R.N. Morris. Severn/Crème de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-025-6
British author Morris (The Gentle Axe and three other historicals featuring policeman Porfiry Petrovich of Crime and Punishment fame) launches a new series with this superior whodunit set in 1914 before the start of WWI. Inspector Quinn, “an...
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R.N. Morris. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-78029-059-1
In Morris’s stellar third pre-WWI historical (after 2013’s The Mannequin House), Silas Quinn has managed to regain command of Scotland Yard’s Special Crimes Department, just in time to tackle his most bizarre case yet. Someone has broken into the...
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R.N. Morris. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8785-6
Set in England just before the outbreak of WWI, Morris’s convoluted fourth mystery featuring Det. Insp. Silas Quinn (after 2014’s The Dark Palace) presents Quinn and his Special Crimes Department team with a series of bizarre suicides. The first...
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R.N. Morris. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-038-6
Set in April 1914, Morris’s second Silas Quinn mystery improves on its standout predecessor, 2012’s Summon Up the Blood. Quinn, the head of an elite Scotland Yard unit, the Special Crimes Department, is in trouble because higher-ups are concerned...
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R.N. Morris. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8839-6
Morris (the Porfiry Petrovich and Silas Quinn series) stumbles in this so-so thriller, set in a near future in which humanity is threatened by a plague of psychopathic behavior. In Britain, psychopathy has become an increasingly widespread...
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R.N. Morris. Severn, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8885-3
Set in London shortly after the start of WWI, Morris’s superior fifth mystery featuring Scotland Yard’s Det. Chief Insp. Silas Quinn finds Quinn returned to duty after a harrowing undercover stint in 2018’s The Red Hand of Fury. To his dismay, his...
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R.N. Morris. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8955-3
On Dec. 19, 1914, Lady Emma discovers the body of her choirmaster husband, Sir Aidan Fonthill, the principal victim in Morris’s limp sixth mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. Silas Quinn (after 2019’s The White Feather Killer). Sir Aidan is “sitting...
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