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A morbid taste for bones - Ellis Peters
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Murder in the twelfth century is no different from murder today. There is still a dead body, though this time with an arrow through the heart instead of a bullet.... -
A cold treachery - Charles Todd
Amazon.com ReviewIntegral to most crime tales is the unearthing of concealed and unfavorable facts about suspected malefactors. But the mother-son duo who write under the nom de pl... -
A Test of Wills - Charles Todd
Amazon.com ReviewHaving just returned from France after World War I with a medal of honor and serious shell shock, Inspector Ian Rutledge struggles to settle back into his duties a... -
A Pale Horse - Charles Todd
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. The exemplary 10th Inspector Ian Rutledge historical whodunit (after A False Mirror) offers tight plotting and rich characterization amid und.... -
A Fearsome Doubt - Charles Todd
From Publishers WeeklyThis brilliant and gripping whodunit may well be the best of Todd's six Rutledge novels (Watchers of Time, etc.). Featuring as its protagonist a Scotland Yard... -
A False Mirror - Charles Todd
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. The complex, evocative ninth installment in Todd's series set in post-WWI England (after 2006's Long Shadow) showcases the pseudonym... -
A Duty to the Dead - Charles Todd
SUMMARY: The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War, helping to deal with the many ... -
A Day and a Night and a Day_ A - Glen Duncan
Review“Grim, violent and paradoxically elegant.” (Kirkus Reviews )“Glen Duncan is one of the best English-language writers working today—smart and musical, funny and seriou... -
A Collection of Essays - George Orwell
Amazon.com ReviewImagine any of today's writers of "creative nonfiction" dispatching a rogue elephant before an audience of several thousand. Now, imagine the essay that would resu...