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Death at the Boston Tea Party
Deryn Lake
A new business opportunity in America leads to a case of cold-blooded murder for Apothecary John Rawlings
1773. Apothecary John Rawlings arrives in Boston, Massachusetts, to pursue a new business venture. He finds the place riven with tension and unrest - and the seething resentment spills into outright rebellion during the notorious Boston Tea Party. But has someone taken advantage of the chaos to commit an act of cold-blooded murder?
Renting Silence
Mary Miley
Can 1920's script girl Jessie do Mary Pickford's bidding and uncover a real killer?
Jessie is asked by Hollywood actress Mary Pickford if she can do some private investigating. A girl was found stabbed in her bedroom with her housemate lying unconscious next to her, a bloody knife in her hand. Jessie must hone her amateur detective skills and travel through twenties Hollywood to prove the girls innocence before she hangs.
Murder in Disguise
Mary Miley
1920s script girl Jessie Beckett investigates the murder of a movie projectionist in this absorbing historical mystery.
A projectionist is shot dead and his grieving widow asks Jessie if she can find out who killed him, but who shot Joe Petrovitch? And how did the murderer leave the movie theatre without being seen? Jessie must go into the dead man's past and uncover dark secrets from another continent and another era...
Losing Nicola
Susan Moody
A compelling tale of childhood trauma and sinister discoveries.
Alice and her brother Orlando lived a quiet life growing up in post WWII Britain; that is until the arrival of the precocious, manipulative and sexually aware Nicola. But on Alice's 12th birthday, Nicola disappears, only to be found days later, battered, bruised and dead. Twenty years go by until Alice becomes determined to dig up the past and solve the mystery of Nicola's death. But will the truth be too much to handle when she starts to suspect her own quiet and bookish brother Orlando?
Summon Up The Blood
R. N. Morris
First in a brand-new historical mystery series featuring decidedly unconventional turn of the century sleuth, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn.
London, 1914. A killer is at liberty in the dark alleys of the city. The cadavers of his victims all have one thing in common: there is no blood in their bodies. As the killer's reign of terror continues, Scotland Yard's Detective Inspector Silas Quinn finds his suspicions focusing on the members of an exclusive gentleman's club . . . Atmospheric and macabre, Summon Up the Blood takes the reader on a disturbing yet fascinating journey through London's aristocratic watering holes, seedy brothels and shadowy underworld in the turbulent months leading up to World War I.
The Mannequin House
R. N. Morris
In this intriguing historical mystery, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn investigates one of the strangest cases of his career . . .
London, 1914. Called out to investigate the murder of a fashion model employed by the House of Blackley, a prestigious Kensington department store, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn of Scotland Yard's Special Crimes Department is thrown into the bizarre: the chief murder suspect is a monkey. He may be sceptical, but how will Quinn ever get to the truth when faced with the maelstrom of seething jealousy, resentment, forbidden desires and thwarted passion that is the Mannequin House?
The Dark Palace
R. N. Morris
Detective Inspector Silas Quinn discovers the dark side to the fledgling motion picture industry in this gripping historical mystery.
April, 1914. The premiere of notorious Austrian director Konrad Waechter's new film is interrupted by the screams of a woman in the street outside. She has been viciously mutilated in a horrific act of violence which eerily echoes a macabre act of violence in Waechter's film. DI Silas Quinn and his team investigate.
The Red Hand of Fury
R. N. Morris
June, 1914. Following three, seemingly unrelated suicides, DI Silas Quinn knows he must uncover the link between the three men if he is to discover what caused them to take their own lives. The one clue is a card each victim was carrying, depicting a crudely-drawn red hand. To find out what it means, Quinn must revisit his own dark past.
The Death of Pie
Tamar Myers
A quirky new mystery - with recipes - in the long running Pennsylvania-Dutch series.
When bestselling novelist Ramat Sreym falls face-down dead into Magdalena Yoder's prize-winning apple pie during the village of Hernia's 110th Annual Festival of Pies, there is no shortage of suspects in the subsequent murder investigation. But who was enraged enough by the acid-penned writer to want to poison her? Magdalena determines to find out.
Death at the Wychbourne Follies
Amy Myers
Simmering tensions, buried memories and old scores are revived at Wychbourne Court when Lady Ansley's old theatre group reunite to perform the Wychbourne Follies.
