 | Death at Glamis Castle (Robin Paige Victorian Mysteries, No. 9)
Release Date: March 2, 2004Lord Charles Sheridan and his clever American wife, Kate, have been summoned by the king to clear the name of a prince who's been living secretly at Glamis under an assumed name, while keeping his true identity secret....
 |  | 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...
|  | The Seven Wonders: A Novel of the Ancient World (Novels of Ancient Rome)
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|  | 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...
|  | 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 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Death on the Lizard (Robin Paige Victorian Mysteries, No. 12)
Release Date: July 3, 2007Two apparently accidental deaths at the Marconi telegraph station. The drowning of a local girl. Two cases that involve Charles, Lord Sheridan, and his wife, Kate, in foreign espionage, malicious intrigue, and inexplicable messages sent out of the blue. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Place of Confinement (Dido Kent Mysteries 4)
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|  | To Kingdom Come: A Novel
Publication Date: February 7, 2006Victorian enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his young assistant Thomas Llewelyn, first introduced in Will Thomas's critically acclaimed debut novel Some Danger Involved, are back with a new mission in To Kingdom Come. When a bomb destroys the Special Irish Branch of Scotland Yard, all fingers point to the increasingly brazen factions of Irish dissidents seeking liberation from English rule. Volunteering their services to the British government, Barker and Llewelyn set out to infiltrate a secret cell of the Irish Republican Brotherhood known as the Invisibles. P...
|  | 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 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...
|  | Gone West: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries)
Release Date: January 17, 2012| Series: Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries A novelist has gone murdered and Daisy Dalrymple investigates— in a series that’s “pleasantly reminiscent of the old-fashioned English mysteries of a bygone era.” —The Denver Post onGunpowder Plot In September 1926, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby, a school friend now living in Derbyshire as the confidential secretary to a novelist. Suspecting that something is seriously amiss, Sybil has asked Daisy to discretely investigate. Upon arrival, Daisy finds a household...
|  | 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... ...
|  | Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton: A Novel
Release Date: October 28, 2003In 1696, Christopher Ellis, a young, hot-tempered gentleman, is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. A sudden twist of fate has led him there to assist the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton, who as Warden of the Royal Mint has accepted an appointment to hunt down counterfeiters who threaten to topple the shaky, war-weakened economy. Armed with Newton’s superior intellect and Ellis’s skill with a sword, the new partners seem primed to solve the case. But when their investigation leads them to a mysterious coded message on a corpse h...
|  | 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...
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