Tess Heckel
Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art
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Begun as a history of the color blue, this book evolves into a detective romp through Montmartre, Paris, historical haunt of artists. After ...Read Review
The House at Sea’s End
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The ever-encroaching sea on the coast of Norfolk, England uncovers six skeletons, bound, shot, and hidden in a deep cove. Discovered by a ...Read Review
Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder
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Dumfermline, Scotland, between the World Wars, boasted two competitive department stores: Aitkin Emporium and House of Hepburn. Dandy Gilver, aristocratic lady detective of ...Read Review
A Rhumba in Waltz Time
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Los Angeles, 1933: Police detective Chris Blanchard of Hollywood Division is a straight cop for the LAPD who made the mistake of defending a ...Read Review
India Black and the Widow of Windsor
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Queen Victoria, perpetually grieving widow, hungers for news from “the other side” of her dearly departed Albert. Consulting a new medium from America ...Read Review
City of Promise: A Novel of New York’s Gilded Age
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The American Civil War is ending, and Confederate prisoner Joshua Turner returns to New York, minus a leg but filled with ambition. Solving ...Read Review
Murder Your Darlings
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Esteemed author Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch counseled, regarding beautifully written phrases, to expunge them: “murder your darlings.” Someone has taken him literally at the ...Read Review
The Stray Sod Country
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The Stray Sod Country sounds like a vast wasteland, but nothing is farther from the truth in 1950s Cullymore, Ireland. In this border ...Read Review
Heidegger’s Glasses
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Toward the end of World War II, a secret operation in Germany called Operation Mail flourishes in an abandoned mine shaft called the ...Read Review
An American Type
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The Great Depression was no help to poor, New York Jewish ghetto novelist Ira Stigman, who loathed his current dependence on his bossy, ...Read Review
