FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Includes recipes, menus, drink concoctions and much charm, but a denouement so silly that it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. "
FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Thompson (Murder on Sisters' Row, 2011, etc.) once more weaves the class differences and casual bigotry of the period into a mystery with some neat twists."
An upper-class midwife and an Irish Catholic police detective continue their unlikely alliance in a seventh murder investigation.
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FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"Brandreth's fifth Oscar Wilde caper (Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders, 2011, etc.) floats on a cushion of bubbly banter and droll period references. The whole series is literary escapism of a high order, though with each episode the mystery seems to recede further in importance. "
FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"Kuhns' focus on a closed community allows her to keep her story from drowning in period detail while emphasizing both the limitations and the charms of the Shakers' vanished world."
The winner of the 2011 MWA/Minotaur First Crime Novel Competition takes an itinerant weaver searching for his son to an unexpectedly tangled mystery inside a Shaker community in 1796 Maine.
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FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"Once again, Groundwater, mixing mystery with outdoor adventure, comes up with an excursion that will please most comers."
A fishing tournament brings murder to the Arkansas River and distress to a novice river ranger.
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FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
The Belgian Congo of 1958, facing enormous social changes as colonial rule is nearing an end, is challenged by more intimate disruption.
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