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Murder at Waldenmere Lake

Murder at Waldenmere Lake
  • Author(s): Michelle Salter
  • Location(s): Fleet
  • Genre(s): Historical, Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

A murder shocks the small town of Walden. And it’s only the beginning… Walden, 1921. Local reporter Iris Woodmore is determined to save her beloved lake, Waldenmere, from destruction. After a bloody and expensive war, the British Army can’t...

Murder Before Evensong

Murder Before Evensong
  • Author(s): Richard Coles
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother – opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey – and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. When Daniel announces...

Murder by the Minster

Murder by the Minster
  • Author(s): Helen Cox
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

SET IN THE PICTURESQUE CITY OF YORK Meet Kitt Hartley: librarian, trilby-wearer, Lady Grey tea-drinker, taker of no nonsense… detective? It’s a perfectly normal day for Kitt Hartley at her job at the University of the Vale of York...

Murder Fortissimo

Murder Fortissimo
  • Author(s): Nicola Slade
  • Location(s): Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When newly retired headmistress, Harriet Quigley, needs a good rest and somewhere comfortable to recover from a hospital stay, she believes Firstone Grange will be the ideal place. Luxurious and perfectly run by a competent and understanding matron, it...

Murder in a Somerset Village

Murder in a Somerset Village
  • Author(s): Jon Harris
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

When an amateur sleuth’s pub colleague is bumped off, can she work out who called time at the bar? Since getting her life back on track after being wrongly accused of murder, Julia Ford is finally realizing her ambition...

Murder in Cambridge

Murder in Cambridge
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1935

(Blind Detective, 5) First published as End of Term under A. C. Koning. Cambridge, 1935. Frederick Rowlands, blind war veteran, is attending an event at St Gertrude’s College. However, the festivities are harshly interrupted when when a research student...

Murder in Constantinople

Murder in Constantinople
  • Author(s): A E Goldin
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Whitechapel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1854

Graham Greene meets David Lean in Murder in Constantinople – a historical murder mystery in which a wayward boy from London’s East End is pulled into the hunt for a serial killer on the eve of the Crimean War...

Murder in Drury Lane

Murder in Drury Lane
  • Author(s): Vanessa Riley
  • Location(s): Soho (London)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 19th Century

(The Lady Worthing Mysteries Book 2) Offering “a vibrant picture of the roles Black and mixed‑race people played in Regency life” (Publishers Weekly), this unique historical mystery series, featuring a mixed-race heroine with a notorious past, will appeal to...

Murder in Hampstead

Murder in Hampstead
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

A locked-room mystery about a seemingly impossible crime When lawyer-turned-interior designer Lucia Steer accepts a lucrative job renovating Beatrice Hall, a large house owned by a professor in a north London suburb, she has no idea of the impact...

Murder in Hexham

Murder in Hexham
  • Author(s): Martyn Taylor
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Pen Darling Book 3 A retirement plan gone wrong. Lawrence Mains is rich — and ready to vanish. The property tycoon has his retirement planned out and it means leaving the country. But days before he plans to...

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