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by Boris Akunin
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by Lene Kaaberbol
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsFrom the coauthor of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase, a "gripping plot" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and captivating historical thriller.
by Michael Gregorio
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsDark, intelligent, and vividly written, A Visible Darkness continues a masterful series of historical mysteries that portray a past torn between nationalism and humanism, superstition and science.
by Tom Rob Smith
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsFormer state security officer Leo Demidov is struggling to change as the Soviet Union changes around him. The two young girls he adopted have yet to forgive him for his part in the death of their parents, and they are not alone; now that the truth is out, Leo and his family are in grave danger from someone consumed by the dark legacy of Leo's past...
by Louis Bayard
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsVidocq. The name strikes terror in the Parisian underworld of 1818. As founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq has used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to capture some of Frances most notorious and elusive criminals. Now he is hot on the trail of a tantalizing mysterythe fate of the young dauphin ...
by R. N. Morris
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsFollowing in the footsteps of the highly acclaimed novel The Gentle Axe, featuring the detective Porfiry Petrovich in another atmospheric and gripping slice of nineteenth-century Russia
by James Fleming
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsAn epic novel of Russia on the eve of revolution.
by Jacqueline Winspear
Published Jun 2006
Read ReviewsIn the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death
by Laurie R. King
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsA brilliant blend of traditional (Sherlock)Holmesian myth, startling originality, complex plotting, and unforgettable characters set against a fully realized early-twentieth-century world.
by Caleb Carr
Published Jan 2002
Read ReviewsThe year is 2023 and Wolfe's life and everything he knows are turned upside down when the widow of a murdered special-effects wizard enters his office. Killing Time combines future history with mystery and thriller elements to create a suspenseful novel.
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