From the front flap: Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian* community is found dead on its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites. Working solo, without her long-time partner Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Sergeant Barbara Havers must probe not only the mind of a murderer and a case … [Read more...] about Deception on His Mind by Elizabeth George
Mystery
A Spy in the House by Y. S. Lee
From the back cover: Mary Quinn leads a remarkable life. At twelve, an orphan and convicted thief, she was miraculously rescued from the gallows. Now, at seventeen, she has a new and astonishing chance to work undercover for the Agency. It is May 1858, and a foul-smelling heat wave paralyzed London. Mary enters a rich merchant's household to solve the mystery of his lost … [Read more...] about A Spy in the House by Y. S. Lee
In the Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George
Book description: When a young girl disappears from the streets of London without a trace, her mother, a well-respected MP, is convinced she knows the identity of the kidnapper—the child's father. But Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers soon learn that nothing in this investigation is what it appears to be, and that in betrayal and deception, lies … [Read more...] about In the Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George
Witch Way to Murder by Shirley Damsgaard: C
From the back cover: Ophelia Jensen wishes she was just your typical, thirty-something librarian. Unfortunately, she's been burdened with psychic powers—an unwanted "gift" she considers inconvenient at best and at worst downright dangerous. Her kindly old grandmother Abby, however, has no compunctions about the paranormal, being a practicing witch with unique abilities of her … [Read more...] about Witch Way to Murder by Shirley Damsgaard: C
Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George: A-
Book description: When country milkman Martin Snell makes his usual delivery to fifteenth-century Celandine Cottage one fine spring morning in Kent, he expects to be greeted by the cottage's seductive tenant, Gabriella Patten, not the ugly remains of a fire pointing to murder. As all of England, as well as the magnetic world of national cricket, discovers itself reeling from … [Read more...] about Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George: A-