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Check out the first book in a variety of historical mystery series, ranging from ancient Rome to Europe during World War II.
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And only to deceive
Tasha Alexander - William Morrow; 1ST edition
Format: Book
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For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. So when Emily's dashing husband died on safari soon after their wedding, she felt little grief. After all, she barely knew him. Now,... |
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Billy Boyle
James R. Benn - Soho Crime; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he’d barely made detective when war was declared.... |
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Murphy's Law
Rhys Bowen - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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Molly Murphy always knew she'd end up in trouble, just as her mother predicted. So, when she commits murder in self-defense, she flees her cherished Ireland, under cover of a false identity, for the anonymous shores of late nineteenth-century America. When she arrives in New York and sees... |
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The Ides of April: A Flavia Albia Mystery
Lindsey Davis - Minotaur Books
Format: Book
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Flavia Albia has taken up her father's profession. Only, now Rome is a more dangerous, mercurial place than it was back in dear old dad's day . . .
Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother, she learned how to blend in at all levels... |
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A Death of No Importance
Mariah Fredericks - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A Death of No Importance has such rich historic detail that you feel as if you've been transported to early twentieth century New York. Mariah Fredericks is the best at creating compulsively addictive, fresh, twisty reads." -- Meg CabotJane Prescott has perfected the art of serving... |
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The Widows of Malabar Hill
Sujata Massey - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover
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1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award-winning Rei Shimura novels brings us an atmospheric... |
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Except the Dying
Maureen Jennings - McClelland & Stewart; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. The young victim was pregnant when she died. Was her death an attempt to cover up a scandal in one of the citys influential families? Detective William Murdoch quickly finds out that... |
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen
Laurie R. King - Picador/Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Paperback
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An Agatha Award Best Novel NomineeNamed One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers AssociationFrom New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book that introduced us to the ingenious Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries, The... |
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A Rising Man: A Novel
ABIR MUKHERJEE - Pegasus Books
Format: Paperback
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In the days of the Raj, a newly arrived Scotland Yard detective is confronted with the murder of a British official -- in his mouth a note warning the British to leave India, or else... Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately... |
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Girl waits with gun
Amy Stewart - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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Constance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mold. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters into hiding fifteen years ago. One day a belligerent and powerful silk factory... |
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Murder on Astor Place
Victoria Thompson - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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After a routine delivery, midwife Sarah Brandt visits her patient in a rooming house?and discovers that another boarder, a young girl, has been killed. At the request of Sergeant Frank Malloy, she searches the girl?s room, and discovers that the victim is from one of the most prominent... |
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