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2012 Selections

January 2012

Counterfeit Madam by Pat McIntosh

(Gil Cunningham Mystery, #8) Part of the Gil Cunningham series, medieval. Gil Cunningham had hoped that the first time he set foot in the brothel on the Drygate it would also be his last, but by the time all was settled he felt quite at home within its artfully painted chambers. The bawdy house, along with the neighboring property, is offered to Gil and his wife Alys by the forceful Dame Isabella. But matters are confused by an outbreak of counterfeit coins in Glasgow, which Gil has been ordered to investigate.

Then Dame Isabella is found dead in strange circumstances, and the more Gil pursues the cause of her death, the more false coins he finds. Rumors circulate that the Devil is abroad in Strathblane. By the time Gil and Alys have untangled matters, some very surprising—and sinister—things have come to light.

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Feburary 2012

The Holy Thief by William Ryan

(A.D. Korolev #1)

Capt. Alexei Dimitryevitch Korolev of the Moscow Militia's Criminal Investigation Division has come into a certain amount of professional success in 1936. He gets a new apartment, albeit shared with a young widow and her daughter. He has earned the respect of his fellow officers and his superiors for honest, thorough work. The brutal murder of a woman in a former church, followed by another, this time of a high-ranking Thief, a member of the Soviet Underworld, nearly undoes his success and his life. In the course of searching for the killer and a fabulous icon--things he pursues even after the NKVD has warned him off--he learns what it really means to live in the unpredictable panopticon of Stalin's USSR. Nominated for the Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award.

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