What The Dead Leave Behind
By Rosemary Simpson Summary: As the Great Blizzard of 1888 cripples the vast machinery that is New York City, heiress Prudence MacKenzie sits anxiously within…
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Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru
By Karen Lee Street Summary: Philadelphia, early 1844. As violent tensions escalate between ‘nativists’ and recent Irish immigrants, Edgar Allan Poe’s fears for the safety…
House of Silk
By Anthony Horowitz Summary: London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg…
Real Murders
By Charlaine Harris Summary: a series of killings patterned after celebrated murders is perpetrated on the small community of Lawrenceton, Ga. Twenty-eight-year-old Aurora (Roe) Teagarden,…
The Decagon House Murders
By Yukito Ayatsuji Summary: Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the…
City of the Lost
City of the Lost, by Kelly Armstrong Summary: Casey Duncan once killed a man and got away with it. But that’s not why she’s on…
City of Lost Girls
City of Lost Girls, by Declan Hughes Summary: There’s a killer on the loose. He kills the lost girls. And he always kills in threes…
The Lewis Man by Peter May
Summary of The Lewis Man: A perfectly preserved body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. The male Caucasian corpse –…
Death of a Much Traveled Woman
Summary: The Death of a Much-Travelled Woman gathers in one volume the exploits and mishaps of globe-trotting translator-sleuth Cassandra Reilly. Lesbian detective and translator Cassandra…
Playing With Fire, Peter Robinson
Playing With Fire, by Peter Robinson Summary: In the early hours of the morning, a man reports a fire on two old canal boats. One…