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One for Sorrow: A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery

by Mary Reed & Eric Mayer

Byzantium, capitol of the 6th century Roman Empire, simmers a rich stew of creeds, cultures, and citizens with a sprinkling of cutthroats and crimes. John the Eunuch, Emperor Justinian's Lord Chamberlain, orders...


The Last Titanic Story

by Chris Angus

What could possibly connect the famous sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and a WWII German U-boat loaded with a mysterious cargo? In this tribute to the 100th anniversary of the famous disaster, Chris Angus takes...


Interrogation Tango

by Donald Schwarz & Victoria King-Voreadi

Interrogation Tango is an anti-detective story, based on real events and people, about an assassin who drove the Gestapo crazy because they could not explain him away.


Out of the Black Land

by Kerry Greenwood

Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams. Ptah-hotep, a young peasant...


Unnatural Habits

Phryne Fisher #19

by Kerry Greenwood

1929: Girls are going missing in Melbourne. Little, pretty golden haired girls. And not just pretty. Three of them are pregnant, poor girls from the harsh confines of the Magdalene Laundry. People are getting...


The Bull Slayer

Plinius Secundus Mysteries #2

by Bruce Macbain

A turbulent frontier province, rotten with corruption and seething with hatred of Rome-a barbarian god whose devotees may include a murderer -a clever and unscrupulous faith healer who knows everyone's secrets-a...


The Sanctity of Hate: A Medieval Mystery

by Priscilla Royal

The murder victim, a newcomer, was disliked in Tyndal village, and no one wants one of their own hanged for the deed. Fingers quickly point to a Jewish family, refugees under the relocation provisions of King...


Holy Smoke: A Jerusalem Mystery

by Frederick Ramsay

The year is 29 C. E. and Jerusalem chafes under the Roman Empire's continued presence and oppressive rule. But in spite of that unpleasant fact of life, life goes on-but not for everyone. People die, some because...


Make Believe: An Edna Ferber Mystery

by Ed Ifkovic

In June 1951 Edna Ferber heads to Hollywood to support an old friend who has found himself blacklisted, The McCarthy hearings in Washington have rattled Hollywood with allegations of Communist-leaning sympathies....


The Wrong Hill to Die On: An Alafair Tucker Mystery

by Donis Casey

Murder and illness, rumors of war, rain and floods worthy of the Bible. Nineteen-sixteen was not shaping up to be a good year for Alafair Tucker, and finding Bernie Arruda dead in a ditch wasn't going to help...


Face of the Enemy: A New York in Wartime Mystery

by Joanne Dobson & Beverle Graves Myers

December 1941: America reels from the brutal attack on Pearl Harbor. Both patriotism and paranoia grip New York as the city frantically mobilizes for war. Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged when the FBI, in a midnight...


A Surfeit of Guns: A Sir Robert Carey Mystery

by P F Chisholm

Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of creditors and court life. However the dashing Carey, possibly a cousin of the Queen, merely trades...


A Season of Knives: A Sir Robert Carey Mystery

by P F Chisholm

In 1592, Sir Robert Carey, a handsome courtier fleeing his creditors, his father's wrath, and the close scrutiny of his Queen, came north to Carlisle to take up his new post as Deputy Warden of the West March....


A Plague of Angels: A Sir Robert Carey Mystery

by P F Chisholm

In 1592, dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of creditors and court life. Trouble, however, dogs his heels wherever he...


Fatal Induction: A Professor Bradshaw Mystery

by Bernadette Pajer

Seattle, 1901. The race to win an electrical competition incites Professor Bradshaw's obsession for invention in this sequel to A SPARK OF DEATH. The winner's telephonic system will deliver music of the Seattle...


A Famine of Horses: A Sir Robert Carey Mystery

by P F Chisholm

In the year 1592, Sir Robert Carey, a handsome courtier, comes north to Carlisle to take up his new post as Deputy Warden of the West March. He has wangled his appointment to be nearer his true love, a married...


The Bughouse Affair

by Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini

In The Bughouse Affair, this first of a new series of lighthearted historical mysteries set in 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent...


Target Lancer

Nathan Heller #16

by Max Allan Collins

Long before November 22, 1963, Nathan Heller, “P.I. to the Stars,” knows that a conspiracy is in the works. Several years earlier, Heller had been involved with the Kennedys, the Mob, and the CIA in the...


Castle Rouge

Irene Adler #6

by Carole Nelson Douglas

IRENE ADLER

Operatic diva. Femme fatale. Adventuress.

And one of the world's most intriguing detectives.

Before Caleb Carr, Anne Perry, and Laurie R. King, Carole Nelson Douglas gave readers a delightful look...


Spider Dance

Irene Adler #8

by Carole Nelson Douglas

Irene Adler is the beautiful opera singer who bested the best detective in the world, the only woman to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes. She has spent years in self-imposed exile in Europe, in an attempt to reinvent...