 | Louise's Gamble (Louise Pearlie)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Louise Pearlie Young widow Louise Pearlie becomes embroiled in a perilous game of mafia bosses, Nazi spies and banished royalty in this wartime novel of suspense - 1942, Washington DC. Young widow Louise Pearlie is now a chief file clerk at the legendary OSS, the precursor to the CIA, and enjoying being an independent, working woman despite wartime privations. But a casual friendship struck up with Alessa di Luca, a secretive war refugee, sucks Louise into a dangerous game of mafia bosses, Nazi spies, banished royalty and Sicilian aristocracy – pl...
 |  | Rag and Bone: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery (Billy Boyle World War II Mysteries)
Release Date: September 13, 2011| Series: Billy Boyle World War II Mysteries Billy Boyle is sent to London to investigate the murder of a Soviet official. Was it random or revenge for the recently uncovered mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest? Scotland Yard suspects Billy's friend Kaz, now working for the Polish Government in Exile. With a diplomatic crisis looming, Billy must find the killer and save his friend. ...
|  | The Silver Pigs: A Marcus Didius Falco Novel (Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries)
Release Date: September 13, 2011| Series: Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries The Silver Pigs is the classic novel which introduced readers around the world to Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer with a knack for trouble, a tendency for bad luck, and a frequently incovenient drive for justice. When Marcus Didius Falco encounters the young and very pretty Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately that there is something amiss. When she confesses that she is fleeing for her life, Falco offers to help her and, in doing so, he ...
|  | Stealing Mona Lisa: A Mystery
Release Date: August 2, 2011A Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2011 Fiction and a Library Journal Best Mystery of 2011What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting?The charming Eduardo de Valfierno makes a very respectable living in Argentina fleecing the nouveau rich—they pay him to steal valuable pieces of art, and Valfierno sells them flawless forgeries instead. But when Eduardo meets the beautiful Mrs. Hart on his latest con, he takes a risk that forces him back to the city he l...
|  | Dear Mr. Holmes: Seven Holmes on the Range Mysteries
Publication Date: April 12, 2011Sherlock Holmes-worshiping cowboys Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer have starred in five "Holmes on the Range" novels, rustling up award nominations and fans aplenty as they cracked mysteries using the methods of their English hero. How did these Old West drifters first discover Holmes, though? What were they doing before their novel adventures began? And how did their early, awkward stabs at "deducifying" turn out? These seven short stories provide the answers. In "Dear Mr. Holmes," Old Red first gets the itch to turn detective --...
|  | The Coral Thief: A Novel
Release Date: September 15, 2009Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is on his way to the island of St. Helena to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to study anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes–only to realize that his letters of introduction and a gift of precious coral specimens, on which his tenure with the legendary Dr. Cuvier depends, have been stolen by the beautiful woman with whom he shared a stagecoach.In the fervor and tumult of post revolutionary Paris, nothing is quite as it seems....
|  | In a Gilded Cage (Molly Murphy Mysteries)
Release Date: March 2, 2010| Series: Molly Murphy Mysteries It’s Easter Sunday 1918, and Irish immigrant Molly Murphy has agreed to march down Fifth Avenue with the sign-wielding suffragettes from Vassar—a civil act of protest that lands her in jail. Molly’s betrothed, Police Captain Daniel Sullivan, manages to spring her from the clink, though his hands are full dealing with Chinese opium gangs. But as soon as she’s free, Molly marches straight into trouble again. Two of the Vassar alumni need Molly’s help as a private investigator. One believes her uncle is ch...
|  | The Triumph of Caesar: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Roma Sub Rosa)
Release Date: July 7, 2009| Series: Roma Sub Rosa The Roman civil war has come to its conclusion – Pompey is dead, Egypt is firmly under the control of Cleopatra (with the help of Rome’s legions), and for the first time in many years Julius Caesar has returned to Rome itself. Appointed by the Senate as Dictator, the city abounds with rumors asserting that Caesar wishes to be made King – the first such that Rome has had in centuries. And that not all of his opposition has been crushed.Gordianus, recently returned from Egypt with his wife Bethesda, is essential...
|  | In Like Flynn (Molly Murphy Mysteries)
Release Date: November 29, 2005| Series: Molly Murphy Mysteries A woman private eye in a man's world, Molly Murphy is having a hard time succeeding as a New York shamus. That's why she agrees to go undercover for the NYPD to expose a pair of spiritualist sisters as con-artists even though the offer comes from police captain Daniel Sullivan. Sullivan had once won Molly's heart--until she discovered he already had a socialite fiancé and an upcoming wedding. Now Molly's masquerading as a cousin from Ireland at the Hudson River mansion of Senator Barney Flynn. Flynn's invalid wife hopes the...
|  | The Oath (Knights Templar)
Publication Date: July 1, 2011| Series: Knights Templar Now in paperback, a gripping mystery from the master of medieval crime set amid the turmoil of war, where nobody's life is safe 1326. In an England riven with conflict, knight and peasant alike find their lives turned upside down by the warring factions of Edward II, with his hated favorite, Hugh le Despenser; and Edward's estranged queen Isabella and her lover, Sir Roger Mortimer. Yet even in such times the brutal slaughter of an entire family, right down to a babe in arms, still has the power to shock. Three further murders follo...
