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England 1819. Thomas Shield, a master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Shield becomes entwined in their family’s affairs. When a brutal murder takes place in London’s seedy backstreets, all clues lead to the Frant family, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart. Soon, it emerges that at the heart of these macabre events lies the strange American boy. 

Undercover Pinkerton agent Clare Wright must find a killer in this gripping historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. June, 1890. Clare Wright, Pinkerton agent, is investigating an elaborate plot in New Mexico. Her cover job is working as a waitress at one of Fred...

A British spy is on holiday in the summer of 2017 when he sees something that makes him fearful. Only the shortest of messages makes it through: Elizabeth R. In a febrile political atmosphere, politicians and bureaucrats are being targeted around Europe. Is it possible that the Queen could be a...

It is 1890, and Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson reunite in the fog-bound, grimy streets of East London’s West Ham to unravel a chilling mystery that has haunted the district for years: the unexplained disappearance of local teenage girls. When another young victim, Amelia Jeffs, vanishes and her...

When a famous guest goes missing from one of San Francisco’s most luxurious hotels, mayhem and murder ensue in this witty historical mystery. This second book in the Murder Most Fowl Mysteries is perfect for fans of Only Murders in the Building. San Francisco, 1905. Renowned for its daily duck...

Carolyn Marie Wilkins presents Book 3 in the Psychics and Soul Food series...

Bad writing leads to actual murder when an elite group of mystery writers publish a list of unforgivable sins in detective fiction… Inspired by Agatha Christie’s real-life Detection Club! June, 1931. Frank and Lucy Murray have become the most famous married couple in the crime writing world...

Eliza had resigned herself to the life of a lady's maid, but when her sister inherits a sprawling coastal estate in Cornwall, her life is turned upside down. Sarah E. Ladd's latest Regency romance is perfect for fans of Julie Klassen. Elizabeth Lattimore and her sister grew up on the Penmarrow...

Henkersohn. Söldner. Mörder? 1626: Deutschland versinkt im Dreißigjährigen Krieg. Jakob Kuisl ist knapp fünfzehn, Sohn eines Henkers, und er schwört, dass dieses Erbe ihn nicht einholen wird. Doch Jakobs Leben gerät aus den Fugen, als sein bester Freund auf schreckliche Weise ermordet...

AN IMPOSSIBLE CRIME. AN IRREPLACEABLE TREASURE. ANOTHER DAY'S WORK FOR HAVELOCK HARPER England's greatest gay gentleman detective has a new case to solve. Something priceless has gone missing from the Oxford Museum of Natural History: the only preserved chrysalises of an extinct species of...

A cozy culinary mystery in which a man who was unfairly exiled finds a new purpose investigating crime through his knowledge of food, for fans of The Kamogawa Food Detectives. Heo Gyun (huh gyoon) is a detective of a different flavour: a “gourmet detective.”  With an exceptional palate, he...

Heo Gyun is a detective of a different flavour: a "gourmet detective." With an exceptional palate, he can taste a dish once and immediately reconstruct the recipe in his mind. He understands how seasonings pair, the properties of ingredients, and how food interacts with the human body. Exiled to...

The sixth installment in New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray’s beloved Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mystery series finds amateur sleuths Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney fleeing to Bath where their elopement plans are interrupted by a murder Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney have thrown...

Frances Lunn grew up running free on Assateague Island, a place made famous by wild horses, white-sand beaches, and whispers of lost treasure. Years later, she transformed that childhood into a best-selling memoir, until her sister Maeve publicly dismantled it, calling the story a fabrication and leaving Frances in personal and professional ruin.

Lady Holmes and Mrs Hudson return in this cosy sapphic historical mystery which reimagines the Sherlock universe. ''Please, Inspector, we never let our sensibilities stand in the way of facts'. Katy Hudson and Lady Violet Holmes are settling into life at Musgrave Hall: solving crimes, bickering...

The irresistible Rip Through Time series by bestselling author Kelley Armstrong continues as a husband seemingly returns from the dead to stop his wife’s wedding. After falling 150 years back in time, Mallory Mitchell’s life in Victorian Scotland finally feels like hers. Not only is she now...

Love is deadly Adrian Carthallow, a dramatic and talented artist, is no stranger to controversy. But this time it’s not his paintings that have provoked a blaze of publicity — it’s the fact that his career has been suddenly terminated by a bullet to the head. Not only that, but his wife...

Amateur detectives Augusta and Julia Colebrook use their wits and invisibility as “old maids” to rescue a noblewoman behind enemy lines in this thrilling feminist Regency mystery from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. Forty-two-year-old Lady Augusta (Gus) Colebrook and her...

Claude Monet captured light on the canvas in a way that changed art forever. But his own life held dark secrets. In 1914, on the eve of World War I, Claude Monet is going blind and has given up painting. His daughter-in-law, Blanche, painter herself, has come to care for Claude after the death...

THE NEW BESTSELLING SERIES FROM THE MASTER OF HISTORICAL CRIME FICTION, S. J. PARRIS England, 1601. Treason threatens the realm. When the body of a Scottish envoy washes up on the banks of the Thames, the Queen’s most powerful spymaster, Robert Cecil, is accused of arranging the murder. Cecil...