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In 525 Constantinople nothing is as it should be.

It’s Christmas in Posadas County.

Who killed the mosaic girl?

She stared into the speckled mirror, wondering how she had come to this.

When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions.

As The Angel Gang begins, thoughtful, capable ex-private detective Tom Hickey is married to the delicate Wendy, whose unworldly innocence and faith in her “angels” provides her with a stronger shie

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.