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“The Philosopher’s Flight” by Tom Miller – Outsider of the Arcane Science

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Tom Miller has certainly made a good decision in giving authorship a chance after working as an emergency room doctor for many years, gifting us with the very special novel The Philosopher’s Flight.

In it, we follow Robert Weekes, a young practitioner of empirical philosophy, an arcane branch of science used to accomplish the unfathomable. After winning a scholarship to study in a famous all-women’s school, he begins struggling to find his place in the world and is soon faced with some real dangers stemming from a group of anti-philosophical radicals.

“The Girl from Berlin” by Ronald H. Balson – Two Deeds; One Villa

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Ronald H. Balson has started one of the more peculiar and interesting literary series with his Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart books, and in the fifth one titled The Girl from Berlin we once again follow our two heroes as they come to the aid of an old friend to settle a land dispute in Tuscany.

Little did they expect, the battle between old woman and corporation for the rights to a villa sends them down the former’s memory lane all the way back to Berlin 1918.

“Nighttown” by Timothy Hallinan – The Great Doll Heist

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Timothy Hallinan has made Junior Bender into a real staple of the satirical thriller genre, and in Nighttown he embarks on yet another ridiculous adventure which begins with him breaking his most important rule: never accept a job which pays more than it’s worth.

Hurting for cash as he is though, he accepts fifty thousand dollar mission to steal a doll from a deceased woman’s collection. Needless to say, he soon finds out he’s not the only one after whatever might be inside of it, and things start to get a bit too serious when an old friend of his ends up murdered.

“Innocent as Sin” by C. A. Asbrey – Prisoners of Snow

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C. A. Asbrey has introduced us in the first book of The Innocents Mystery Series to the eventful world of Abigail MacKay, Pinkerton Detective, and the leaders of a train-robbing Wild West gang she befriends.

In the second volume, titled Innocent as Sin, Abigail reunites by pure chance with Nat and Jake, the leaders of the gang, as they find themselves in a town which has been snowed in with a murderer hiding in the shadows. The three must work together and race against time to find the culprit before he claims any more victims.

“The Collector’s Apprentice” by B. A. Shapiro – An Ode to Obsession

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B. A. Shapiro has a talent for taking us on immersive trips throughout history, and with The Collector’s Apprentice she takes us to the unusual period between the two World Wars, more precisely, the summer of 1922.

We are introduced to nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens, a woman accused for her fiance’s theft of millions, now living in Paris under an assumed identity.

She knows she cannot spend her life in hiding, and thus sets out to prove her innocence, recover her father’s art collection, and get revenge on the man responsible for her predicament.