Robin Blake, Author Ivan R. Dee Publisher $30 (447p) ISBN 978-1-56663-282-9
Famous for his so-called ""swagger portraits"" of 17th-century European noblemen, Van Dyck (1599-1641) is most often seen as a courtier interested only in flattering the rich and famous of the baroque era. For the artist's quadricentennial last year,
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Robin Blake. Minotaur, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-00672-1
British author Blake (Fat Man’s Shadow) makes his mystery debut with an impressive whodunit, set in Lancashire and introducing coroner Titus Cragg and Dr. Luke Fidelis. On the morning of March 18, 1740, Cragg receives word that Dolores Brockletower,
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Robin Blake. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-00673-8
A contested election in 1741 Preston, England, propels Blake’s particularly clever second historical featuring the investigative team of coroner Titus Cragg and Dr. Luke Fidelis (after 2012’s A Dark Anatomy). The drowning death of Antony Egan, an...
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Robin Blake. Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-05494-4
Set in 1742, British author Blake’s superior third whodunit featuring Dr. Luke Fidelis and coroner Titus Cragg (after 2013’s Dark Waters) centers on an impossible crime. When Philip Pimbo—a merchant and goldsmith in Preston, England, who has...
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Robin Blake. Minotaur, $25.99 (352) ISBN 978-1-250-10096-2
In Blake’s richly imagined fourth 18th-century historical set in Preston, England (after 2015’s The Hidden Man), a dead newborn turns up in a tanner’s noxious “skin yard.” Titus Cragg, the redoubtable coroner, won’t cease trying to find out whether...
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Robin Blake. Severn, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8851-8
In Blake’s outstanding fifth 18th-century whodunit featuring coroner Titus Cragg and Dr. Luke Fidelis (after 2016’s Skin and Bone), army veteran Harry Hawk and brothers Simon and Charlie Stirk decide that Anne Gargrave must be punished for being a...
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Robin Blake. Severn, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8920-1
In Blake’s so-so sixth mystery featuring coroner Titus Cragg and physician Luke Fidelis (after 2019’s Rough Music), it’s 1745 and rumors are flying that Charles Stuart has landed in Scotland, leading an army that will support his claim to the...
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Robin Blake. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9070-2
Set in 1746 Lancashire, Blake’s gripping seventh mystery featuring coroner Titus Cragg and physician Luke Fidelis (after 2020’s Death and the Chevalier) finds Cragg answering farmer Richard Giggleswick’s plea for an inquest into “the death of a...
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Robin Blake. Severn, $29.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9071-9
Set in 1747, Blake’s superior eighth mystery featuring coroner Titus Cragg and physician Luke Fidelis (after 2021’s Secret Mischief) finds Cragg summoned to a gruesome crime scene near Warrington, England. At a farmhouse, Betty Kidd and her four...
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