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Showing posts with label Historical mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historical mystery. Show all posts
Friday, August 9, 2019

Who Slays the Wicked/ CS Harris/ 341 pgs

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This is book 14 in Harris' long-running series. Sebastian St. Cyr is a viscount and an amateur sleuth who helps out Bow Street every now...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

Murder on Union Square/ Victoria Thompson/ 326 pgs

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This is the 21st book in Thompson's Gaslight series and it's a solid entry. Sarah, a former midwife, is finally opening her matern...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Why Kill the Innocent/ CS Harris/ 335 pgs

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This is the 13th book in the Sebastian St. Cyr series. It's a historical mystery that takes place in London in 1814. This entry in the s...
Saturday, July 1, 2017

Where the Dead Lie/ C.S. Harris/ 338 pgs

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This is book number 12 in the Sebastian St. Cyr series, a historical mystery series set in England around the year 1813. Though the author d...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Murder in the Bowery/ Victoria Thompson / 295 pgs

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Murder in the Bowery is the 20th book in the Gaslight Mystery series. This series is set in very late 1890s New York City. The two main char...
Monday, January 9, 2017

Girl Waits With Gun / Amy Stewart / 408 pages

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   I like cozy mysteries and great writing and sometimes it is difficult to get both at the same time. In this novel you get both in spades....
Thursday, July 7, 2016

Murder in Time/ Julie McElwain/ 498 pages

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Murder in Time written by Julie McElwain was Overdrive's Big Read in July.  The books begins with a gruesome murder in a historical sett...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

House of Silk / Anthony Horowitz 294 p.

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Anthony Horowitz captures the essence of the Sherlock Holmes genre.  Dr. Watson is back with Sherlock Holmes at 221 B Baker Street while Ma...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Bury Your Dead/ Louise Penny/ 371 pages

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Bury Your Dead written by Louise Penny is the sixth book in the Inspector Gamache series.  The book opens with a crime in progress.  Somethi...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Mycroft Holmes / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 328 p. Celebrity Challenge

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Mycroft Holmes / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 328 p. We learn about the early life of Sherlock Holme's brother, Mycroft.  Mycroft is a Cambrid...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie / Alan Bradley / 416 pages / 8 discs

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     I do not know why I have put off listening to this series. I should be ashamed of myself. I guess it was because every publication crow...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Out of Time/ A Time Travel Mystery/ Monique Martin/ 294 pages

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Professor Simon Cross is interested in the occult.  He even teaches classes in the subject.  Elizabeth West is his assistant, drawn to him a...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Circle of Bones, Christine Kling, 526 pages

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Maggie Reilly is enjoying the Caribbean on her sail boat.  In a week she will be working on a new job in Dominica.  What a surprise when she...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Lord of the Silent / Elizabeth Peters 404 p.

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Amelia Peabody Emerson returns in this 15th book in the series.  Amelia and her family return to Cairo, Egypt to research in the archaeologi...
Monday, April 22, 2013

The Name of the Star/Maureen Johnson/372 pages

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Set in modern day London, Rory has just started classes at a boarding school in London. As she is settling in to a new routine, a series of ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Crocodile on the Sandbank / Elizabeth Peters 262 p.

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In 1884, after her father's death, spinster Amelia Peabody go to visit the place her father studied in depth--Egypt, its pyramids and ar...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Crooked Letter Crooked Letter / Tom Franklin / 272 pages

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Well, you might just want to think about this one for your next book discussion club. How did you learn to spell Mississippi? That's the...