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Blood Curse: The Springtime of Commissario Ricciardi

Maurizio de Giovanni · 343 pages

"Naples, 1931. In a working class apartment in the Sanita' neighborhood an elderly woman by the name of Carmela Calise has been beaten to death. When Ricciardi and Maione arrive at the scene they start asking the neighbors questions. No one wants to talk but slowly a few interesting facts slip out. Carmela Calise was moonlighting as a fortuneteller and moneylender. In her decrepit apartment she wo

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Hunting Shadows

Charles Todd

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The Nightingale Gallery

Paul Doherty · 256 pages

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The Truth of All Things

Kieran Shields · 404 pages

Investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1892 Portland, Maine, Deputy Marshal Archie Lean discovers that the victim was ritually executed as a witch, and enlists the help of a criminologist with whom he follows a trail to the spiritual societies of gothic New England.

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The Reckoning

Rennie Airth · 358 pages

On a quiet afternoon in 1947, retired bank manager Oswald Gibson is shot in the head while fishing. In Scotland, a respectable family doctor is killed in the same manner—and with the same gun. What is the connection? Scotland Yard’s Detective Inspector Billy Styles and local detective Vic Chivers are baffled until a letter from Gibson is discovered that might shed some light on the case—a letter

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The Order of the Furies

Niklas Natt och Dag · 400 pages

When his close friend, Anna, who is said to be in possession of a letter with the names of revolutionary conspirators, goes missing, Cardell must find her before the secret police, and as he and Winge fight for justice and life, they are caught between powerful enemies in 18th-century Stockholm.

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The Last Kashmiri Rose

Barbara Cleverly · 298 pages

"It is 1922, in Panikhat, located on the plains fifty miles from Calcutta. In March of each of the past five years the wife of a cavalry officer in the Bengal Greys has met with a violent and terrifying death. One died in a fire, another by a cobra bite, the third from a fall, and the fourth victim drowned. Of course, they all might have been accidents, while the death of Captain Somersham's prett

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A Vigil of Spies

Candace Robb · 360 pages

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Last Seen in Massilia

Steven Saylor · 289 pages

Analyse : Roman policier (énigme). Roman historique.

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An Old Betrayal

Charles Finch · 338 pages

Drawn back into his old profession, Charles Lenox, a Member of Parliament, investigates the murder of an innocuous country squire and discovers that this body is only the first step in a deadly plan to destroy England's monarchy. "In the seventh book of Finch's bestselling series of Victorian mysteries, a case of mistaken identity has Charles Lenox playing for his highest stakes yet: the safety o

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The Bellini Card

Jason Goodwin · 306 pages

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Sacrilege

S.J. Parris · 423 pages

Summer, 1584. Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster to Queen Elizabeth, has long suspected an undercurrent of Catholic resistance in the city that was once England's greatest centre of pilgrimage. He calls Giordano Bruno, his maverick secret agent, away from his post at the French Embassy to investigate. But when Bruno arrives in Canterbury, he has no idea of the dark secrets he's about to uncover. He

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Bundori

Laura Joh Rowland · 385 pages

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The Devil's Novice

Ellis Peters · 276 pages

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A Case of Life and Limb

Sally Smith · 320 pages

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Season of the Raven

Denise Domning · 285 pages

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Even the Dead

Benjamin Black · 287 pages

"Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is a brain tumor. A specialist diagnoses an old head injury caused by a savage beating; all that's needed, the doctor declares, is an extended rest. But Quirke, ever intent on finding his place among the living, is not about to retire. One night duri

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Edinburgh Twilight

Carole Lawrence · 444 pages

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Fever Season

Barbara Hambly · 416 pages

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Rest Not in Peace

Melvin R. Starr · 256 pages

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Critique of Criminal Reason

Michael Gregorio · 400 pages

A young magistrate works with his mentor, Immanuel Kant, to find a serial murder who is terrorizing the city of Königsberg.

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Rashomon Gate

I.J. Parker · 352 pages

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Beekeeping for Beginners

Laurie R. King · 34 pages

Sherlock Holmes is fending off a particularly dark mood as he roams the Sussex Downs, in search of wild bees. The Great War may be raging across the Channel, but on the Downs, the great detective nears terminal melancholia—only to be saved by an encounter with headstrong, yellow-haired young Mary Russell, who soon becomes the Master’s apprentice not only in beekeeping but in detection. Holmes

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