The Firebird's Feather by Marjorie Eccles is a short historical mystery featuring a young English woman in 1911, who is investigating her mother's murder (available December 1, 2014). The plot of The Firebird's Feather engages directly with events of the time period in which it’s set. Set in 1911 during the Imperial periods of both…
Gods of Gold by Chris Nickson is a historical mystery, first in a new police procedural series set in late Victorian-period Leeds, England and featuring Inspector Tom Harper (available December 1, 2014). Chris Nickson’s interest in Leeds and its history is plain: he has a new novel coming out in January 2015 that is set…
Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets, edited by David Thomas Moore, is a Holmesian anthology of short stories that takes the famous sleuth through time and space (available October 7, 2014). This new anthology contains fourteen stories rather than two hundred and twenty-one, but it provides more than enough variety for Holmesians. Following in the…
Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall is the first book in the Kate Kane: Paranormal Investigator romantic suspense noir series (available December 16, 2013). My name’s Kate Kane, and when an eight-hundred-year-old vampire prince came to me with a case, I should have told her no. But I’ve always been a sucker for a femme…
Death Comes to the Village by Catherine Lloyd is the debut of a Regency historical mystery series featuring rector's daughter Lucy Harrington and the wounded Major Robert Kurlan (available November 26, 2013). First in a new series of Regency-set mysteries, Death Comes to the Village by Catherine Lloyd offers a historical twist on cozies. After…
Blackstone and the Endgame by Sally Spencer is tenth in a historical police procedural series featuring Inspector Sam Blackstone (available October 1, 2013). Spencer is a pseudonym for Alan Rustage, who also writes under the pseudonym James García Woods. Set in London in 1916, during the First World War, the plot is set into motion…
A Study in Silks by Emma Jane Holloway is the debut mystery featuring the niece of Sherlock Holmes, Evelina Cooper, in a fantastic Victorian Era of ruthless steam barons, steampunk machinery, and sorcerers as the enemies of the crown (available September 24, 2013). A Study in Silks, a debut novel by Emma Jane Holloway, is…
The Red Queen Dies by Frankie Y. Bailey is the debut mystery featuring Detective Hannah McCabe—who works in an alternate near-future of Albany, New York in 2019—hunting a serial killer who seems connected to Alice in Wonderland (available September 10, 2013). Frankie Y. Bailey is the author of nonfiction about crime and detective novels as…
The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King is a return for former-Bureau Agent, now private investigator Harris Stuyvesant, who'll seek a missing young woman among the notorious and artistic in Jazz Age Paris (available September 10, 2013). Laurie R. King is best known for her long-running historical mystery series featuring detective Mary Russell and…
A Question of Honor by Charles Todd is the fifth mystery featuring nurse Bess Crawford, which interweaves murders that took place in 1908 with the present chaos of the First World War (available August 27, 2013). Heroine Bess Crawford was raised in India, the daughter of a British regimental officer. Bess was a young girl…
