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A Daring Finale: Love, Mystery, and Feminist Fire in “An Unladylike Secret”

Amita Murray is an award-winning London-based writer who has also resided in India and California; a self-described cultural nomad who seasons her sizzling love stories and historical mystery romances with a heady blend of historical facts, steamy heat, spice and suspense. Jane Austen, the Grande Dame of Regency Fiction, likely…

Linda HitchcockJuly 7, 2025

Fiction

Thrilling International Mystery Perfectly Blends Sherlock Holmes and Kung Fu

Welcome back the dynamic duo, Judge Dee Ren Jie, a lecturer at the University of London, and his sidekick Lao She, a shy scholar, who are China’s version of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson! Brilliant minds, clever disguises and more martial arts moves and Kung Fu fighting than seen in…

Linda HitchcockMay 5, 2025

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AuthorBuzz Giveaway: Powerful Women-Led Historical Murder Mystery

Sorry, this promotion has ended. Read on for another great recommendation from AuthorBuzz! The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict (St. Martin's Press) Dear Reader, The Queens of Crime is in keeping with my earlier novels and yet, at the same time, something entirely new. It's an ode to strong…

AuthorBuzzFebruary 10, 2025

Fiction Recommended

Investigative Novel Questions Mysterious Death of da Vinci

“What the heck is going on in Leonardo’s message!” In a masterful work with particular appeal for amateur sleuths, historians and art aficionados, author D. Allen Henry has crafted a thoughtful novel, Killing Genius: The Mysterious Last Days of Leonardo da Vinci, based around the premise that Leonardo da Vinci’s…

Jim AlkonNovember 19, 2024

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Secret Document by Galileo Leads Professor and Countess on Adventure Through Italy

A veiled prophecy of scientist Galileo Galilei is discovered four centuries after his death, launching an American professor and an Italian countess on a perilous quest to solve its hidden clues in D. Allen Henry’s imaginative The Starry Message. In the fall of 1641, a sightless Galileo recognizes his impending…

Peggy KurkowskiApril 23, 2024

Thrillers

Search for Stolen Art Leads to Battle of the Bulge in This WWII-Era Mystery

James R. Benn returns with an action-packed addition to his best-selling WWII-based Billy Boyle mystery series with The Phantom Patrol. The Boston native ex-cop detective returns as investigator and crime solver assigned to “Uncle Ike’s” staff. His distant cousin is General Dwight David Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied…

Linda HitchcockOctober 10, 2024

Fiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Inside the Blaze: The Untold Story of the Windsor Tragedy

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews…

Blaine DesantisMarch 20, 2024

Fiction

Gripping Finale to Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs Mysteries, “The Comfort of Ghosts”

Jacqueline Winspear took great pains to forewarn her legion of fans that the Maisie Dobbs series would end with the recently published The Comfort of Ghosts. It initially set off alarm bells with many readers fearing the worst, but the good news is she did not kill off our beloved…

Linda HitchcockJune 26, 2024

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Adventurous, Defiant Female WWII Pilot Jets Off in John W. Warner IV’s “Lion, Tiger, Bear”

When he was young, John W. Warner IV often found his family rubbing elbows with the highest political and business figures at historically significant gatherings around the world. Such is life when you are the son of the recently deceased Sen. John W. Warner III (R-VA), former Secretary of the…

Sherri DaleySeptember 9, 2021

Fiction

Final Installment of Mystery Series Sends Amateur Sleuth Jane Austen on a Quest for Truth

Author Francine Stephanie Barron Mathews pens best-selling novels in contemporary settings as Francine Mathews and in historical fiction as Stephanie Barron, her middle and maiden names. Francine Mathews’ first novel, published 30 years ago, began with what developed into a series of six mysteries set in New England featuring police…

Linda HitchcockNovember 16, 2023

Fiction

Gripping Debut Tackles Crime, Culture, Colonization in 1914 Fiji

Nilima Rao leaves the reader wanting more! Her gripping, dramatic debut crime novel A Disappearance in Fiji (Soho Crime) will soon be available in a paperback edition and she is working on an eagerly anticipated sequel A Shipwreck in Fiji. The first book is set in 1914 forty years after…

Linda HitchcockJanuary 30, 2024

Listicles Thrillers

This Month’s Best Thrillers, Featuring Baldacci, Preston and Rod Serling

Jon LandMay 14, 2024

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Historical Mystery “Lake of Flowers” Delivers a Feast of Egyptian Intrigue

When it comes to certain eras in ancient history, tangible, irrefutable facts are few and far between. A lot of our knowledge about these people and their cultures comes from painstaking research paired with the educated guesswork of experts like N.L. Holmes, who writes in the historical notes that begin…

Chelsea CicconeAugust 18, 2021

Thrillers

Chinese Veteran Turns Detective in 1920s London

What do you get when you combine two multi-talented creative minds that collaborate on an imaginative new series? This clever one is probably the best homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic pairing of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. Elementary, my dear reader, it is the hottest must-read murder…

Linda HitchcockApril 29, 2024

Thrillers

WWII Spy Thriller Series Takes on Post-War Hollywood

David Downing can include former rock music critic among his formidable writing credits. He is a prolific English author, writing both fiction and non-fiction on a wide-range of topics including children’s books, biographies, soccer, military history and several stand-alone thrillers. During the 1990’s, using the pseudonym David Monnery, he published…

Linda HitchcockMarch 21, 2024

Fiction

Wronged Women Pulled Into World of Wealthy Antique Collector in Historical Mystery

After six years of waiting, will justice be served? Kate Quinn and Janie Chang are the masters of historical fiction, and they take us on another whirlwind journey in The Phoenix Crown. This time, it's set in San Francisco in 1906. We follow Gemma and Suling, two women of very…

Lydia LefevreFebruary 13, 2024

Historical Mystery

AuthorBuzz Giveaway: Powerful Women-Led Historical Murder Mystery

Investigative Novel Questions Mysterious Death of da Vinci

Secret Document by Galileo Leads Professor and Countess on Adventure Through Italy

Books & Looks Podcast: Inside the Blaze: The Untold Story of the Windsor Tragedy

Adventurous, Defiant Female WWII Pilot Jets Off in John W. Warner IV’s “Lion, Tiger, Bear”

This Month’s Best Thrillers, Featuring Baldacci, Preston and Rod Serling

Historical Mystery “Lake of Flowers” Delivers a Feast of Egyptian Intrigue

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