Learning to get along with a conquering alien species isn't so hard -- is it?

Thomas Clarady, Francis Bacon's clerk, tackles a case on his own.When a beautiful young woman comes looking for Bacon's special services, Tom offers himself as a ready substitute. He needs the money and...

Professor Moriarty commits a small fraud to expose a larger one.A young stockbroker brings a dilemma to the Moriartys which can best be solved by a quiet substitution. Professor Moriarty will turn up...

What happens when the Internet service provider in a small town spies on his clients' cyber-lives and blackmails them for gifts and services?Murder; that's what happens.Penelope Trigg moves to Lost Hat,...

Nature photographer Penelope Trigg has landed the job of her dreams: documenting the transformation of over-grazed rangeland into an eco-dude ranch and spa, owned by her boyfriend Tyler Hawkins. Then...

London, 1588. Someone's turning Catholics into widows...... and masking the crimes under cover of Armada fever. Francis Bacon is charged with identifying the murderer by the Andromache Society, a widows'...

Thomas Clarady risks his life, his eternal soul — and his chastity!Tom is recruited to spy on a group of radical Puritans at Cambridge University with Francis Bacon as his spymaster -- his tutor in tradecraft...

Ix Cahum finds a way to tend her bees and keep her small world turning after Spaniards and plague sweep destruction across the Maya lands.

Jane Moone is hired to identify the witch who cursed a sheep. But her client, Kate Grazier, has already decided who did it -- Dorcas Whiting, the hedge witch who happens to be Jane's father's sweetheart....

It's May Day, a time of joyful song and dance. But Jane Moone is called at sunrise to view a sorrowful sight — Lucy Quirk, strangled in the maypole's tangled ribbons. Lucy came to Ayreford to re-unite...

Spring, 1593. A ballad is posted in the heart of London inciting violence. The Lord Mayor offers one hundred crowns for the name of the author. Thomas Clarady wants that money and drags Francis Bacon...

Secret trysts. Daring dalliances. And a body in the orchard.It's Midsummer, 1591, at Richmond Palace, and love is in the air. Gallant courtiers sport with great ladies while Tom and Trumpet bring their...

Professor and Mrs. Moriarty seek justice where the law can't — or won't — apply.In this series of lively stories, they assemble a band of misfits -- others who have been cast out or falsely accused --...

<b>"Either my theater is haunted or someone's trying to drive me into bankruptcy!"</b>Professor Moriarty's new client is the manager of a West End theater. He's three weeks away from opening...

Three award-winning historical mysteries in one convenient package!Francis Bacon reluctantly puts down his books to solve crimes in Elizabethan London, aided by Thomas Clarady, a privateer's son who will...

<b>It began as a harmless wager. Who could solve their case first?</b>Professor and Mrs. Moriarty have a few weeks to kill before their theater opens. Happily, two small cases drop in their...

Anthony Bacon returns after thirteen years in France to live in his brother's house at Gray's Inn. Though seldom strong enough to leave his rooms, his gouty legs never hinder his agile mind. He's built...

Welcome to Ayreford in 1591, where cats can talk and fairies are real. Jane Moone leaves her thriving practice as a cunning woman in London to return to Ayreford to care for her father Amias, who has...

Professor James Moriarty has but one desire left in his shattered life: to stop the man who ruined him from harming anyone else. Then he meets Angelina Gould and his world turns upside down. At the International...

Professor & Mrs. Moriarty tackle a case too ticklish for Sherlock Holmes to handle on his own... James and Angelina Moriarty are settling into their new marriage and their fashionable new home — or...

Someone's killing London's wittiest pamphleteers.It's 1589 and England is embroiled in a furious pamphlet war between an impudent Puritan calling himself Martin Marprelate and publishing's brightest wits....

Welcome to the imaginary worlds of award-winning author Anna Castle. This collection of short stories ranges through time and space from the Yucatán peninsula in the early years of the Spanish conquest...

The most corrupt court in Elizabethan England has turned deadly. Francis Bacon's clerk, Thomas Clarady, has finally passed the bar. Now it's time to sue for his livery in the Court of Wards. Alas, nothing...

Melody Mockingbird, investigator for the Austin Druidic Detective Agency, must solve the murder of a beloved jazz singer before all memory of both the woman and the crime are extinguished.

What does a maths-minded girl have to do to get a little peace and quiet?

All Francis Bacon wants is a book, but when he reaches his favorite bookshop, the printer drags him into a murder investigation.

Agnes Merrythought, laundress for Gray's Inn, has to cope with two perplexing problems in one busy morning.

A man lies in an empty house with a damaged face, wearing only a richly embroidered shirt. Francis Bacon and his law students must identify him from the shirt and use that single clue to find the killer.

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