In Anne M. Kennedy’s The Baku Inheritance, book one in The City of Winds series, in 1890, Anton Nikolayevich Sabroski arrives in Baku with tanker plans that could open a new route through the Suez Canal. He learns that his father has died, and the...

In Judith Kendall’s The Tangled Web, railway payroll officer James McConnolly leaves Adelaide in December 1912 carrying the Christmas wages for the South Australian Railways, but never reaches his first delivery stop. His disappearance leaves his wife, Lizbeth, to rebuild her life in New Zealand...

Confucius said, “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves,” which is a sentiment one character does not consider in The Reckoning by Ann Nolder Heinz. It opens in 1873 with a mysterious man standing outside a quiet residence, wrestling with a...

A passenger on the Victoriana, a luxury ocean liner travelling between England and America in the late 1920s, is missing. In The Silent Film Star Murders by Melodie Campbell, the main characters, Lady Lucy Revelstoke and her maid and companion, Elfreda, start asking questions about...

I wasn't totally sure what I was getting into when I picked up The Romanov Episode by Clive Radford, but I’m glad I did. It’s one of those books where you realize pretty quickly that you're holding something special. It isn't just another mystery; it’s...

In The Beast Prince by Alix Nichols, readers are introduced to Elise, a quiet, outdoorsy glassblower in Chambéry, who walks into a dark hotel room with the intention of repaying a family debt, only to discover the person she thought would be there isn’t. Cue...

The Killer’s Remorse by Jimmy Ray Conner is a historical mystery set in 1960s San Francisco. The story follows homicide detective Holly Webb, who is the city’s first woman to be assigned to the division. Along with her partner, Grant Parker, she’s launching a cold...

The Tin Merchant’s Riddle by Steve Reinhart combines historical intrigue, religious exploration, and mystery into a compelling narrative. Set against England’s rich historical backdrop, the story follows detectives, scholars, and religious figures as they pursue a potentially world-changing manuscript: the Gospel of Joseph of Arimathea....

The Hidden Cipher by Rich Petrelli introduces The Templars Legacy Trilogy. This is a book that fans of Dan Brown will adore. The premise is compelling: a Templar codex, dating back centuries, contains secrets buried in the vaults in the Vatican that can change history...

In The Alpine Fortress by Rowena Kinread, Ivanna Petrenko discovers a mysterious map while sorting through her late grandparents’ belongings. Ivanna’s grandfather, once a prisoner of war who worked in a salt mine in Austria’s Salzkammergut region, may have known where the Nazis hid stolen...