The Obituary Writer

Ann Hood

Claire, Peter and Kathy are a typical family in 1960s America, obsessed with burgeoning success, the incoming President, John F. Kennedy, and his stylish wife, Jackie. They spend…

Dark Tales from the Woods

Daniel Morden

This collection of tales comes from the early 18th-century travelling gypsy storyteller, Abram Wood, stories which have passed down the Wood family for over two hundred years. Often,…

Recipe for Treason: A Lady Arianna…

Andrea Penrose

What a wonderful combination of a Regency-era cloak-and-dagger mystery and chocolate cookbook! Each chapter features a mouthwatering recipe of Lady Arianna’s as we follow her and Lord Saybrook,…

The Toll of the Sea

Theresa Murphy

Joby Lancer is the only survivor from the terrible shipwreck which claims the lives of over 400 men, women and children, but what or who is the man…

The Roots of Betrayal

James Forrester

In the sequel to his novel Sacred Treason, James Forrester returns to the story of the Elizabethan herald, William Harley, known as Clarenceux. When the document he has…

Bristol House

Beverly Swerling

Beverly Swerling’s latest work is a gripping dual-period novel that is partly a ghost story. Events in Tudor London affect the modern-day life of Annie Kendall, an architectural…

Warpaint

Alicia Foster

During World War II a War Advisory Artists Committee (WAAC) was put in place to ensure the survival of British art; it was chaired by Sir Kenneth Clark.…

Falling to Earth

Kate Southwood

The worst tornado in U.S. history ripped through the Midwest on March 18, 1925. It killed at least 747 people and injured 2,300. The worst hit town was…

The Other Typist

Suzanne Rindell

Police typist Rose Baker records confessions in a precinct on New York’s Lower East Side. There’s plenty of work to do; Prohibition has made a lot of people…

The River of No Return

Bee Ridgway

This novel is beautifully written with a real sense of rhythm to the words which made it very easy to read. I found it easy to get lost…

Unnatural Habits

Kerry Greenwood

The always-indomitable and independently wealthy sleuth Phryne Fisher and her cast of sidekicks and supporters is back in this romp through the seamy side of Melbourne in 1929.…

The Girls in Blue

Lily Baxter

When her London home is destroyed in a bombing raid, Miranda Beddoes has no choice but to take refuge at the family home, Highcliffe House in Dorset, while…

Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott’s Marvel

Anne Strathie

Captain Robert Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole has been analyzed from many points of view, and some of his fellow explorers are well known. Though Henry…

In Times of Fading Light

Anthea Bell (trans.), Eugen Ruge

Eugen Ruge’s newly translated literary novel lets us experience the political upheaval of a German family, interspersed with somewhat sarcastic reflections on their way of life. Following multiple protagonists during…

Leaving Everything Most Loved: A Maisie…

Jacqueline Winspear

Editors' choice

In 1933 the body of Usha Pramal is found in a London canal, but Scotland Yard is slow to solve the murder. Two months later, Usha’s brother arrives…