Could I solve a murder? As a dedicated mystery reader since I picked up my first Agatha Christie (The Seven Dials Murder) around the precocious age of eleven, I’ve often wondered how my skills of detection would stack up in a real case. I’d like to think that I’d at least know a little bit…
This might be one of the most sophisticatedly structured books I’ve had the pleasure of reading this year! In all honesty, I didn’t think it would be, given the novel’s oddly unpolished first few pages. The voice of our narrator Anisa Ellahi comes across as both awkward and scattered, but as she relaxes into her…
What an extraordinarily absorbing historical mystery, filled with just as much swashbuckling derring-do as it is intellectual conundrums! Robert J. Lloyd draws from real figures and events of the 17th-century to frame his exciting tale of a young scientist seeking out the truth under the most perilous of circumstances. In 1679 London, Harry Hunt faces…
Get an early look at the gorgeous cover of The Dark Heart of Florence (Minotaur Books, March 2021), by critically acclaimed author Tasha Alexander. Read on for an excerpt of the latest Lady Emily mystery that transports readers to the legendary city of Florence, where Lady Emily and Colin solve a murder with clues leading…
The time is 1703, the dawn of a new century. Amateur botanist Lady Cecily Kay has traveled from Smyrna to London. Her diplomat husband encouraged her to leave Turkey; theirs is not an amicable marriage. Cecily has arranged to stay in London at the house of noted collector Sir Barnaby Mayne. Access to his research…
Prologue When the car bypassed the main terminal building and pulled up next to a sign that said PRIVATE JET CENTER, Emily breathed in so fast she almost choked. “You’re kidding me,” she said to her driver (her very own driver!), who smiled and opened the door for her like she was Cinderella. A security…
Betrayal in Time is the fourth book in Julie McElwain’s Kendra Donovan series. Donovan’s adventures in nineteenth-century England continue when she is called upon to investigate the murder of a spymaster. My only regret in picking up this novel is that I hadn’t been able to read the three others in the series first. And…
With centuries of history to dive into, the U.K. has borne some of the most notorious serial killers the world has ever seen. But it’s the streets of London that have seen the grisliest goings-on. From as far back as the early 1800s, the once poverty-stricken areas either side of the River Thames have witnessed…
In Patrick McGuinness’ Throw Me to the Wolves, a classic police procedural is turned upside-down when the investigating detective realizes that the man accused of murder is someone from his past.
The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear is the 15th installment of the Maisie Dobbs series, and now Maisie must balance her dangerous new case while her own feelings of love and grief threaten to overwhelm her. Intrepid investigator Maisie Dobbs drives an ambulance during the London Blitz, investigates a sensitive case of murder, hopes to adopt an orphan,…
