Book Recommendation: Death at King's Crossing by Rosanne Limoncelli
Death at King's Crossing (Scheduled publication date: July 21, 2026, Crooked Lane Books, Penguin Random House) is Four Queens of Crime Mystery novel by New York author Resanne Limoncelli. This is a good selection for your reading list. Click on the link to reach the website to learn more about the author and her books.
DCI Lilian Wyles is confronted by a troubling case, one that only the four queens of crime can help solve—even amidst the ongoing war efforts.
Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh are back in the follow-up novel to The Four Queens of Crime.
1941, London. When DCI Lilian Wyles finds a young woman murdered at King's Cross Station, she needs the help of someone she can trust, but Richard Davidson, her former Scotland Yard partner, has joined MI5 and is busy tracking black market routes outside of London, so for now, she is on her own.
After having met the four queens of crime during a murder investigation two years earlier, DCI Wyles has kept in touch. But Agatha, Dorothy, Margery, and Ngaio are all involved in the war effort and have problems of their own.
Agatha is volunteering at the University Hospital Pharmacy, where a dangerous anesthetic has been stolen. Dorothy has heard unsettling information from her connections at the BBC regarding members of the Royal Navy. Margery, who has been in the countryside helping families escape the city from the bombing, is worried about one of her charges whose older sister has gone missing. And Ngaio, who has relocated to New Zealand and is volunteering as an ambulance driver, has begun gathering secret intelligence from wounded soldiers and sailors that may put her in danger.
When the four queens contact DCI Wyles for help, the information they share makes the final pieces of the puzzle fall into place. DCI Wyles once again finds herself collaborating with her old partners in crime to solve the mystery and close the case in this thrilling sequel, perfect for fans of Nicola Upson and Anna Lee Huber. Goodreads
Rosanne Limoncelli, PhD is a writer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. Rosanne writes plays, screenplays, poetry, games, mysteries, thrillers, and science fiction. Her short fiction first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and her short films have screened in festivals around the world. Rosanne has been teaching story writing and filmmaking at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for more than three decades. Rosanne’s debut mystery novel is The Four Queens of Crime published by Crooked Lane Books at Penguin Random House. The series continues with DEATH AT KING’S CROSS (July 2026) and MURDER BY THE SEA (July 2027). Rosanne’s thriller series that takes place in 1979 NYC, begins with NINA’S SPIRAL (October 2026).
Rosanne is the Senior Director for Film Technologies at the Kanbar Institute and the Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she also teaches filmmaking, story writing and virtual production. She received her BFA from the Department of Film & TV at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and her MA and PhD in Teaching Reading, Writing, and Media from NYU’s Steinhardt School.
Rosanne Limoncelli was born in Middletown, Connecticut and has also lived in North Haven, Connecticut and Morristown, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, New York.
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