 | A Dying Light in Corduba (Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 1, 1999| Series: Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries Marcus Didius Falco is ready to make new contacts and start a new career, and a dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica seems like the perfect opportunity. But when two dinner guests are found beaten--one dead--Falco knows he cannot rest until he solves at least one more mystery. ...
 |  | The Last Dickens: A Novel
Release Date: March 17, 2009In his most enthralling novel yet, the critically acclaimed author Matthew Pearl reopens one of literary history’s greatest mysteries. The Last Dickens is a tale filled with the dazzling twists and turns, the unerring period details, and the meticulous research that thrilled readers of the bestsellers The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow.Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends his trusted clerk Daniel Sand to await the arrival of Di...
|  | Mrs. Jeffries Takes the Cake (Victorian Mystery)
Release Date: October 1, 1998| Series: Victorian Mystery The evidence was all there: a dead body, two dessert plates, and a gun. As if poor Mr. Ashbury had been sharing cake with his own killer! Now, Mrs. Jeffries and her staff must do some snooping around. They're more than happy to help dish up some clues... ...
|  | The Ape Who Guards the Balance: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense (Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
Release Date: February 23, 2010| Series: Amelia Peabody MysteriesAfter eluding a kidnapper in London, an unperturbed Amelia Peabody accompanies her unconventional family to Cairo once more—only to be ensnared almost immediately in a web of stolen treasures and bloodthirsty cults. Villainy is running rampant in Egypt this 1907 archaeological season, but the members of the intrepid Peabody-Emerson clan have already proven themselves to be formidable adversaries. However, when a mint-condition papyrus of the Book of the Dead falls into their hands, and the corpse of an unscrupulous deale...
|  | The Glass of Time: A Novel
Publication Date: October 5, 2009“Entirely wonderful . . . chock-full of revenge, romance, duplicity, concealed identities and murder most frequent.”—Washington PostBuilding on his haunting, superbly written debut, The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox returns to a story of murder, love, and revenge in Victorian England. The Glass of Time is a vividly imagined study of seduction, betrayal, and friendship between two powerful women bound together by the past. ...
|  | Crippen: A Novel of Murder
Release Date: January 23, 2007July 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden.Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr. Crippen capable of murder, yet the doctor and his mistress have disappeared from London, and now a full-scale hunt for them has begun.Across the Channel in Antwerp, the S.S. Montrose has jus...
|  | The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree (Darling Dahlias Mysteries)
Release Date: July 6, 2010| Series: Darling Dahlias Mysteries The country may be struggling through the Great Depression, but the good ladies of Darling, Alabama, are determined to keep their chins up and their town beautiful. Their garden club, the Darling Dahlias, has just inherited a new clubhouse and garden, complete with two beautiful cucumber trees in full bloom. But life in Darling is not all garden parties and rosemary lemonade. When local blond bombshell Bunny Scott is found in a suspicious car wreck, the Dahlias decide to dig into the town's buried secrets, and club members Lizzy, ...
|  | The Prince of Beverly Hills
Release Date: April 5, 2005| Series: Rick Barron Novel (Book 1) Rick Barron, a sharp, capable detective on the Beverly Hills force, finds himself demoted after a run-in with a superior officer, but he soon lands a job other cops only dream about: the security detail for Centurion Pictures, one of the hottest studios in the midst of Hollywood's golden age of the late 1930s. As the protector of the studio's interests, Barron looks after the elite of filmdom's stars - among them Clete Barrow, a British leading man with a penchant for parties, and Glenna Gleason, a peach of a talent on the verge...
|  | Prince of Darkness (A Medieval Mystery)
Release Date: March 7, 2006| Series: A Medieval Mystery (Book 4) Justin de Quincy hastens to Paris at the request of his former lover only to discover that she was acting on behalf of his nemesis, Prince John. The prince has been implicated in a plot to kill his brother, King Richard, and wants Justin to prove the incriminating document false. Realizing that John's suspected treachery may also risk the welfare of the woman he serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Justin reluctantly agrees to help. But his investigation unravels a sinister conspiracy that might change the course of English history. ...
