A Shipboard Death and Distant Secrets in A Mersey Mariner
Explore Brian L. Porter’s A Mersey Mariner, where a death aboard the Alexandra Rose draws Andy Ross into a case with connections to the Amazon rainforest.
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A Wartime Trail in A Mersey Maiden
Brian L. Porter's A Mersey Maiden connects a cricketer's death with a German U-boat's disappearance, sending Andy Ross toward an international investigation.
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Liverpool’s Buried Connections in All Saints
Ross and Drake investigate a churchyard crime while a returning priest brings an orphanage history into the story.
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Mersey Beat and Buried Secrets in A Mersey Killing
A discovery in Liverpool’s docklands sends two detectives toward a story begun decades earlier.
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A Festive Murder Puzzle in A Merry Mersey Christmas
Join Andy Ross and Izzie Drake in Brian L. Porter’s A Merry Mersey Christmas, where a department store Santa’s death disrupts the holiday run-up.
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An Old Betrayal in Sing Like a Canary
Isobel Blackthorn's Sing Like a Canary takes retired police officer Marjorie Pierce to Lanzarote, where an old informant and unfinished business test her judgment.
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A Holiday Murder in The Ghost Of Villa Winter
Clarissa expects an adventurous excursion on Fuerteventura and finds a body instead.
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A Found Fortune in A Prison In The Sun
A writer seeking inspiration instead finds money and questions he cannot easily set aside.
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A New Home and an Old Mystery in Clarissa’s Warning
Explore Isobel Blackthorn’s Clarissa’s Warning, where a lottery win brings Claire Bennett to a Fuerteventura house surrounded by unsettling local beliefs.
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Survival and Corruption in A Matter of Latitude
Isobel Blackthorn's A Matter of Latitude follows an injured anti-corruption activist and his searching wife through a dangerous disappearance on Lanzarote.
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Family Memory and Murder in A Man’s Face
A remembered scar connects Marc Jordan’s childhood loss to a present-day search for a killer.
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War-Weariness and Romance in A Love Lost in Positano
Danny’s hoped-for escape becomes a love story complicated by Gaia’s disappearance.
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