That Darkness
By Lisa Black Summary: As a forensic investigator for the Cleveland Police Department, Maggie Gardiner has seen her share of Jane Does. The latest is…
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The Janissary Tree
By Jason Goodwin Summary: It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the Sultan announces sweeping changes,…
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…
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 –…