Books written by Karen Odden

  • A Dangerous Duet: A Novel
    A Dangerous Duet: A Novel

    I quickened my pace along Hawley Mews, trotting past the Crown and Thorn, where jangling piano music and masculine laughter spilled out the open windows. At the corner, a prostitute called out from below the awning of the chandler's ...

  • Down a Dark River
    Down a Dark River

    Harry issued a series of questions, after which she spoke at length, gesturing all the while, though her hands trembled. He relayed her answers. “Her name is Madame Thérèse Bonavelle, and her husband's name is Édouard.

  • A Trace of Deceit: A Novel
    A Trace of Deceit: A Novel

    While a part of me was prepared for him to resume his erratic ways, his missive could have been lost, and it wasn't much out of my way to go to his rooms. I turned off Charing Cross and walked halfway down Judson Place to the building ...

  • A Lady in the Smoke: A Victorian Mystery
    A Lady in the Smoke: A Victorian Mystery

    The fish course was cleared; mutton with currant jelly arrived; and the topic changed to their upcoming trip to Edinburgh, and their visit to St. Giles's Cathedral, which they had postponed because of the accident.

  • Un duetto pericoloso: I Grandi Romanzi Storici Special
    Un duetto pericoloso: I Grandi Romanzi Storici Special

    Ed Nell è un pianista di spicco dell'Octavian Music Hall... ma nessuno immagina che le sue abili dita appartengano in realtà a una donna.

  • Down a Dark River
    Down a Dark River

    In the vein of C. S. Harris and Anne Perry, Karen Odden's mystery introduces Inspector Michael Corravan as he investigates a string of vicious murders that has rocked Victorian London's upper crust.

  • Under a Veiled Moon
    Under a Veiled Moon

    In the tradition of C. S. Harris and Anne Perry, a fatal disaster on the Thames and a roiling political conflict set the stage for Karen Odden’s second Inspector Corravan historical mystery.