Bøker av Susanna Calkins

The Fate of a Flapper, the second mystery in this captivating new series, takes readers into the dark, dangerous, and glittering underworld of a 1920's Chicago speakeasy.A 2019 Agatha Award Nominee for "Best Historical Mystery"!After nine months as a cigarette girl at the Third Door, one of Chicago's premier moonshine parlors, Gina Ricci feels like she's finally getting into the swing of things. The year is 1929, the Chicago Cubs are almost in the World Series, neighborhood gangs are all-powerful, and though Prohibition is the law of the land, the Third Door can't serve the cocktails fast enough.Two women in particular are throwing drinks back with abandon while chatting up a couple of bankers, and Gina can't help but notice the levels of inebriation and the tension at their table. When the group stumbles out in the early morning, she tries to put them out of her head. But once at home that night, Gina's sleep is interrupted when her cousin Nancy, a police officer, calls-she's found a body. Gina hurries over to photograph the crime scene, but stops short when she recognizes the body: it's one of the women from the night before.Could the Third Door have served the woman bad liquor? Or, Gina wonders, could this be murder? As the gangs and bombings draw ever closer, all of Chicago starts to feel like a warzone, and Gina is determined to find out if this death was an unlucky accident, or a casualty of combat.

London, 1667. Printer's apprentice Lucy Campion is horrified when Magistrate Hargrave is viciously attacked with a brass hourglass during a break-in. The puzzling case is just the start of a series of dark, bizarre crimes. Lucy's determined to get justice for her much-loved former master, but someone is determined to stop her - whatever it takes.

London, 1667. On her way to a new market to peddle her wares, printer's apprentice Lucy Campion is knocked off her feet by two men in a hurry. When she reaches the desolate crossroads, she discovers why: there, dangling from the hanging tree, is the body of a man. Did he take his life? Lucy is determined to uncover the truth, whatever the danger .