In 1946 Sydney, Billie Walker reopens her father's detective agency. Tracking down cheating husbands is ordinary work, but it leads her to dead bodies and postwar corruption, and all sorts of danger.
Sarah
A missing diamond! Mystery across two continents (and several languages)! A tour around all of the neatest attractions of Paris, with plenty of shenanigans and sleuthing along the way. This story has tons of fun, plenty of fascinating tidbits, and my new favorite girl detective. Julieta immediately feels like a classic children's lit star!
Caleb
Willowjean Parker runs away from the circus and ends up as a detective's assistant in 1940s New York.
Sarah
This has all the fun of film noir, but instead of black and white, this one's full color. Our femme fatale is a man who performs in drag at a speakeasy and our detective is his best friend who's determined to prove him innocent. It's got grit and snark and a full picture of the non-white, non-straight, non-male corners of 1930, and both the struggles they faced and the places where they could cut loose. I don't usually get to see myself in this genre. This is a welcome exception.
Shana
The Crossing Places: When bones are found near her house, forensic archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is called in to help the police. She becomes enmeshed in the search for two missing girls and continues to get entangled with police investigations throughout the series. This series has revitalized my reading life; I can't put them down.
April
A missing diamond! Mystery across two continents (and several languages)! A tour around all of the neatest attractions of Paris, with plenty of shenanigans and sleuthing along the way. This story has tons of fun, plenty of fascinating tidbits, and my new favorite girl detective. Julieta immediately feels like a classic children's lit star!
Caleb
As England puts itself back together after World War II, two friends open a marriage bureau -- which quickly becomes a detective agency as well.
Sarah
Meet Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger tangled in a web of conflicting loyalties--to his job, his wife, his family, his home. After personal allegiance puts Darren's job at risk, he finds himself caught up in a mystery that causes the racial fault lines in a small Texas town to erupt. Bluebird, Bluebird kicks off a series you won't want to miss!
Rebecca
Yeah it's a page-turner - finished it in one sitting. And like the best of this sort of crime thriller you get all sorts of, er, educational details on the the workings of various criminal enterprises…
Gary
A suburban housewife listens to true crime podcasts to pass the time--but what happens when she realizes she knows one of the victims? A quick and gripping read.
Rebecca
