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A Mary Russell Novel
by Laurie R. King
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
by Gyles Brandreth
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsLovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. Best of all, it casts British literature's most fascinating and controversial figure as the lead sleuth. (UK title: Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders). Published in the USA simultaneously in hardcover and paperback.
by Charles Todd
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsThe nineth Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, set in Post-World War I England. Rutledge is called on to prove the innocence of a man he dislikes and distrusts. But the deadly triangle also stirs up memories of the woman he himself loved and lost when he went to France to fight.
by Mitch Cullin
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsThis subtle and wise work is more than a re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes but a profound meditation on faultiness of memory and how, as we grow older, the way we see the world is inevitably altered.
by Boris Akunin
Published Feb 2005
Read ReviewsTipping his hat to Agatha Christie, Boris Akunins latest page-turner transports the reader back to the glamorous, dangerous past in a richly atmospheric tale of suspense on the high seas.
by Boris Akunin
Published Mar 2004
Read ReviewsIn this thrilling mystery that brings nineteenth-century Russia to vivid life, Akunin has created one of the most eagerly anticipated novels in years.
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsAn English boy born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when his mother and father both vanish under suspicious circumstances. Sent to live in England, he grows up to become a renowned detective and, 20 years later, returns to Shanghai, where the Sino-Japanese War is raging.
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