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Death Among The Diamonds

Death Among The Diamonds
  • Author(s): Fliss Chester
  • Location(s): Newbury
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1925

Everyone in 1920s London knows the Honourable Cressida Fawcett: fiercely independent (though never apart from her little pug Ruby), lover of martinis and interior designer extraordinaire. She’s solved many crimes of fashion… so how about murder? Cressida Fawcett is...

Death at the Plague Museum

Death at the Plague Museum
  • Author(s): Lesley Kelly
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Three senior civil servants are dead or missing. As their brief is management of the deadly Virus, Bernard, Mona and the rest of the hard-pressed Health Enforcement Team are fighting not just a pandemic, but government secrets.

Death By Baguette

Death By Baguette
  • Author(s): Jennifer S Alderson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lana Hansen’s future is looking bright. She has money in her bank account, a babysitter for her cat, and even a boyfriend. Regrettably she won’t get to celebrate Valentine’s Day with her new beau, Chad. Instead, she will be...

Death by Windmill

Death by Windmill
  • Author(s): Jennifer S Alderson
  • Location(s): Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wanderlust Tours guide Lana Hansen and her mother, Gillian, haven’t seen eye to eye in over a decade, ever since Lana was wrongly fired from her job as an investigative reporter. So when Lana’s boss invites Gillian to join...

Death Down The Aisle

Death Down The Aisle
  • Author(s): Verity Bright
  • Location(s): Buckinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

The society wedding of the decade has everything: the blushing bride, beautiful flowers… and the groom arrested before he can walk down the aisle? Thank goodness Lady Swift is on the guest list! Lady Eleanor Swift isn’t normally one...

Death in Provence

Death in Provence
  • Author(s): Serena Kent
  • Location(s): The Luberon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Penelope Kite swaps her humdrum life in Surrey for a picturesque farmhouse in the south of France, she imagines a simple life of long lunches and chilled rosé . . . What she doesn’t imagine is the dead...

Death in the East

Death in the East
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • Location(s): Assam, Kolkata (Calcutta), London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, are back for another rip-roaring adventure set in 1920s India. 1905, London. As a young constable, Sam Wyndham is on his usual East London beat when...

Death in the Floating City

Death in the Floating City
  • Author(s): Tasha Alexander
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1400s to Victorian

Emily is called upon, along with her husband Colin to help solve the murder. This leads her into the depths of a centuries old feud between warring families, and a star-crossed love story worthy of Romeo and Juliet.

Death in the Rainy Season

Death in the Rainy Season
  • Author(s): Anna Jaquiery
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Phnom Penh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the rainy season. When a French man, Hugo Quercy, is found brutally murdered, Commandant Serge Morel finds his holiday drawn to an abrupt halt. Quercy – dynamic, well-connected – was the magnetic head of a humanitarian...

Death of a Red Heroine

Death of a Red Heroine
  • Author(s): Qiu Xiaolong
  • Location(s): Shanghai

Communist China is a compelling setting, political intrigues, and Party dynamics, China of the 1990s – and its food, culture and people. Inspector Chen and Detective Yu are likable and rounded characters, who persue their cases their cramped living...

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