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Mycroft and Sherlock : a novel
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes--now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at the War Office--has no interest in the killings; however, his brother Sherlock has developed a distasteful fascination for the macabre to the detriment of his studies, much to Mycroft's frustration. When a ship carrying cargo belonging to Mycroft's best friend Cyrus Douglas runs aground, Mycroft persuades Sherlock to serve as a tutor at the orphanage that Douglas runs as a charity, so that Douglas might travel to see what can be salvaged. Sherlock finds himself at home among the street urchins, and when a boy dies of a suspected drug overdose, he decides to investigate, following a trail of strange subterranean symbols to the squalid opium dens of the London docks. Meanwhile a meeting with a beautiful Chinese woman leads Mycroft to the very same mystery, one that forces him to examine the underbelly of the opium trade that is enriching his beloved Britain's coffers. As the stakes rise, the brothers find that they need one another's assistance and counsel. But a lifetime of keeping secrets from each other may have catastrophic consequences.
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A Rip Through Time
by Kelley Armstrong
While visiting her dying grandmother in Edinburgh, a homicide detective out on a jog is beaten unconscious and wakes up in the body of a housemaid, left for dead in the exact same spot in 1869.
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Wild Irish Rose
by Rhys Bowen
In 1907, after helping distribute clothing to those in need on Ellis Island, Molly discovers, through her policeman husband, that a murder occurred on the island that day and the suspect is the spitting image of her and feels strongly that fate wants her to clear this woman's name.
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Lady Takes the Case
by Eliza Casey
When an agricultural depression threatens her ancestral estate, Lady Cecelia Bates of 1912 England is aided by her curiously intelligent cat in identifying the culprit behind a poisoning death.
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The Daughters of Foxcote Manor
by Eve Chase
Moving to 1970 Foxcote Manor when their London home burns down, a woman and her children take in an abandoned baby girl who is forced to investigate a murder and her own origin story 40 years later.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
A murder in a small English village leads Hercule Poirot into a strange mystery involving a determined, curious spinster, the local doctor, and a wide range of suspects with possible motives and mysterious relationships.
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Death of a Showman
by Mariah Fredericks
Forced to spend time with an ex whose new Broadway production is being financed by her employer, lady's maid Jane Prescott teams up with tabloid reporter Michael Behan to uncover the truth about a producer's suspicious demise.
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Clark and Division
by Naomi Hirahara
Released from a Japanese internment camp in 1944, Aki Ito moves to Chicago to be with her sister, Rose, only to lose her in subway train accident on the event of their reunion, and vows to learn what really happened.
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What the Devil Knows
by C. S. Harris
Investigating the suspicious murder of a lead investigator, Sebastian St. Cyr uncovers clues that suggest that the wrong man was arrested for a serial murder case three years earlier.
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Things in Jars
by Jess Kidd
Woman detective Bridie Devine investigates the kidnapping of a nobleman's illegitimate daughter, whose reputed supernatural powers have captured the attention of sinister collectors in the underworld's curiosities trade.
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Lady in the Lake
by Laura Lippman
A divorced reporter in racially torn 1966 Baltimore triggers unanticipated consequences for vulnerable community members while investigating the murder of an African-American party girl.
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The Widows of Malabar Hill
by Sujata Massey
A debut entry in a new series by the Agatha Award-winning author of The Sleeping Dictionary introduces Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford graduate Perveen Mistry, as she investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict purdah seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for their inheritances.
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The Hollows
by Jess Montgomery
A sequel to The Widows finds newly elected sheriff Lily Ross investigating ghost sightings in Moonvale Hollow and the death of a mysterious woman who was killed while walking along a railroad shortcut beneath the Appalachians.
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Smoke and Ashes
by Abir Mukherjee
Recognizing ritualistic injuries on a murder victim from a memory compromised by his opium addiction, Captain Sam Wyndham, aided by sidekick Surrender-Not Banerjee, struggles to solve two mysteries while hiding his personal demons from the Calcutta police force.
