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Autumn, 1940: A black woman named Louise Blanc is found tortured to death in her Gentilly home.

In January 532, mobs ruled Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire.

Ruth Harris, Sherriff Ike Schwartz’s fiancée, is involved in a near fatal automobile accident. But Ike is convinced the crash was rigged.

When Newbury Connecticut's 300-year-old village cemetery is invaded by a gaudy, half-million dollar mausoleum, Ben Abbott is not happy.

A young woman is found strangled in Mingo House, a morbid brownstone museum in Boston’s Back Bay. Strangely, she was dressed in Victorian finery as if for high tea.

Tito Amato returns from an operatic tour expecting to relax with his family.

Alan Saxon flies to Honololu to act as best man at the wedding of a close friend, Donald Dukelow, an American golfer who has always beaten Saxon is play-offs.

When plague strikes London, Lord Westfield’s Men count themselves fortunate they’ve been invited to perform as part of the wedding celebrations for Sophia Magdalena, the fair maid of Bohemia.

It's certainly not the usual assignment... Ferrying fighter planes, undercover work-that’s more like it.

The third English language case for Mexico City independent detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, No Happy Ending, is Paco Ignacio Taibo II at his subversive, darkly comic best.

It is late summer in the year 1270 and England is as weary as its aging king, Henry III. Although the Simon de Montfort rebellion is over, the smell of death still hangs like smoke over the land.

In 1904 Edna Ferber is a 19-year-old girl reporter for the Appleton, Wisconsin Crescent, an occupation that many townspeople, including her own family, consider scandalous for a proper young girl.

Cincinnati homicide Detective Will Borders now walks with a cane and lives alone with constant discomfort. He’s lucky to be alive.

Corinna Chapman, talented baker and reluctant investigator, is trying very hard to do nothing at all on her holidays.

Warren Howe is surprised by a hooded visitor while working in a garden in Old Sawrey, a lovely village in England’s Lake District. Soon it is Warren who is dead—murdered with his own scythe.