This moody murder mystery set during an overnight train journey in 1950s South America "e;delights like strong coffee savored in a cosmopolitan cafe"e; (Publishers Weekly).
While on a visit to a country estate, a lady and her maid ';devise a clever plan to catch the killer' in this mystery set in post-WWI England (Kirkus).
A Victorian-era undertaker plans a funeral for an eccentric duke's pet raven-but the bird's death is soon followed by murder: "e;A most unusual heroine.
A living man is rescued from a coffin on its way to the cemetery-in a puzzling whodunit with an "e;interesting exploration of Victorian mourning practices"e; (Kirkus Reviews).
In this historical mystery series debut, when murder almost occurs at her doorstep, a young innkeeper in ancient Roman Britain must find who's responsible.
"e;Parker's deft evocation of a lost era in Western American history-the life of the mining boom town-and her complex characterization make Leaden Skies an absorbing read.
It is May of 1272, and Prioress Eleanor of Tyndale, recovering from a near-fatal winter fever, journeys to Amesbury Priory to visit her aunt in time for the Feast of Saint Melor.
The child Judas, illegitimate offspring of a Jewish woman and a Roman soldier, struggles to understand his mother's god, a god who allows terrible things to happen to him and his family.
Anne Cartier, a teacher of the deaf, accepts an offer to help a deaf child whose governess died in a fall down the stairs of the family's palatial mansion.
