The Last Note of Warning by Katharine Schellman The third in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine Schellman, set in 1920s New York. Dead Tired by Kat Ailes MacmillanAudio · Dead Tired by Kat Ailes, audiobook excerpt The second in a charming and hilarious mystery series by Kat Ailes, Dead Tired follows…
Mallory Atkinson used to be a homicide detective here in the 21st century. Accidentally traveling back through time to Victorian Edinburgh was, to say the least, completely unexpected. She doesn’t know what kind of magic or scientific anomaly allows her to inhabit the body of housemaid Catriona Mitchell, but she’s slowly gotten comfortable living in…
There’s no two ways about it: Claire is a serial killer. She tries to keep her victim list confined to those she deems worthy of killing, but when worthiness generally correlates to how much her victim has personally annoyed her, it’s not hard to see that she’s not being at all altruistic with her murders. …
I am a sucker for a good postmodernist novel, and Scarlett Thomas’ The Sleepwalkers is just that best sort of brain candy for readers like myself. I should have known from the Contents page alone that this was going to be a book that dropkicked to the curb the well-worn tropes of privileged tourists uncovering…
Nest of Vipers by Harini Nagendra The latest novel in the award-winning Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murthy involved in a dangerous plot that endangers the life of the visiting Prince of Wales. Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong MacmillanAudio · Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong, audiobook excerpt Disturbing the Dead is…
Newlywed Meddy Chan is looking forward to jetting straight from her European honeymoon with her beloved husband Nathan to her family’s hometown in Jakarta. She’s excited to introduce him to her motherland, accompanied, of course, by her own mother and her mother’s three sisters, collectively known as The Aunties. Nathan has been so amazing about…
After the traumatic events chronicled in Margot Douaihy’s debut novel Scorched Grace, our heroine Sister Holiday is settling back into her life as the youngest servant with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood in New Orleans. Only six months away from taking permanent vows, she and Sister Honor – the only other nun in her…
An Inconvenient Wife by Karen E. Olson This astonishing crime novel—inspired by the Tudor era—takes the reader into the world of Kate Parker, who has just married billionaire Hank Tudor when a headless body is discovered near their summer home… Nosy Neighbors by Freya Sampson Nothing brings neighbors together like someone else’s secrets… At Shelley…
Five years ago, beautiful, glamorous Lucy Chase was accused of murdering her best friend, Savvy Harper. There was never really any proof beyond circumstantial evidence – and definitely not enough to make a case strong enough to stand up in court – but the entire town of Plumpton, Texas, believed that she did it. With…
Ten years ago, Dani Poissant thought that she’d left her old art heist crew behind for good. Nowadays, she works as an itinerant con artist, traveling from town to town and finding easy marks, with a side of Robin Hood do-gooding along the way. Her only companion is her beloved dog Sunflower, also a stray…
