Ruth Dudley Edwards
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
"In this always entertaining series, Hayes never fails to mix action and humor in an engaging manner."-Booklist
On a bleak Christmas morning, as she patrols a desolate canyon on the Arizona reservation, Sewa Tribal Police Officer Heather English stumbles upon the body of the newly-elected governor. A note explains his death is part of a drug war. His killer promises Heather will be among the victims.
That same morning, her Uncle Mad Dog, a Cheyenne...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"I should imagine this was murder, too, because it would be very difficult to build yourself into a heap of sandbags and then die…"
In the blackout conditions of a wintry London night, amateur sleuth Agnes Kinghof and a young air-raid warden have stumbled upon a corpse stowed in the walls of their street's bomb shelter. As the police begin their investigation, the night is interrupted once again when Agnes' upstairs neighbour, Mrs. Sibley is terrorised...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
The Great War has ended, and the army is keen to be demobbed. But Willoughby, the new British High Commissioner in Egypt, has managed to affront the Khedive by refusing to receive rival delegations fueled by rising nationalism. Then, when some Armenians, Copts, and English civil servants are attacked, a state of emergency is declared.
Gareth Cadwallader Owen is the Mamur Zapt, the Head of the Khedive's Secret Police. Unlike his British colleagues,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
548 CE, Constantinople. Emperor Justinian, distraught from the death of his wife, Empress Theodora, has exiled his longtime aide, John, the Lord Chamberlain. At the Church of the Holy Apostles, an Egyptian magician tries to raise the empress from the dead. As the unholy ceremony explodes into chaos, supposed demons vanish into the darkness with one of the city's holiest relics. Felix, Captain of the Palace Guard, is selected as John's successor and...
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