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“Stop dreaming about the spires. It was a dreadful place and those were dreadful people, and you and I got caught in their games and paid for it.”

Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles

January 18, 2025 by narfna 2 Comments

If you read The Secret History and hated the characters, and the bleak ending made you feel terrible, this might be the book for you! In her first non-romance, we’ve got K.J. Charles trying her hand (and succeeding) at a historical mystery, dark academia style. It’s 1905, and our main character is Jeremy “Jem” Kite, who has just been fired from his job when a letter accusing him of murder showed up in his employers’ mail. This is not the first or even the tenth such letter […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: British mystery, dark academia, historical fiction, historical mystery, K.J. Charles, LGBTQIA, mystery, narfna, Oxford, Read Harder Challenge 2025

narfna's CBR17 Review No:7 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: British mystery, dark academia, historical fiction, historical mystery, K.J. Charles, LGBTQIA, mystery, narfna, Oxford, Read Harder Challenge 2025 ·
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