Genres : Historical

Lady Eliza Winter hates London. This is her third season in the city and she's still ringless and undesired. Rumors from her childhood scare off any eligible bachelors, so she is just trying to make it through her loveless summer with her only friend, Penelope to keep the future spinster company. When Penelope misses their weekly tea date with Eliza, Eliza never expects it's for such a sinister reason. Eliza discovers Penelope has disappeared from London and the police won't...

The motto of Blackwood University is carved in stone: Veritas vos liberabit. The truth will set you free.But when university archivist Dr. Isobel Reed begins to question the official story behind a student's tragic death, she discovers that some truths are meant to stay buried. Her search for answers pulls her deep into the library's forbidden collections, where a dark history of greed and corruption has been deliberately obscured.The institution will do anything to protect its secrets. As Isobel gets...

Fully revised 2nd edition - The Investigating Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Colloquium and donation of the third largest private collection of Sherlockiana in the world were supposed to produce a weekend of great publicity for tiny St. Benignus College in Erin, Ohio. But when theft and murder come to campus, college public relations director Jeff Cody finds himself knee-deep in Sherlockian suspects, besieged by an aggressive reporter he loves but no longer dates, and competing with his eccentric...

Before Molly Murphy crossed the Atlantic or even had an inkling that she might someday become a much sought after private investigator in New York City, young Molly lived in Ireland in a small cottage with her father, brothers and little else. While keeping herself and her home together, Molly receives a request from Lady Hartley—the lady of the country estate where Molly lives, and the family that employs Molly’s father and brothers. The Hartleys are hosting a ball at...

While seeking solace from a broken heart, Savannah Rose travels to the picturesque city of Savannah, Georgia, only to find herself trapped within the confines of romance, murder, and mystery. It is the 1940s, a war is being waged in Europe, and a serial killer stalks the streets of Savannah, targeting young women and terrorizing the city. When the killer sets his sights on Savannah Rose, she must fight to survive, and in an attempt to save her life, she...

None could go against the King and Queen of England, least of all Catrin ... not overtly, anyway.April 1284. As a newly widowed lady-in-waiting to the very pregnant Queen Eleanor of England, Catrin never expected to return to Wales again. She was definitely unprepared to be confronted with murder when she got there—or to find herself face-to-face with Rhys, the childhood friend she lost twenty years before. Rhys had never intended to return home either, but a lifetime of war...

Penrose and Pyke go together like fire and kerosene in this first-in-series Victorian era mystery.Trouble’s brewing in the Devil’s Half Acre. A death in an alleyway, a tragic accident in a factory, rumours of a murderer loose on the streets. It’s enough to give a genteel lady a fit of the vapours. Fortunately, Grace Penrose isn’t one to swoon at the sight of blood. All she wants is the chance to become the first female doctor in the colony. Instead,...

Secretive, mysterious, beautiful – and armed to the teeth. How can she be in danger? In a deserted mansion with a secret passage, Mademoiselle is searching. But for what? Gerald wants to know. She will not tell him. She is determined to play her game alone and refuses to be rescued. Who is she? Why does she disguise herself as a nun? What is her connection to the émigré Valade? Can Gerald find out before Mademoiselle gets herself killed? Adventure,...

Would You Kill to Keep a Secret? Bob Anderson — local banker, city council member, and now murder victim — had the goods on a bunch of people in Plains City, Texas. Everybody wants those files; no one can find them.Katy Williams was hired to make the Plains City Gazette into a modern newspaper. She's got enough on her plate with the newspaper, a Texan boyfriend, and Texas in general. She's understaffed, overworked and just grateful to get the newspaper...

When Sir Law stumbles over a dead body, he and Cormac the minstrel join forces in their first mystery together!Scotland, 1424. Returned from war wounded and with nothing to his name, Law is thrust into a mire of treachery and lies when he takes a job to find a nobleman's runaway wife. He is none too sure that a minstrel can help, but Cormac is hard to turn down. Soon, they discover nothing and no one are what they seem...