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Sad Cypress

  Sad Cypress (1940) by Agatha Christie The story opens in court. Elinor Carlisle is on trial for her life--accused of poisoning one Mary G...

The Golden Box

 The Golden Box (1942) by Frances Crane Jean Holly (not yet Abbott) returns to her home town in Illinois to visit an ailing aunt. She hasn...

Cut to the Quick

  Cut to the Quick (1993) by Kate Ross Julian Kestrel--dandy, man about town. Devoted to the gaming tables and the latest Regency-era fashi...

The Ruby Raven

  The Ruby Raven (1999) ~Michael Dahl Finn (Finnegan) Zwake lives with his Uncle Stoppard because his parents (archeologists) went missing ...

Black Sun

  Black Sun (2020) by Rebecca Roanhorse An epic fantasy novel inspired by various pre-Colombian cultures in the Americas. Readers follow th...

Still Life with Murder--slightly spoilerish

  Still Life with Murder (2003) by P. B. Ryan Set in Boston, 1800s. The Hewitt family is one of the wealthy elite who have lost sons to the ...