|  | The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
Release Date: July 10, 2012From the best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, a daring reimagining of one of the most tumultuous moments in our nation’s past Stephen L. Carter’s thrilling new novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives the assassination attempt at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865. Two years later he is charged with overstepping his constitutional authority, both during and after the Civil War, and faces an impeachment trial . . . Twenty-one-year-old Abigail Canner is a young...
|  | Murder on the Leviathan: A Novel
Release Date: February 8, 2005Paris, 1878: Eccentric antiquarian Lord Littleby and his ten servants are found murdered in Littleby’s mansion on the rue de Grenelle, and a priceless Indian shawl is missing. Police commissioner “Papa” Gauche recovers only one piece of evidence from the crime scene: a golden key shaped like a whale. Gauche soon deduces that the key is in fact a ticket of passage for the Leviathan, a gigantic steamship soon to depart Southampton on its maiden voyage to Calcutta. The murderer must be among its passengers.In Cairo, the ship is boarded by a you...
|  | The Tudor Conspiracy: A Novel (Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles)
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|  | Place of Confinement (Dido Kent Mysteries 4)
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|  | Past Caring
Release Date: May 20, 2008At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance. His life ruined by scandal, Martin holds in his hands the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford. What’s more, Martin is being offered a job—to return to England and investigate the rise and fall of Strafford, an ambitious young politician whose downfall, in 1910, is as mysterious as the strange deaths that still haunt his family.Martin is intrigued by Strafford’ s story, by the man’s overwhel...
|  | The Death Instinct: A Novel
Release Date: January 3, 2012 From the international bestselling author-"a sprawling andambitious literary mystery" (The Seattle Times). From a true and shocking event-the bombing of lower Manhattan inSeptember 1920-Jed Rubenfeld weaves a twisting and thrilling work offiction as a physician, a female radiochemist, and a police officialcome to believe that the inexplicable attack is only part of a largerplan. It's a conspiracy that takes them from Paris to Prague, from theVienna home of Sigmund Freud to the corridors of power in Washington,D.C., and ultimately to the depths of our m...
|  | A Play of Piety (A Joliffe Mystery)
Release Date: December 7, 2010| Series: A Joliffe Mystery Ripped from the pages of the award-winning author's Dame Frevisse novels...A PLAGUE OF DEATH...While his troupe leader recovers from grievous injury, Joliffe is forced to find work in the treacherous world of a medieval hospital. Plagued almost to despair by the endless complaints and imaginary ailments of the elderly widow Mistress Cisily Thorncoffyn, the erstwhile spy and theatrical player is almost relieved to discover that patients are dying from more than their illnesses. Care for the sick and elderly in both body and soul is a...
|  | Death Comes as the End (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection)
Release Date: March 13, 2012| Series: Agatha Christie Mysteries CollectionIt is Egypt in 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a ka-priest. Young, beautiful, and venomous, most agree that it was fate—she deserved to die like a snake! But at her father's house on the banks of the Nile, the priest's daughter Renisenb believes that the woman's death is suspicious. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within their household—and watches helplessly as the family's passion...
|  | The Seven Wonders: A Novel of the Ancient World (Novels of Ancient Rome)
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|  | Person or Persons Unknown (Sir John Fielding)
Release Date: October 1, 1998| Series: Sir John Fielding John Fielding was famous not only as cofounder of London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, but also as a magistrate of keen intellect, fairness and uncommon detective ability. When a crime was committed, he often took it upon himself to solve it. What made this all the more remarkable was that he was blind. Now the blind magistrate and his young assistant and ward, Jeremy Proctor, face a series of crimes that hit shockingly close to home. Prostitutes are being murdered around Covent Garden, and there are troubling implicati...
|  | Death's Door (Detective Inspector Peter Shaw)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Detective Inspector Peter Shaw An idyllic island holds a dark secret . . . - On a hot August day in 1994, 76 holidaymakers travel to an island off the North Norfolk coast. Only 75 return alive – a young man is murdered, the case left unsolved. Twenty years later, using state-of-the-art forensics, the DNA results of a bloodsoaked towel prompts DI Peter Shaw to summon all 75 original suspects to a mass screening. but one of them, the beautiful Marianne Osbourne, is found dead in her bed. Is there a link to the 1994 murder? DI Shaw and DS Valentine b...
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