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 #: 00024
The Perp: Summer, Holly
The Crime: The Wicked West
Classification: Historical Erotica (novella)
The Weapons: Widows, sheriffs, erotic flagellation, submission and some moderately rough sex.
The Victims:
Mrs. Lily Anders: the demure English widow who moves to Wyoming because her recently deceased brother left her his home there. She really likes to be punished and she really [...]
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The Weapons: manky dreadfuls, katana swords, Brown Bess muskets, daggers, outdated social exigencies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: #00021
The Perp: London, Julia
The Crime: The Dangers of Deceiving a Discount
Classification: Historical Romance (Regency)
The Weapons: False identity, wild horses, blonde hair
The Victims:
Phoebe Fairchild / Madame Dupree: the artistic, dreamy Fairchild girl, (and allegedly the prettiest) who is forced to take a job (gasp!) in order to avoid scandal. She is a talented dressmaker, [...]
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 #: 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 #: 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 [...]
Case File #: 00011
The Perp: James, Eloisa
The Crime: When the Duke Returns (Book 4 of James’ Desperate Duchesses sextet)
Classification: Historical Romance (Georgian)
The Weapons: Arranged marriage by proxy (11 years ago!), a feisty Italian wife and travel minded absentee husband. Oh and virginity, a whole lotta virginity.
The Victims:
Isidore Del’Fino, Duchess of Cosway: she’s rich, she gorgeous [...]