Melisende's Library

Synopsis:  In the birth of a new French Republic, a man must risk his honor, his marriage and even his life in a battle between his ideals a...

Synopsis: Arthur Conan Doyle provided few details on Holmes' boyhood. His ancestors were country squires, his grandmother was the siste...

Synopsis: A gripping, immersive historical murder mystery in which a wayward boy from London's East End is pulled into the hunt for a s...

Synopsis: After Professor Moriarty survives Reichenbach Falls and Sherlock Holmes dies, Moriarty finds himself caught up in a locked-room m...

Synopsis: Clara Shortridge Foltz faces a patriarchal nemesis in 1884 San Francisco. When a white prostitute is murdered and flayed down to ...

Synopsis: From his offices at Basinghall Street in the City of London, Henry Slater presided over Britain's best-known private detectiv...

Synopsis: 1846. In the heat of West Africa, the French navy uncovers the corpses of two French soldiers. Inspector Maurice Leroux arrives a...

Synopsis: Japan, 1869. A time of reform and rebellion.A classic Japanese mystery – a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders...

Synopsis: It is spring in Baker Street, and London is preparing itself for the wedding of the season - an international spectacular in whic...

Sysnopsis: He took on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, and he lost. Now he wants revenge.In 1888, Sherlock Holmes slayed the spectral hound ...

Synopsis: Set in the extravagant, Bohemian art world of early 20th century Vienna, the electrifying untold story of the four women who pose...

A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish...

Synopsis: Victorian England's most celebrated lady detective returns in ten new brain-teasing mysteries.With scheming fraudsters, corrup...

Sysnopsis: Belfast, 1914. Two years after the sinking of the Titanic, high society has become obsessed with spiritualism in the form of sea...

Synopsis: May 1898: Sherlock Holmes investigates a murder stolen from a writer’s research. Abigail Moone presents an unusual problem at Bak...

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was writte...

Synopsis: One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ...

Queen Victoria’s reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. Not...

If you have not already invested in this series, I suggest that you do so in order to catch up with all things Arrowood before the release o...

Sysnopsis: From two acclaimed experts in the genre, a brand-new volume of supernatural stories showcasing the forgotten female horror write...