Charles O'Brien, Author . Severn $27.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6403-1
Set in 1788, O'Brien's well-written fifth historical (after 2005's Lethal Beauty
) takes Anne Cartier, a teacher of the deaf and an experienced amateur sleuth, and her husband, Paul de Saint-Martin, Provost of the Royal Highway Patrol...
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Charles O'Brien, Author . Severn $27.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6463-5
O'Brien's imperfect but entertaining sixth mystery set in revolutionary France (after 2006's Fatal Carnival
) finds sleuth Anne Cartier, wife of Col. Paul de Saint-Martin, tracking down a missing country girl in Paris. Anne uncovers a...
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Charles O'Brien, Author . Severn $27.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6607-3
Amateur sleuth Anne Cartier and her husband, Col. Paul de Saint-Martin, must discover the identity of the person who's been inciting riots that provoke the brutal assassination of two of Paris's highest functionaries—and the power...
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Charles O'Brien, Author . Severn $27.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6740-7
In O'Brien's exciting eighth Anne Cartier mystery (after 2008's Assassins' Rage
), Anne learns while visiting London in the fall of 1789 that her well-to-do deaf friend, Janice Parker, was almost killed by a large stone that fell
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Charles O'Brien, Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6898-5
At the outset of O'Brien's thin ninth Anne Cartier mystery set in revolutionary Paris (after 2009's Deadly Quarrel), an Irish priest, Father O'Fallon, asks Anne, a teacher who works with deaf students, to help a deaf woman he knows, Marthe Boyer, in
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Charles O’Brien. Kensington, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-8636-9
O’Brien shifts from pre-Revolutionary France (False Patriots and eight other Anne Cartier mysteries) to Gilded Age America with this capable first in a new series. In 1892 New York City, Jack Thompson shoots himself after losing the family money to...
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Charles O’Brien. Kensington, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-8638-3
In O’Brien’s sedate follow-up to 2013’s Death of a Robber Baron, Pamela Thompson looks into the disappearance of Ruth Colt, a young woman of mixed race whose aunt, Martha Colt, is housekeeper to the powerful Crawford family. Martha believes that...
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Charles O’Brien. Kensington, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-8646-8
O’Brien’s uneven third Gilded Age mystery (after 2014’s Death in Sarasota Springs) pits attorney Jeremiah Prescott and investigator Pamela Thompson against Tammany Hall, the political machine that once dominated Manhattan. In 1887, Tammany...
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Charles O'Brien, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (340p) ISBN 978-1-59058-010-3
If not quite up to the high standard set by O'Brien's first historical, Mute Witness
(2001),
this sequel offers fully realized characters, a complex plot and a surprise ending sure to satisfy. In the winter of 1787, Col. Paul de Saint-Marti
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Charles O'Brien, Author . Severn $28.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6104-7
Paris and Versailles in 1787 serve as the opulent backdrop for O'Brien's outstanding third historical (after Mute Witness
and Black Gold
). Anne Cartier, teacher of the deaf and wife of Col. Paul de Saint-Martin of the Royal Highway Patrol,
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Charles O'Brien, Author . Severn $28.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6184-9
O'Brien's fourth Anne Cartier mystery falls short of the high standard set by earlier books in the series (Mute Witness
, etc.), which explored issues of social justice and morality more deeply and offered more sympathetic supporting...
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Charles O'Brien, Author Poisoned Pen Press $23.95 (226p) ISBN 978-1-890208-62-2
The bar for historical mysteries has just been raised, thanks to this masterly debut novel. Set in late 18th-century London and France, this is the story of a young woman's search for the truth in a society where appearance is all. Sadler's Wells...
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