for her family, working out at the gym, and finding new ways to keep her house spotlessly clean. Truth is, she's an expert at calling for take-out, she grumbles about walking the dog, and the dust bunnies under the bed have grown into dust lions. Action, adventure, mystery, and humor are the things Mulhern loves when she's reading. She loves them even more when she's writing!
Her new novel is Murder in Manhattan.
At CrimeReads Mulhern tagged eight favorite historical mystery novels that transport readers, including:
Catriona McPherson, After the Armistice BallRead about another entry on the list.
After the Armistice Ball by Catriona McPherson drops us into a chilly Scottish winter where the unhealed wounds left by the Great War still color every conversation. The sleuth, Dandy Gilver, is an aristocratic woman finding new purpose as a detective, and McPherson captures both the privilege and the suffocating expectations of Dandy’s class with equal precision.
Dandy doesn’t rail against the bars of her golden cage. Instead, she subversively slips through them. And we love her for it. The mystery itself is clever, but it’s the atmosphere—the tension between old certainties and new possibilities—that keeps readers hooked.
After the Armistice Ball is among Harini Nagendra's six top historical mysteries.
--Marshal Zeringue
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