|  | Bluffing Mr. Churchill: An Inspector Troy Thriller
Publication Date: July 31, 2012| Series: Inspector Troy Thriller It is 1941. Wolfgang Stahl, an American spy operating undercover as an SS officer, has just fled Germany with Hitler’s henchmen on his trail. He is carrying valuable cargo—the blueprint of the Führer’s secret plan to invade Russia. Stahl’s man in the American embassy, the shy and sheltered Calvin M. Cormack, is teamed with a boisterous MI5 officer, Walter Stilton, to find the spy and bring him to safety. Their investigation takes them across war-torn London, from the shelled-out blocks to the ubiquit...
|  | Mrs. Jeffries Holds the Trump
Release Date: June 3, 2008| Series: Mrs. Jeffries Mrs. Jeffries must swim upstream to catch a killer.Successful local Michael Provost had no enemies, yet he was found dead off the Chelsea Vestry Wharf. With the help of her staff, Mrs. Jeffries dives into an investigation that leads to an earlier crime—and even more questions. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | When Johnny Came Marching Home
Publication Date: October 2, 2012"A solid historical from Edgar-winner Heffernan."--Publishers Weekly"Sliding back and forth in time—before, during, and after the Civil War—William Heffernan creates a powerful, intriguing, and complex novel about the intricacies of friendship and the devastating effects of war."—Jonathan Santlofer, author of The Death Artist"When Johnny Came Marching Home evokes a young soldier's reluctant relationship to violence and brutality with a chilling realism that brings the reader face-to-face with the moral complexities of even the most noble of war...
|  | Cut to the Quick: Julian Kestrel #1
Publication Date: April 16, 2010| Series: Julian Kestrel (Book 1) Julian Kestrel is the walking definition of a Regency-era dandy. He cares about little beyond the perfection of his tailoring, he lives for the bon mot, and his life has the specific gravity and the fleeting charm of a soap-bubble. At least that's what he'd like you to think. In fact, it rather suits Kestrel to be perpetually underestimated, particularly when as in this instance his weekend at a glamorous country estate is spoiled by a dead girl's body being found in his bed. ...
|  | Dead Man's Ransom
Publication Date: March 1, 1997| Series: Brother Cadfael Mysteries (Book 9) The year is 1141 and civil war continues to rage. When the sheriff of Shropshire is taken prisoner, arrangements are made to exchange him for Elis, a young Welshman. But when the sheriff is brought to the abbey, he is murdered. Suspicion falls on Elis, who has fallen in love with the sheriff's daughter. With nothing but his Welsh honor to protect him, Elis appeals to Brother Cadfael for help. And Brother Cadfael gives it, not knowing that the truth will be a trial for his own soul. ...
|  | Children of the Storm: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense (Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Series: Amelia Peabody MysteriesThe Great War has ended at last. No longer must archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, the distinguished Egyptologist, fear for the life of their daring son, Ramses, now free from his dangerous wartime obligations to British Intelligence. But in the aftermath of conflict, evil still casts a cold shadow over violence-scarred Egypt. The theft of valuable antiquities from the home of a friend causes great concern in the Emerson household. Ramses’s strange encounter with a woman costumed in the veil and gold cr...
|  | Jane and the Man of the Cloth: Being the Second Jane Austen Mystery (Being A Jane Austen Mystery)
Release Date: November 3, 1997| Series: Being A Jane Austen Mystery For everyone who loves Jane Austen...the second tantalizing mystery in a new series that transforms the beloved author into a dazzling sleuth!Jane and her family are looking forward to a peaceful holiday in the seaside village of Lyme Regis.Yet on the outskirts of town an overturned carriage forces the shaken travelers to take refuge at a nearby manor house.And it is there that Jane meets the darkly forbidding yet strangely attractive Mr. Geoffrey Sidmouth.What murky secrets does the brooding Mr.Sidmouth seek to hide?Jane su...
|  | The Spy (An Isaac Bell Adventure)
Release Date: June 1, 2010| Series: An Isaac Bell Adventure Unabridged CDs, 10 CDs, 12 hours Read by TBA Detective Isaac Bell, hero of The Chase and The Wrecker, returns in the remarkable new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. ...
|  | Mrs. Jeffries Appeals the Verdict
Release Date: May 2, 2006| Series: Mrs. Jeffries GUILTY BYSTANDERS After a perfectly decent local woman is killed during a robbery, the Witherspoon household receives a surprising visit from a stranger named Blimpey Groggins. He claims his best buddy was convicted of the crime. He also claims the peaceable chap didn’t even know how to fire a gun. And considering he’s to be hanged in three weeks, Blimpey’s desperate to find the real killer. With the trail cold, the crime allegedly solved, and the evidence mucked up, Mrs. Jeffries and her belowstairs cohorts have their work c...
|  | Venus in Copper: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery (Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries)
Release Date: January 18, 2011| Series: Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries Rome, AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco is deperate to leave the notorious Lautumiae prison - though being bailed out by his mother is a slight indignity... Things go from bad to worse though when a group of nouveau riche ex-slaves hire him to outwit a fortune-hunting redhead, whose husbands have a habit of dying accidently, leaving him up against a female contortionist, her extra-friendly snake, indigestible cakes and rent racketeers. And, all the while, trying to lure Helena Justina to live w...
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