The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes – A True-Life Victorian Murder Mystery
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime
- Era(s): 1890s
The real-life inspiration for Holmes & Watson and a sensational murder mystery that rocked Victorian Britain. First published as The Ardlamont Mystery in 2018, to great reviews, The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes: A True-Life Victorian Murder Mystery is...
The Mended Circle traces several generations born of Philo Marie Sonnier, a deranged and brutal Confederate soldier, and an unknown black woman. “Moonlight and The Farmer” -“Josephine Carried By Her Lord” -“Biddie Meets Miss Alice Paul” are just a...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
The Mended Circle traces several generations born of Philo Marie Sonnier, a deranged and brutal Confederate soldier, and an unknown black woman. “Moonlight and The Farmer” -“Josephine Carried By Her Lord” -“Biddie Meets Miss Alice Paul” are just a...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
From acclaimed spy novelist Paul Vidich comes a taut new thriller following the attempted exfiltration of a KGB officer from the ever-changing—and always dangerous—USSR in the mid-1980s. Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
There’s something rotten in the state of Indiana. When con man Henry Page takes it upon himself to investigate the death of an elderly patient at a care facility, he does so in true Shakespearean tradition: dressed as a...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
- Era(s): 14th-century
Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of the Marchesa Origo’s study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the later-Middle Ages. In 1870 the whole astonishing cache, containing some 150,000...
- Location(s): Crediton
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Medieval
As midwife and healer, Agatha Kyteler is regarded as a witch by her superstitious neighbours in the village of Wefford in Devonshire, yet she has no shortage of callers, from the humblest villein to the most elegant and wealthy...
- Location(s): Dartmouth, Dorset
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Detective Sergeant (and amateur archaeologist) Wesley Peterson hoped that a transfer from the lively but frantic pace of London to the bucolic river port of Tradmouth would have a positive effect on both his personal and professional lives. But...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1618
For readers of Circe and The Handmaid’s Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Mercies is a story about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful. Winter, 1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø...
- Location(s): Bradford
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
Bradford, December 1962. A precocious Mercy makes her reluctant entrance into the world, torn from the warm embrace of her mother’s womb, to a chaotic household that seems to have no place for her. Her siblings do not understand...
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