If you find one, he’s already found you. A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen. His calling card is a “chestnut man”—a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts—which he leaves at each bloody crime scene. Examining the dolls, forensics makes a shocking discovery—a fingerprint belonging to a young girl, a government minister’s daughter who had […]
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Murder in the palaces of England gives sleuth Jane Bee, housemaid to Her Majesty the Queen, a puzzle to fit for a monarch in the second novel of this charmingly irresistible series. What is Death at Sandringham House about? Though this is the only book in the series that I’ve encountered, I imagine the Her […]
A man awakens in the woods and only remembers one thing: the name Anna. He hears a gunshot, a woman’s scream, and is sure that he has already lost this Anna before he found her. Desperate, and with only a broken compass to guide him, he arrives at the noble house of the Hardcastle family, […]
Private detective Daniel Wilson expects the resistance he faces from local law enforcement when he arrives in Cambridge to investigate the mysterious death of an unknown man in the Fitzwilliam. He does not, however, expect to encounter Miss Abigail Fenton. Abigail, for her part, has clawed her way up as a woman and an archaeologist. […]
Althea Bell has been on the road to recovery many times in her life. Her latest attempt at rehab will hopefully be her last, as she promised her father she’d get clean and come home to take care of him as Alzheimer’s looms over his head. Althea has finally conquered the honeysuckle girl, and illusion […]
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