Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve. In 1889, the whaler's daughter from Dundee - dubbed by the press "The Snow Queen" - sets out to become a scientist and explorer. She struggles to be taken...
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical
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Author:Penney, StefSummary: - Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
Mary Russell is used to dark secrets-her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond. And what of...
- Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:
Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal horserace honoring the late King Edward VII. Now it appears that Barrington has returned to England,...
- Author:Post, StephSummary:
When one tragedy after another strikes a carnival, it becomes clear that their newest performer is somehow at the center of it, and Ruby the snake charmer takes it upon herself to discover how.
- Author:Cotterill, ColinSummary:
A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders-and the ungodly motives behind them Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn...
- Author:Loewenstein, LaurieSummary:
When a rainmaker is bludgeoned to death during a colossal dust storm, small-town sheriff Temple Jennings shoulders yet another burden in the hard times of the 1930s Dust Bowl.
- Author:Collins, Max AllanSummary:
It's the early 1950's. Ju McCarthy is campaigning to rid America of the Red Menace. Nate Heller is doing legwork for the senator, though the Chicago detective is disheartened by McCarthy's witch-hunting tactics. He's...
- Author:Overholt, CuylerSummary:
New York City, 1907. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Americans believe that science, especially the medical sciences, will soon conquer all of mankind's ills. For a brief time medical schools open their doors to women,...
