Taking place in times past, these mysteries are filled with details that transport you to a time (and often a place) that is not your own.
The railroad is coming west, all the way to Leadville and its rich Rocky Mountain mines, not to mention millionaires. And who is coming to celebrate the arrival of the Denver & Rio Grande but Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States and former commander of the Union armies. Like other residents in [...] Read More →
The Punjab in India, 1935. The sub-continent under the Raj. Fresh from his English boarding school, Jack Steele is a new recruit to the Indian Imperial Police and soon begins to acquire the attitudes of old India hands towards the people under their rule. Only a few months into his posting, Jack has to conduct [...] Read More →
Boy Judas Iscariot struggles to understand his mother’s god. Despairing, he becomes a survivor in the streets of the first century Roman empire. Later, determined to avenge the wrongs committed against his mother and sister, he returns to join the rebels led by Barabbas, only to be betrayed again. Broken, he is brought to the [...] Read More →
It is May of 1272, and Prioress Eleanor, recovering from a near-fatal winter fever, returns to Amesbury Priory to visit her aunt in time for the Feast of Saint Melor. Although Eleanor hopes to regain her strength in the midst of pleasant childhood memories, Death reveals a most troublesome fondness for her company, thwarting her [...] Read More →
The summer of 1880: although possible investment in Leadville’s silver mines is a main reason that former president and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant is now touring this city at the top of the Rockies, others in his retinue and in town are enticed by other visions. As part owner of the Silver Queen [...] Read More →
A sinister Episcopal Bishop shows up to confirm Lottie and Josie Albright’s niece at the new frame church built on the corners of four Western Kansas counties. The twins are already agitated over his scathing sermon when the Reverend Mary Farnsworth flees to the anti-room after dropping the chalice during communion. Josie, a psychologist, lingers [...] Read More →
Women Airforce Service Pilot and undercover agent, Pucci Lewis, did not want to go to jail. But how else could she unmask Grace Buchanan-Dineen, an imprisoned countess-counter agent suspected of triple dealing and possibly putting our country’s future at risk? Dineen, a real-life figure, led a German spy ring that operated in Detroit during WWII. [...] Read More →
Owning and operating a horse ranch in Mesilla Valley, New Mexico was one thing Matty Summerhayes never expected to be doing when she was a student at the Bartholomew’s Ladies Academy. But since she owns the ranch, she has two goals, to build up the ranch, sell it, go back east, and keep her past [...] Read More →
Writer Edna Ferber arrives on the set of Giant to find herself in the middle of a murder investigation. Is James Dean the killer?
