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A Scandal in Sensible Shoes cover

A Scandal in Sensible Shoes

A seaside bootmaker finds a celebrated philanthropist's shoes beside the wrong body. Everyone trusts the gentleman's impeccable reputation, but she knows the repairs, the customer's peculiar gait, and the expensive difference between being respectable and being believed.

Historical mystery
The King Is a Decoy cover

The King Is a Decoy

A royal double learns every king for three centuries has been a decoy.

Epic fantasy
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The Reunion Has a Spare Suspect

A school reunion organizer finds an extra name on a memorial list: a woman sitting alive at the dinner table. Untangling the mistake exposes a crime the class has agreed to remember as kindness.

Psychological thriller
The Dinner Guest Who Died Last Year cover

The Dinner Guest Who Died Last Year

In 1924, a portrait painter recognizes a dinner guest whose death she helped document. When another guest is killed, she must separate an invented identity from a very real history of blackmail.

Historical mystery