Case File #: 00025
The Perp: Brown, Em
The Crime: Force My Hand
Classification: Historical Erotica (novella)
The Weapons: Escalating sexual encounters, gambling debts, and escalating sexual encounters.
The Victims:
Darcy Sherwood: Is accustomed to dominating in the bedroom, is in serious debt, and bears a familiar sounding grudge against a powerful family.
Radcliff Barrington: Is excited about the dominating, worried [...]
Case File #: 0023
The Crime: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Perp: Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Classification: (defies classification)
The Weapons: manky dreadfuls, katana swords, Brown Bess muskets, daggers, outdated social exigencies
The Victims: Jane Austen
The Accessories: hoards of British undead, aka “manky dreadfuls,” aka “unmentionables,” aka “the stricken”
Violations:
Mr. Darcy is rendered not unlovable but awkward by his [...]
Case File: 00020
The Perp: London, Julia
The Crime: The Perils of Pursuing a Prince
Classification: Historical Romance
The Weapons: Viking ruins, a mysterious white house , Welsh amulet, rumors, fish stews, and excessive cunnilingus.
The Victims:
Greer Fairchild: a young society woman, who, suddenly finding herself dependent on her evil stepfather, decides to find her long lost Welsh relatives in [...]
Case File #: 00020
The Perp: Miller, Linda Lael
The Crime: Pirates
Classification: Time-travel Romance? Contemporary/Historical Crossover? Pirate Romance? Take your pick.
The Weapons: Magic (names and elevators), cannons, islands, the Revolutionary War and books about the Revolutionary War.
The Victims:
Phoebe Turlow: the recent divorcee who follows the magic elevator to the man of her dreams. (Doesn’t ‘magic elevator’ sound [...]
Case File #: 00019
The Perp: James, Eloisa
The Crime: Desperate Duchesses (Book 1 of 6 in the Desperate Duchesses sextet)
Classification: Historical Romance (Georgian)
The Weapons: A Love triangle (or a engagement of convenience plus a man who knows what he wants), and a girl looking to get rid of something her fiance just happens to not [...]
Case File #: 00018
The Perp: Mitchell, Margaret
The Crime: Gone With the Wind
Classification: American Literature
The Weapons: Antebellum nostalgia, plucky women.
The Victims:
Scarlett O’Hara - Hampton -Booth - Butler - painfully selfish, driven woman who vows to see her childhood estate restored to its old glory after Union soldiers destroy it. She will not let her husbands, children, [...]
Case File #: 00017
The Perp: London, Julia
The Crime: The Hazards of Hunting a Duke
Classification: Historical Romance
The Weapons: Painfully proper ladies
The Victims:
Ava Fairchild - an innocent, blond beauty who is determined to marry well in order to save her sister and cousin from being married off carelessly by their evil stepfather.
Jared Broderick - a.k.a. Marquis of [...]
Case File #: 00016
The Perp: Sands, Lynsay
The Crime: Single White Vampire (Argeneau Book 3)
Classification: Vampire Romance
The Weapons: Introverted SWV meets extroverted SWF. Plus, there’s a convention.
The Victims:
Lucern Argenaeu: 600-year-old Mr. Isolation lives in Toronto and spends his evenings playing video games and writing vampire romance novels.
Kate C. Leever: Ms. Leever is Lucern’s new editor and [...]
Case File #: 00015
The Perp: Dahl, Victoria
The Crime: Talk Me Down
Classification: Contemporary Romance
The Weapons: Secrets, stalkers and quite guys who like sex. Plus lots of dirty jokes. I am totally sending this book to Agent Green.
The Victims:
Molly Jennings: the small town girl who left ten years ago for Denver, only to return in hopes of [...]
Case File #: 00013
The Perp: Dahl, Victoria
The Crime: A Rake’s Guide to Pleasure
Classification: Historical Romance
The Weapons: Sassiness, Nonchalance
The Victims: Emma Jensen, aka The Dowager Lady Denmore - a young, sassy virgin pretending to be her dead uncle’s widow so she can gamble with rich people, and take their money. She wants to win enough to [...]