The Wunderkammer of Lady Charlotte Guest

Literature & Fiction

Obey, Erica

World Literature

Lehigh Univ Pr

When Laura Converse goes to Woodstock to ghost-write a memoir for a name-dropping psychic, she never expects to be mistaken for a long-vanished singer. But she quickly finds herself trying to convince everyone in this New Age Mecca that she has not been sent by supernatural forces in order to solve a twenty-five-year-old murder. And that is hardly likely to prove more difficult than convincing herself that she's not about to fall for a distractingly attractive gardener, who just might be a warlock -- or a murderer. ...Back to the Garden is a tantalizing off-beat mystery, in which Romancing the Stone meets the Woodstock Nation -- with a touch of Wicca spicing the brew.

Back to the Garden (Five Star Mystery Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Five Star

This book examines the life of Lady Charlotte Guest Schreiber, who provided the first complete translation of the Mabinogion and ran her late husband's ironmongery. This book examines how collecting porcelain, playing cards, and fans allowed her to create a series of private signifying systems that countered the prevailing Victorian discourse assigned to women.

Biographies & Memoirs

Lehigh University Press

Lord Hardcastle, a single man with a title and a slew of poor female relations, may be in need of a wife, but that doesn’t mean American heiress Libba Wadsworth is interested. Not with the mysterious, orchid hunter Will Ransome lurking about.
Rather than endure yet another awful Coming-out Season of boring balls and vacuous visits from suitors, Libba Wadsworth, in one of her more self-indulgent moments, contemplates the romantic thrill of throwing herself off Cora’s Leap to go down in history as yet another of the cursed Braddock Brides. She knows full well she won’t do it, but still ... the men she’s had to endure season after season certainly made a leap into the abyss appealing. Until one Lord Hardcastle comes to call and Will Ransome, claiming to be Hardcastle’s batman and an adventurous orchid hunter, shows up. But can she trust either of them? And, more importantly, are they really who they claim to be? 
The Curse of the Braddock Brides is the first in a series of historical romances inspired by the stately homes of the Hudson Valley.

The Curse of the Braddock Brides

United States

Walrus Publishing

Gavin Fellowes, a damaged WWI veteran turned cynical psychic investigator, arrives in Ker-Ys, a Utopian art colony in Woodstock, NY, to investigate a series of purported fairy kidnappings of Communist garment workers who have taken over the failed Overlook Mountain House above the village. He is rapidly confronted with the willful blind spots of the well-meaning artists and the burgeoning anti-Semitism of the Catskills. With the help of Kate Ames, an illustrator and dazzlepaint designer who once might have been kidnapped by the fairies herself, Gavin must dig beneath the myth and legend to uncover an all-too-real occult threat that looms over Europe in the aftermath of the Great War.

Dazzlepaint

Romance

Amphorae Publishing Group, LLC

A hi-flying tech investor vanishes from the middle of a lake in full view of a score of witnesses. Mary Watson, a university librarian and computer genius, has the pictures to prove it. It' s an impossible crime with only a pair of red swim trunks for a clue, but Mary thinks she can solve this mystery with the help of her Artificial Intelligence program " Doyle" who suggests the solution can be found in what is arguably the worst detective story ever written-- S.S. van Dine' s The Dragon Murder Case.With the university' s security chief and a local attorney dogging her heels, and with a mysterious operative appearing out of nowhere, Mary may be in over her head.

The Brooklyn North Murder: A Novel

When Professor Clare Malley, a medievalist teaching at a Catholic university in New York City, is asked to discover why sixteen-year-old Jonas Crosswell did not die in a drug-related shoot-out at a neighborhood church, the last thing she expects is a modern-day miracle. But how else to explain how the boy survived multiple gunshot wounds? Was it a miracle performed by the mysterious Father Enoch? Or did St. Lazarus himself intervene? And what does Jonas's experience have to do with Sean, the troubled heir to a pharmaceutical fortune who vanished after he was also―supposedly―miraculously cured? When Clare tries to discover whether there is a connection between Jonas and Sean, she uncovers an all-too-real, unholy conspiracy to use neighborhood drug dealers as unknowing guinea pigs. Sean may be the only one who can answer her questions―and the only one who can truly touch her heart.

The Lazarus Vector: A Novel

It is July of 1865, and, in Saratoga Springs, everyone wants to put the war behind them. Yet, Rose Adair cannot forget Lane Fallon, the Englishman she last saw dragged off to be hanged as a Confederate spy. When Fallon is pulled from Congress Spring, after apparently having killed a man over the same smuggled artifact that nearly killed her father two years ago, Rose is forced to confront the possibility that Fallon was an assassin hired by her cousin Preston, who is attempting to seize control of the family fortune. And when Rose's father suddenly dies, Preston is in a perfect position to finally get what he wants. So Rose plays along with Fallon's impulsive claim that they were secretly wed to discover whether her father's death was the result of an ancient curse or an all-too-real seditious conspiracy.Rose and Lane's search leads them to Sammy Nunn, the Irishman whom Lane had entrusted with the proof of the conspiracy, which began when Lane offered to sell Adair the bridle of Mananaan mac Lir, with its legendary power to raise a hero, in order to trace a network of smugglers of Irish antiquities. Instead Fallon was approached by a cabal of wealthy New Yorkers to engineer a Fenian atrocity that would allow New York City to be handed over to the Confederacy. But Sammy is intent on playing both sides against the middle, and when he is found dead, Preston blames Cole Washington, a former slave and jockey, claiming he is seeking revenge for his wife, who was killed by the Irish during the New York City draft riots. Suddenly, fresh riots threaten to erupt in Saratoga.Lane rescues Washington from lynching, and the two make a wild escape on horseback to John Morrissey, the real life bare-knuckles boxer and ex-convict who made Saratoga Springs the most famous resort in the world. Morrissey admits he killed the man found in the spring, who was sent by his wealthy partners to eliminate him. Having proof that many of these wealthy, powerful men were also involved in attempting to deliver New York City to the Confederacy gives Morrissey much-needed leverage over these men.Lane clinches this proof by setting himself up as bait in the Grandstand at Saratoga, where black people, even jockeys, are not allowed, forcing Preston to reveal himself and betray his co-conspirators. And a fevered vision and mumbled confession after Lane has been shot reveals his surprisingly heroic side, for he took the bridle of Mananaan mac Lir, with its mystical power of raising a hero, to Gettysburg, where he rallied the Irish Brigade for their impossibly valiant last stand on the battleground known as the Wheatfield. The story ends with an epilogue on the Wheatfield, where a black teamster picks up a bridle that was left behind. Is it the bridle of Mananaan mac Lir, now destined to raise a new hero to serve his people in their time of greatest need?

The Horseman's Word (1)

Encircle Publications, LLC

Move It or Lose It (Mysteries to Die For)

Harris, Ken

Buck, Craig Faustus

Rockwood, KM

Conway, Colin

Wolff, TG

Teja, Ed

Barra, Paul A.

Bartow, Karina

Brownman, Chuck

Mysteries To Die For

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