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Wine of Violence

Priscilla Royal · 248 pages

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The Guilt of Innocents

Candace Robb · 352 pages

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The Angel of Death

Paul Doherty · 160 pages

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The Mark of a Murderer

Susanna Gregory · 480 pages

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The Crediton Killings

Michael Jecks · 320 pages

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Murder Most Holy

Paul Doherty, P. Harding · 256 pages

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Mistress of the Art of Death

Ariana Franklin · 408 pages

The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition."In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed

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The Chalice of Blood

Peter Tremayne · 376 pages

Investigating the murder of an eminent scholar who was robbed of mysterious manuscripts, Sister Fidelma and her companion, Brother Eadulf, are quickly targeted by the same killer in a case that is complicated by divisive personal problems. By the author of The Council of the Cursed.

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In a Gilded Cage

Rhys Bowen · 276 pages

Irish-born detective and Vasser graduate Molly Murphy is hired to find out the truth about her friend's missionary parents' deaths and her loss of inheritance. Another Vasser grad has a philandering husband to track. Set in early 20th-century New York City.

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Jane and the stillroom maid

Stephanie Barron · 277 pages

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The Demon's Parchment

Jeri Westerson · 320 pages

Former knight and nobleman Crispin Guest, now surviving as a detective in 14th century London, agrees to track down stolen parchments possibly connected with a series of brutal murders for a Jewish physician attending the Queen.

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A Place of Confinement

Anna Dean · 416 pages

Thwarting her sister-in-law's efforts to marry her off to a decidedly unwanted suitor, the sharp-witted Miss Dido Kent is sent to live with a wealthy hypochondriac aunt and investigates the disappearance of a visiting heiress.

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The Unquiet Bones

Melvin R. Starr · 254 pages

Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, he feels no real calling—despite his lively faith—and he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris, and then hanging his sign in Oxford. Soon after, a local lord asks Hugh de Singleton to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the

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Murder in Murray Hill

Victoria Thompson · 296 pages

"When facing injustice, the residents of nineteenth-century New York City's tenements turn to midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to protect their rights. Now, as the Edgar and Agatha Award-nominated series continues, the two must track down a cruel criminal preying on the hopes and dreams of innocent women A Gaslight Mystery Frank Malloy has never known any life other than th

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Crocodile on the Sandbank

Elizabeth Peters · 280 pages

Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.

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Enemies at Home

Lindsey Davis · 347 pages

In Ancient Rome, the number of slaves was far greater than that of free citizens. As a result, often the people Romans feared most were the "enemies at home," the slaves under their own roofs. Because of this, Roman law decreed that if the head of a household was murdered at home, and the culprit wasn't quickly discovered, his slaves, all of them, guilty or not, were presumed responsible and were

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The Hangman's Daughter

Oliver Potzsch · 435 pages

Germany, 1659: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau. When more children disappear and an orphan boy is fo

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The Cater Street Hangman

Anne Perry · 287 pages

While the Ellison girls are out paying calls and drinking tea like proper Victorian ladies, a maid in their own household is strangled to death. Quiet, young Inspector Thomas Pitt finds no one above suspicion -- and his investigation at the staid Ellison home causes many a composed facade to crumble into far-from-elegant panic.

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Urn Burial

Kerry Greenwood · 280 pages

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Saint Milburga's Bones

Jason Vail · 229 pages

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The Witch Hunter

Bernard Knight · 370 pages

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Treachery

S.J. Parris · 540 pages

Summer, 1585: As English ships are held captive in Spain, fear mounts of an Invincible Armada, built by King Philip II, and intended to invade English shores. Sir Francis Drake prepares to embark on an expedition by royal commission to cross the Atlantic and seize major Spanish ports, diverting Philip's American treasure supplies to Queen Elizabeth. Giordano Bruno, radical philosopher and spy, acc

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Season of the Raven

Denise Domning · 285 pages

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The Bohemian Murders

Dianne Day · 251 pages

Forced to leave San Francisco after the devastating earthquake of 1906, Fremont (nee Caroline) Jones follows her heart to the bohemian beach community of Carmel-by-the-Sea. She is eager to be reunited with her elusive suitor, retired spymaster Michael Archer, but finds him mysteriously metamorphosed into Misha--otherwise occupied and decidedly unavailable for sleuthing. But the irrepressible Fre

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