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Tell Me No Lies
by Shelley Noble
A sequel to Ask Me No Questions finds the irrepressible Lady Dunbridge tackling Gilded Age Manhattan when the Plaza Hotel and Metropolitan Museum of Art are overshadowed by romance, scandal and murder.
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Murder at the Serpentine Bridge
by Andrea Penrose
When Wrexford discovers the body of an engineering genius, Charlotte must help him retrieve a top-secret weapon before it falls into the wrong hands, drawing them into a world of international intrigue where they must save their loved ones from harm and stop a war from being ignited.
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Die Around Sundown
by Mark Pryor
In German-occupied Paris of 1940, Henri Lefort has five days to solve a murder of a solider in the Louvre and during his investigation he encounters Pablo Picasso among a group of artist who know more than they will divulge.
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An Impossible Impostor
by Deanna Raybourn
London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian beau Stoker are summoned by Sir Hugo Montgomerie, head of Special Branch. He has a personal request on behalf of his goddaughter, Euphemia Hathaway. After years of traveling the world, her eldest brother, Jonathan, heir to Hathaway Hall, was believed to have been killed in the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa a few years before. But now a man matching Jonathan's description and carrying his possessions has arrived at Hathaway Hall with no memory of his identity or where he has been. Could this man truly be Jonathan, back from the dead? Or is he a devious impostor, determined to gain ownership over the family's most valuable possessions-a legendary parure of priceless Rajasthani jewels? It's a delicate situation, and Veronica is Sir Hugo's only hope. Veronica and Stoker agree to go to Hathaway Hall to covertly investigate the mysterious amnesiac. Veronica is soon shocked to find herself face-to-face with a ghost from her past. To help Sir Hugo discover the truth, she must open doors to her own history that she long believed to be shut for good.
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A House of Ghosts
by William Ryan
Hoping to catch enemy spies, intelligence agents Kate Cartwright and Captain Donovan attend a spiritualist gathering at the home of a weapons manufacturer on an island off the coast of Devon, England.
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Murder Under Her Skin
by Stephen Spotswood
When her friend is murdered, and her former mentor stands accused of the crime, Will Parker, a knife-thrower in Hart and Halloways Traveling Circus and Sideshow, searches for answers in a world of illusion where she puts everything on the line in search of the truth.
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Murder on Madison Square
by Victoria Thompson
Former policeman Frank Malloy is frustrated when a woman requests his private detective services to implicate her wealthy husband in adultery, the only legal grounds for divorce in New York State. Although Mrs. Bing seems genuinely distressed about her marriage and desperate to end it, she refuses to tell Frank the reason she absolutely must divorce her husband and admits she has no legal grounds. Frank explains he won't manufacture evidence for her and sends her on her way. The following week, Frank and his wife, Sarah, happen to be attending the first-ever auto show in Madison Square Garden. There they meet the woman's husband, Alvin Bing, who has invested in a company that produces one of the electric motorcars on display. A few days later, the newspapers report that millionaire Alvin Bing has been found dead, pinned beneath one of the wheels of his very own motorcar. But who was driving it? The obvious suspect is Mrs. Bing, but Frank and Sarah find that nothing is as it seems in their puzzling, dangerous search for truth.
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A Peculiar Combination
by Ashley Weaver
Set in England during World War II, this delightful mystery follows thief Electra McDonnell as she, caught red-handed, is forced to help a government official break into a safe and retrieve blueprints that will be critical to the British war effort before they fall into the wrong hands.
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Turn to Stone
by James W. Ziskin
Florence, Italy, August 1963. In Italy to accept a posthumous award for her late father's academic work, "girl reporter" Ellie Stone is invited to spend a weekend outside Florence with some of the scholars attending the symposium. A suspected rubella outbreak leaves the ten friends quarantined in the bucolic setting with little to do but tell stories to entertain themselves. Deciding to make the best of their confinement, the men and women spin tales, gorge themselves on fine Tuscan food and wine, and enjoy the delicious fruit of transient love. But the summer bacchanalia takes a menacing turn when the man who organized the symposium is fished out of the Arno. "Morto." As long-buried secrets rise to the surface, Ellie must figure out if one or more of her newfound friends is capable of murder.
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