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Murder at the Dressmaker's Salon C.J. Archer · 2022 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate As fashion designer to London’s elite, she had an eye for detail and a flare for the dramatic. But there’s nothing stylish about her cold-blooded murder.   With the social season just around the corner, the women in Cleo’s family are having new outfits made by the most sought-after designer in the city. Madame Poitiers is bold, self-absorbed and not French, despite her claims.   When… Shares Mystery

The Abduction of Rosalind Thorne

The Abduction of Rosalind Thorne Darcie Wilde Brimming with intrigue, the latest novel in this charming Jane Austen-inspired mystery series finds resourceful Rosalind Thorne—a discreet sleuth for Regency London’s ladies of ton—facing her most perilous, and awkward, predicament yet… Rosalind is newly, happily engaged to ex-Bow Street officer Adam Harkness, but lunching with the new fiancée of her old love is still discomfiting. Yet, Clara… Shares Mystery

The Devil's Ransom

The Devil's Ransom Brad Taylor A New York Times Bestseller!In the latest explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor, Pike Logan races to stop an insidious attack orchestrated by a man who knows America’s most treasured secrets. Conducting a routine cover development trip to Tajikistan, Pike and Jennifer learn that Afghanistan has fallen, and there’s a man… Shares Mystery

Reckless With a Bonus Excerpt

Reckless With a Bonus Excerpt Andrew Gross · 2012 For a limited time and a special price, discover Reckless, the New York Times bestselling novel by Andrew Gross, plus the first three chapters from his next novel, 15 Seconds, a thrilling, fast-paced story of a man, on the run, desperate to prove his innocence and to save his family’s lives. 15 Seconds will be available wherever books are sold July 10th. Shares Mystery

A Killing at Smugglers Cove

A Killing at Smugglers Cove Michelle Salter An addictive cosy historical murder mystery, perfect for fans of Verity BrightWartime secrets, smugglers’ caves, skeletal remains... And the holiday’s only just begun…Summer, 1923. Reporter Iris Woodmore travels to sunny Devon with her friends Percy Baverstock and Millicent Nightingale for her father’s wedding to Katherine Keats.But when Millicent uncovers skeletal remains hidden on the private… Shares Mystery

The Sisterhood

The Sisterhood Tasha Alexander Shares Mystery with this book.

The Sinner

The Sinner C.J. Archer Elizabethan England: Lies, desperation and an offer she can't refuse send impoverished widow Lady Catherine (Cat) headlong into marriage with the man who killed her husband.   Guilt and desire battle within Hughe, Lord Oxley's, soul. When the enigmatic leader of the Assassin's Guild learns that the widow of one of his targets is at the mercy of a cruel man, he does the only thing left in his… Shares Mystery

Murder on the Brighton Express

Murder on the Brighton Express C.J. Archer Gossip, scandal and murder collide on the express train to London. Did the journalist fall from the first-class carriage, or was she pushed?   Cleo’s holiday with her family to the seaside resort town of Brighton is everything she hoped it would be…until she receives a blackmail note. The blackmailer demands Cleo help her or a story revealing Cleo’s investigating will appear in the… Shares Mystery

Murder is in the Air

Murder is in the Air Frances Brody · 2020 · ★ 4.5 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Frances Brody's twelfth Kate Shackleton mystery will positively intoxicate fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Nicola Upson.A competition for the crown proves deadly when confidences are betrayed and secrets are spilled.North Yorkshire, 1930. It's the season for warm and spirited countryside celebrations. Ever since the war, pubs have been in the doldrums, and in an attempt to promote and breathe new… Shares Mystery

The Egyptian Antiquities Murder

The Egyptian Antiquities Murder Sara Rosett · 2019 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Secrets never die . . . October, 1923. Lady detective Olive Belgrave has a new case. Lady Agnes doesn’t believe in curses—especially ancient curses—and she hires Olive to prove her uncle wasn’t the victim of a malevolent mummy. Olive investigates and discovers the truth is much worse—it’s murder. Can Olive debunk the curse and reveal the true culprit before the mummy curse claims another… Shares Mystery

Pirate King (with bonus short story Beekeeping for Beginners)

Pirate King (with bonus short story Beekeeping for Beginners) Laurie R. King NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An engaging romp guaranteed to please . . . perfectly written in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.”—USA Today   In England’s young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. But rumors of criminal activities swirl around his popular movie studio. At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell travels undercover to the set of… Shares Mystery

The Chapel of Bones

The Chapel of Bones Kate Ellis Shares Mystery with this book.

A Deceptive Composition

A Deceptive Composition Anna Lee Huber Lady Kiera Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, hope they’ve finally found peace after a tumultuous summer, but long-buried family secrets soon threaten to unravel their lives . . .October 1832. Kiera is enjoying the slower pace of the English countryside. She, Sebastian, and their infant daughter have accompanied her father-in-law, Lord Gage, home so that he can recuperate from the… Shares Mystery

Corridors of the Night

Corridors of the Night Anne Perry · 2015 Anne Perry, that incomparable novelist of life in Victorian England, has once again surpassed herself, with this twenty-first installment of her New York Times bestselling William Monk series. In Corridors of the Night, nurse Hester Monk and her husband, William, commander of the Thames River Police, do desperate battle with two obsessed scientists who in the name of healing have turned to… Shares Mystery

The Briar Club

The Briar Club Kate Quinn · 2024 · ★ 4.3 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of… Shares Mystery

Murder at Wakehurst

Murder at Wakehurst Alyssa Maxwell · 2021 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries… For fans of Rhys Bowen comes the new mystery from acclaimed author Alyssa Maxwell, as she takes readers to the turn of the century mansions of famed Newport, Rhode Island . . . where not all is always golden and murder turns a successful… Shares Mystery

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh Claudia Gray The third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facing their most daunting challenge yet: preventing the murder of the imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh.Someone is trying to kill Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Esteemed aunt of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, generous patroness of Mr. William Collins, a woman of rank who rules over the estate of Rosings Park… Shares Mystery

A Betrothed's Betrayal

A Betrothed's Betrayal Deb Marlowe Shares Mystery with this book.

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