Frances Brody. Minotaur, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-62239-8
Amateur sleuth Kate Shackleton, whose usual avocation is searching for servicemen who went missing during the Great War, faces a tight deadline in Brody’s stately second English historical (after 2010’s A Medal for Murder). In 1922, at the behest of
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Frances Brody. Minotaur, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312622-40-4
Set in 1922 Yorkshire, Brody’s second Kate Shackleton mystery (after 2012’s Dying in the Wool) falls short of the standard set by such authors as Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Todd in creating early 20th-century female sleuths whom Harriet Vane...
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Frances Brody. Minotaur, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-03702-2
In the prologue of Brody’s engaging third Kate Shackleton mystery set in post-WWI England (after 2013’s A Medal for Murder), Harriet Armstrong and her younger brother, Austin, find the body of their stone mason father, Ethan, lying in a hut by the...
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Frances Brody. Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-03704-6
Set in England in 1923, Brody’s fabulous fourth Kate Shackleton mystery (after 2014’s Murder in the Afternoon) finds the savvy PI trying to help a distraught husband, Cyril Fitzpatrick, locate his wife, who has a habit of disappearing for days at a...
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Frances Brody. Minotaur, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-06740-1
Likable, well-drawn characters lift Brody’s agreeable if at times slow-moving fifth Kate Shackleton mystery (after 2015’s A Woman Unknown). James, a cousin of Kate’s employed at the India Office, rings her early one morning to ask her help in...
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Frances Brody. Minotaur, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-06739-5
In Brody’s charming sixth mystery set in 1920s England (after Murder on a Summer’s Day), private detective Kate Shackleton agrees to help Lady Coulton locate the daughter she gave up soon after birth while her husband—who’s not the child’s father—was
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Frances Brody. Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-09882-5
Set in 1926, Brody’s leisurely paced seventh Kate Shackleton mystery (after 2016’s Death of an Avid Reader) takes the private investigator and her teenage niece, Harriet, to the Yorkshire village of Langcliffe, where they stay at a cottage belonging
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Frances Brody. Minotaur, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-09885-6
In Brody’s tightly woven eighth mystery set in 1920s England (after A Death in the Dales), PI Kate Shackleton takes a holiday in the resort town of Whitby. There she visits the jeweler’s shop where she once accompanied Gerald, her husband who died...
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Frances Brody. Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-15479-8
Set in 1927, Brody’s intricate ninth Kate Shackleton mystery (after 2017’s Death at the Seaside) takes Leeds private investigator Kate, at the invitation of famous music hall chanteuse Selina Fellini, to Yorkshire’s Giggleswick School to view an...
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Frances Brody. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64385-160-0
When Scotland Yard hits a dead end in Brody’s intricate 11th Kate Shackleton mystery (after A Snapshot of Murder), private detective Kate takes over investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of an unidentified man discovered on a goods...
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Frances Brody. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (334p) ISBN 978-1-64385-466-3
Set in 1930, Brody’s plodding 12th Kate Shackleton mystery (after 2019’s The Body on the Train) takes private investigator Kate and her assistant, Jim Sykes, to the Yorkshire market town of Masham, where William Lofthouse, the owner of Barleycorn...
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Frances Brody. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-64385-760-2
In Brody’s deft 13th mystery featuring private inquiry agent Kate Shackleton (after 2020’s Murder Is in the Air), Ronnie Creswell—a maintenance worker at Yorkshire’s Salts Mill—urges Kate in a July 1930 letter to travel to the village of Saltaire so
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Frances Brody. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-64385-096-2
Set in 1928, Brody’s well-crafted 10th Kate Shackleton mystery (after 2018’s Death in the Stars) takes amateur sleuth Kate, a WWI widow, and other members of the Leeds Photographic Society to Haworth, Yorkshire, for the opening of the new Brontë...
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