In this masterful work of true crime, Krist (The Mirage Factory) wraps a detailed portrait of a booming late-19th-century San Francisco around an engrossing account of a scandalous murder.

In MWA grand masters Muller and Pronzini’s sprightly fifth mystery set in late 19th-century San Francisco (after 2016’s The Plague of Thieves), Sabina Carpenter, an ardent suffragette ...