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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 Queen's Accomplice

Susan Elia MacNeal · 430 pages

"This New York Times bestselling mystery series continues as American-born codebreaker extraordinaire, Maggie Hope, returns to England to continue her intelligence work during World War II. England, 1942. Great Britain and the U.S. have joined forces to fight the Nazis. In London, Maggie Hope takes on the biggest challenge of her career: finding a killer who models himself on Jack the Ripper--and

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The Ashes of Berlin

Luke McCallin

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Bundori

Laura Joh Rowland · 385 pages

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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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The Blood-Dimmed Tide

Rennie Airth

With the publication of the New York Times Notable Book River of Darkness, Rennie Airth established himself as a master of suspense. The Blood- Dimmed Tide, set in 1932, marks the return of the beloved Inspector John Madden, whose discovery of a young girl's mutilated corpse near his home in rural England brings him out of retirement despite his wife's misgivings. Soon he finds himself chasing a k

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Edinburgh Twilight

Carole Lawrence · 444 pages

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The London Blitz Murders

Max Allan Collins · 236 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 Language of the Dead

Stephen Kelly · 277 pages

As the shadow of World War II descends over Europe, Detective Inspector Thomas Lamb hunts for an elusive killer behind the veil of a seemingly charming English village. In a rural Hampshire village, things have remained fairly quiet despite the war. Then an elderly loner is brutally murdered, and the method of his killing bears the hallmarks of the traditional vanquishing of a witch. A young woma

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A Curtain Falls

Stefanie Pintoff · 403 pages

1906. When a chorus girl is found dead on a Broadway stage, dressed in the leading lady's costume, Mulvaney knows that news of a possible serial killer would be potentially disastrous to the burgeoning theater world.

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A Lonely Death

Charles Todd · 343 pages

It's 1920. Three men are dead, all garroted, all war veterans. When a piece of evidence, kept from the public, suggests a much stronger link between the victims and the unknown, it's up to World War I battered survivor, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge to find the killer.

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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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Mister Slaughter

Robert McCammon

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Child 44

Tom Rob Smith · 480 pages

A propulsive, relentless page-turner.A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted.A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience.CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read."There is no crime."Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its cit

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Last Seen in Massilia

Steven Saylor · 289 pages

Analyse : Roman policier (énigme). Roman historique.

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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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Special Assignments

Boris Akunin · 352 pages

In Special Assignments, Erast Fandorin, nineteenth-century Russia's suavest sleuth, faces two formidable new foes: One steals outrageous sums of money, the other takes lives. "The Jack of Spades" is a civilized swindler who has conned thousands of rubles from Moscow's residents--including Fandorin's own boss, Prince Dolgorukoi. To catch him, Fandorin and his new assistant, timid young policeman An

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Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol

Gyles Brandreth

In OSCAR WILDE AND THE MURDERS AT READING GAOL, the sixth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, Reading Gaol's most famous prisoner is pitted against a ruthless and fiendishly clever serial killer. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith. It is 1897, Dieppe. Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, novelist, ra

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Vienna Blood

Frank Tallis · 408 pages

A murder mystery of great intelligence' the TimesIn the grip of a Siberian winter in 1902, a serial killer in Vienna embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. Vicious mutilation, a penchant for arcane symbols, and a seemingly random choice of victim are his most distinctive peculiarities. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt summons a young disciple of Freud - his friend Dr. Max Liebermann - to a

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Goodnight Sweet Prince

David Dickinson · 320 pages

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Whom the Gods Love

Kate Ross · 391 pages

Alexander Falkland hasn’t an enemy in the world. Young, talented, and charming, he shines in every field he enters: law, architecture, the investment market. But one night his luck runs out with a vengeance. In the midst of one of his famous parties, he is found with his head smahed, a bloodstained poker beside him. No wonder the inscription on his grave reads: Whom the Gods Love Die Young. When

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A Rip Through Time

Kelley Armstrong · 352 pages

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