In The Coronation, Boris Akunin’s seventh novel in the Erast Fandorin Mystery series, the Russian detective and his sidekick, Masa, investigate the kidnapping of a Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich’s four-year-old child at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II. Matters are only made worse when the family receives the ransom request—an enormous diamond from a royal…
A Murderous Marriage is the fourth novel in Alyssa Maxwell’s Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery Series. Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid, Eva Huntford, are preparing for a wedding, but when an unexpected death occurs, it turns out it may not be the happy occasion everyone had hoped for . . . A Murderous…
Inspired by the true story of Ohio’s first female sheriff, The Widows by Jess Montgomery is a powerful debut about two women’s search for justice as they take on the corruption at the heart of their community. The characters in Jess Montgomery’s debut novel, The Widows, wait for signs. The cry of a hawk wheeling in…
In the newest Kurland St. Mary mystery, Major Sir Robert Kurland and Lady Lucy Kurland discover that Bath is not beneficial to everyone’s health. Major Sir Robert Kurland was wounded during the Battle of Waterloo. In January 1822, his steady recuperation hits a major setback. While walking his dogs, he collapses, burning up with fever.…
Depending on where and when you’re reading this, you may or may not have watched The Bodyguard, which achieved record TV viewing figures when screened by the BBC in the UK this autumn. Its plot, about a troubled war veteran assigned to protect a controversial politician, kept audiences gripped every Sunday for six weeks. Yet…
In Blood is Blood, a bombing injures private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker, leaving it up to his soon-to-be-married junior partner Thomas Llewelyn to find the person trying to murder them both before it’s too late―in the newest mystery in Will Thomas’s beloved Thomas Llewlyn series. In 19th century London, Cyrus Barker and his associate Thomas…
The State Counsellor by Boris Akunin is the sixth Erast Fandorin historical mystery—the first new Fandorin novel available to an American audience in a decade—which tests the handsome diplomat/detective’s guile and integrity like no mystery before. This riveting, deeply intelligent and empathetic mystery novel—though set in the Tsarist Russia of the late 1800s—offers significant insight…
