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The Apothecary Rose

Candace Robb

One-eyed former archer, Owen Archer is sent by the Lord Chancellor of England to York to investigate the death of his young ward and there Owen becomes involved with a woman apothecary.  M F Rob

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

Laurie R. King

A chance meeting with an elderly beekeeper turns into a pivotal, personal transformation when fifteen-year-old Mary Russell discovers that the beekeeper is the reclusive Sherlock Holmes, who soon takes on the role of mentor and teacher. M F Kin; YA PB Kin; CD F Kin

Black Lotus

Laura Joh Rowland

In the Black Lotus Temple of 1691, Japan, someone kills three sect members. Veteran samurai-detective Sano Ichiro uncharacteristically blames a delinquent orphan girl found fleeing the scene. M F Row

Death of a Nationalist

Rebecca Pawel

The setting is 1939 Madrid, following the Spanish Civil War. Sergeant Tejado Alonzo y Leon of the Guardia Civil is determined to solve the murder of a comrade while at the same time, someone is hunting him. M F Paw

Demon of the Air

Simon Levack

Set in the Aztec Empire before the arrival of the Spanish, Aztec slave, Yaotl must discover the reasons why a would-be human sacrifice commits suicide. M F Lev

The Devil's Door

Sharan Newman

In medieval France, former novice and soon to be married, Catherine LeVendeur,          sets out to untangle the many puzzles involving the murder of a young countess     whose death bequeaths land to the convent.  M F New

The Janissary Tree

Jason Goodwin

In 1826 Turkey, in the last years of the Ottoman Empire, Yashim Togalu, an intelligence agent and eunuch is commanded by the sultan to solve a series of murders. M F Goo

The Last Kashmiri Rose

Barbara Cleverly

Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands uncovers a chilling story of revenge, hatred, and murder in 1920s India. M F Cle; PB F Cle

The Last Templar

Michael Jecks

Simon Puttock, the Bailiff of Lydford Castle in 1316, receives unlikely help from secretive knight Sir Baldwin Furnshill while investigating a cottage fire that the latter man concludes was murder.  Book Group Collection M F Jec

Maisie Dobbs

Jacqueline Winspear

When World War I nurse turned private investigator Maisie Dobbs gets her very first assignment, she reveals a deeper, darker web of secrets, which force her to revisit the horrors of the Great War and the love she left behind.      F Win; PB F Win

Mark of the Lion

Suzanne Arruda

It’s 1919 and Jade del Cameron has just finished military service in WWI and is off to colonial East Africa to fulfill the dying wish of a pilot.  There she meets the expat community and becomes embroiled in local politics and intrigue. M F Arr

Murder in the Place of Anubis

Lynda Robinson

When an extra body is found in the place where the embalmers work, King Tut asks Lord Meren to investigate. M F Rob

Roman Blood

Steven Saylor

In ancient Rome, Gordianus the Finder is hired by Cicero to gather evidence in the defense of a wealthy farmer who has been accused of patricide. M F Say

Silver Pigs

Lindsey Davis

Marcus Didius Falco, detective in first-century Rome, working undercover for Emperor Vespasian, follows the trail of smuggled silver back to Roman Britain's mines, a trail that leads back to his lady love's family. M F Dav; AudioTape F Dav

Some Danger Involved

Will Thomas

Thomas Llewelyn answers a job notice that advertises "some danger involved" and finds himself working for enquiry agent, Cyrus Barker, in the underbelly of Victorian London, as they try to solve the murder of a Jewish student.  Book Group Collection PB F Tho; M F Tho

The Strange Files of Fremont Jones

Dianne Day

When proper Bostonian and Wellesley graduate Fremont (nee Caroline) Jones buys a train ticket to San Francisco in 1905 to escape her stepmother's meddlesome matchmaking and embark on a career as an independent "type-writer," she become embroiled in a murderous intrigue. M F Day; PB F Day

A Test of Wills

Charles Todd

In 1919, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge remains haunted by World War I, where he was forced to have a soldier executed for refusing to fight.  When Rutledge is assigned to investigate a murder involving the military, his emotional war wounds flare. M F Tod; CD F Tod

The Winter Queen

Boris Akunin

Set in Czarist Russia, Erast Fandorin, a young police investigator with the Moscow police, looks into the suicide of a student in the middle of the Alexander Gardens.  All is not what it seems.  M F Aku

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