
Captain Giles Hardy narrowly escapes death in Passchendaele and eventually returns home to Stafford, England, haunted by what he witnessed…
The Lady of the Lakes: The True Love Story of Sir Walter Scott
Edinburgh, 1790s: Walter Scott, a young man with a romantic temperament, falls deeply in love with a young girl, Mina,…
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