Waheed Rabbani
A Very Pukka Murder: The First Maharajah Mystery
On January 1, 1909, in Rajpore, India, His Highness Maharaja Sikander Singh is woken at noon in his ostentatious palace,…
The Return of the Raven Mocker
In 1918, Alafair Tucker moves to Boynton, Oklahoma, to care for her daughter and son-in-law, both incapacitated by the Spanish…
The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds
In 1878 in a small Malay village, little Chye Hoon, a Nyonya (Malaysian of Chinese descent), is visiting a temple.…
The Lucky Hat Mine
New Orleans, 1863. Millie Virginia, an orphan, sees an advertisement: “Wanted: a wife. Prospector … Idaho Springs.” At 23, Millie…
It Is Well
In 1939 in a cemetery in Snohomish, Washington, Jonathan Beecher stands mournfully at the burial of his wife, who has…
Agrippa’s Wake
Around 27 BC in Rome, after Octavian becomes the first Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, a man stands beside a tombstone…
Mr Campion’s Fault
In 1969, Perdita and her husband Rupert, both Londoners, arrive in the Yorkshire coal mining village of Denby Ash. Perdita,…
The Question of Red
Following an awe-inspiring prologue, in which the Hindu epic Mahabharata is synopsized, the novel opens in 2006 in a hospital…
A Jacketing Concern
In 1811, within a mansion in London’s Somers Town, Lord Roderick, sixth Baron Davenant, lies in bed in the arms…
Against the Light: An Irish Nationalist Mystery set in Edwardian London
In 1912, with the disaster of the Titanic headlining the newspapers, young Dr. Alice Latimer bicycles across London from her…
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