When it comes to dramatic death scenes, few screenwriters have surpassed William Shakespeare. He raised that bar sky high four hundred years ago, with demises ranging from the realistically tragic (Ophelia’s drowning in Hamlet) to the action-packed (any of the stirring battles in his history plays), the downright bizarre (Antigonus’ legendary “exit, pursued by a…
Death of an American Beauty by Mariah Fredericks is the third book in the compelling Jane Prescott series, set in Gilded Age New York, where the ladies’ maid is determined to discover who is making death into their own twisted art form. Ladies’ maid Jane Prescott’s vacation doesn’t go quite according to plan. First, she’s…
Who Speaks for the Damned by C. S. Harris is the 15th Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery, where the viscount investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman convicted of murder. While London is in the midst of a gala for the Allied Sovereigns’ celebration commemorating the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Sebastian St. Cyr,…
It’s January 1832 in Scotland, and Kiera — former Lady Darby, now Mrs. Gage — and her husband, Sebastian, are attending a Twelfth Night party hosted by the scandalous and flamboyant Duchess of Bowmont. Usually, such festivities would be of no interest to the introverted artist, but after spending the holidays with her family —…
Charming divorcée Penelope Kent is finally settling into her gorgeous new home in Provence. The English transplant’s first few months in the countryside were fraught with murder, but now she’s looking forward to finishing the renovations on her house, picking up the cello again — and romancing the handsome mayor of St. Merlot. But Fate…
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James is an eery, spellbinding tale spanning two generations of women and centering on an Upstate New York motel where something hasn’t been right for a very long time. Fell, New York, 1982: Twenty-year-old Viv Delaney leaves an unhappy home in Illinois for New York City but finds…
Over a hundred years ago, the Catskills village of Galesburg was destroyed in the name of progress. Flooded, so the Chilewaukee Reservoir could be built, in order to funnel water downstate to quench the thirst of New York City. But the people of Galesburg didn’t go without a fight. Some didn’t go at all… They…
You may remember me. Think back. The summer of 1990. I know that’s a while ago, but the wire services picked up the story and I was in every newspaper in the country… I stayed in the news for two or three days, but even when the cameras and the reporters moved on to…
Kate Keddie’s smooth, predictable life careens off course when her husband, John, doesn’t return from a medical conference in London. A conference, she quickly discovers, he never attended. For a job he hasn’t had in months. The bigger question was where had John been for the past three months? Nausea swept through her system. Her…
The Mitford Scandal by Jessica Fellowes is the third book in the Mitford Murders series, where lady’s maid Louisa Cannon accompanies Diana Mitford into a turbulent late-1920s Europe. June 1928: Louisa Cannon, former nursery maid to the colorful Mitford family, is realizing the life of an independent career girl in London is more difficult than…
