20th Century
Give Me Tomorrow
Elizabeth Lord writes warm and dependable sagas about the lives of women in the early 20th century. This one, first…
The Last Train to Scarborough
March 1914. In what could be his last case before leaving the force to train as a lawyer, railway detective…
Murder at Deviation Junction
In this fourth in a series featuring railway detective Jim Stringer, the harsh British winter of 1909 can be felt…
Sunnyside
Editors' choice
Gold’s panoramic novel of World War I and early Hollywood opens with a mass delusion: film actor Charlie Chaplin is…
A Reliable Wife
Ralph Truitt and Catherine Land meet at a train station in rural Wisconsin in 1907. Ralph’s ad for a reliable…
Angel’s Flight
Boston blueblood Mercy Alcutt returns in the second book in Duncan’s series set in 1920s Los Angeles. Mercy, a budding…
The Moon Looked Down
Sophie Heller and her family flee the Nazi regime in 1933, emigrating to the United States from Germany. The family…
The Hidden War
Set in 1948, the novel opens with tensions increasing between the Soviet forces and the western Allied forces in Berlin.…
Cold Blood
As the Bolsheviks seize power, Charlie Doig, half-Scot, half-Russian, sets off in pursuit of personal vengeance. Acquiring an armoured train…
The Girl from Junchow
Lydia Ivanovna is The Girl From Junchow. When Lydia was five, she and her Russian mother went to China to…
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