Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (338p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0637-5
Gentill’s well-mannered first novel in a series set in Depression-era Australia introduces gentleman painter Rowland “Rowly” Sinclair, the somewhat emotionally reserved youngest son of a moneyed family. Rowly’s pursuit of his artistic path and...
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Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (334p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0683-2
Set in late 1932, Gentill’s lively second mystery featuring dashing Australian millionaire Rowland “Rowly” Sinclair (after A Few Right Thinking Men) takes place initially aboard the luxury cruise ship Aquitania, as it steams along toward Sydney....
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Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (332p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0687-0
Set in Australia in 1933, Gentill’s entertaining third mystery featuring portrait artist Rowland Sinclair (after 2016’s A Decline in Prophets) will appeal to fans of Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher. Soon after Rowland is recognized for his work with
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Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (276p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0916-1
Fans of postmodern fiction will enjoy this departure from Gentill’s 1930s series (Miles Off Course, etc.). It’s an exploration, as one character puts it, of “an author’s relationship with her protagonist, an examination of the tenuous line between...
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Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (390p) ISBN 978-1-464206-91-7
In Gentill’s less-than-successful fourth mystery featuring Australian artist Rowland Sinclair (after 2017’s Miles Off Course), Charles Hardy, a real-life Australian senator, asks for Rowland’s help in thwarting the rise of the New Guard, a group...
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Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (334p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0695-5
Set in 1933, Gentill’s entertaining fifth mystery featuring wealthy Australian artist Rowland Sinclair finds Rowland in London, ensconced in a penthouse suite at Claridge’s, after being left for dead by Nazi thugs in his previous outing, Paving the...
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Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (372p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0699-3
Australian author Gentill’s enjoyable sixth Rowland Sinclair mystery (after 2018’s Gentlemen Formerly Dressed) explores the early life of her amateur sleuth. When Rowland was 15, his father, Henry, died under mysterious circumstances. Now, in 1933—13
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Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $15.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0703-7
Set in 1934 Sydney, Australia, Gentill’s appealing seventh Rowland Sinclair mystery (after 2019’s A Murder Unmentioned) opens with artist Rowland showing off his 1927 Mercedes, which he’s going to drive in a charity race in aid of the Red Cross, to...
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Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $16.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1587-2
This thrilling excursion into metafiction from Australian author Gentill (Crossing the Lines) wittily examines the writing process itself. Australian mystery writer Winifred “Freddie” Kincaid has come to Boston after receiving a prestigious writers’
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Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $16.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-72828-518-4
Gentill (The Woman in the Library) nimbly balances the plausible with the outlandish in this sly thriller set in the publishing world. Theodosia “Theo” Benton has dropped out of law school in Australia to pursue her dream of becoming a novelist....
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J.C. Lane. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (338p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0633-7
Six teenagers play a high-stakes game of tag through Chicago in this engrossing standalone from the pseudonymous Lane (Leave Tomorrow Behind and five other Stella Crown mysteries as Judy Clemens). Unattractive socialite Brandy Inkrott loathes...
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Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $16.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1261-1
Early in Gentill’s thrilling eighth mystery set in 1930s Australia (after Give the Devil His Due), real-life Czech journalist Egon Kisch arrives by boat at the port of Fremantle for a speaking tour. Aristocratic artist Rowland Sinclair offers to fly
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Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $15.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1361-8
Set in 1935, Gentill’s rousing ninth Rowland Sinclair mystery (after 2020’s A Dangerous Language) takes Rowly, on his brother Wilfred’s instructions, to Shanghai for trade talks involving the family wool business. “Just listen and be pleasant. For...
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Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $15.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1490-5
Gentill’s witty, rip-roaring 10th mystery featuring Australian portrait painter Rowland Sinclair (after 2021’s Shanghai Secrets) takes Rowland to Boston, Mass., with his ever-faithful entourage. His flamboyant university friend, Daniel Cartwright,...
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