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The Inspector's Daughter by Alanna Knight (
SYKM), 1st in her Rose McQuinn historical mystery series set in Edinburgh, which is itself a spinoff from her Inspector Jeremy Faro series of Victorian murder mysteries set in Scotland. This originally came out from Constable in 2000.
Rose McQuinn returns to Edinburgh from the American wild west of 1895. Her baby has died while her husband Danny, working with Pinkerton’s Detective Agency in Arizona goes missing. She has little time to grieve before she unwittingly takes on a new career by agreeing to investigate the strange behaviour of the husband of her childhood friend Alice.. But what appears to be an adulterous affair suggests something much more sinister, the brutal and still unsolved murder of a servant girl. Whatever heartbreak lies in store, Rose must discover the truth. From her home in Solomon’s Tower on Arthur’s Seat, aided by a wild deerhound who befriends her, her fist investigation puts her own life in deadly danger.
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Royal Flush by Shelley Singer (
SYKM), 6th in her Jake Samson & Rosie Vicente series starring a Jewish ex-cop and his lesbian carpenter sidekick, originally out from Perseverance Press in 1998.
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The Emperor's Jade by Robert Mitchell. This is a newly-written treasure hunt adventure thriller involving an artifact from the Qin Dynasty. Mitchell has been previously published by Queensland-based small publisher Boolagong Press, and if you enjoyed the previous backlist freebies he offered, you might perhaps like to give this one a try.
For over two thousand years the secret hiding place of the jade dragon seal of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, has been just that - a secret. But the accidental destruction of a small ancient porcelain pillow reveals that secret, and leads the young Australian teacher and his Scottish friend away from their peaceful college at Nandaihe on the shore of the Bo Sea, drawing them up into the freezing bleakness of the jagged mountains of Huangshan, as they try to outwit and elude those who would steal their secret, the jade seal, and their lives.