20th Century
Bones of a Saint
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RJ Armante, 15, lives in a rundown trailer park in 1978 California, oldest child of a single working mother. It’s summer, and while his ...Read Review
A Rogue’s Company (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery, 3)
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On the advice of business partner Iris Sparks, Gwendolyn Bainbridge gets her first taste of a heavy punching bag at Macaulay’s Martial ...Read Review
Orchestra
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This is a wonderful and a frustrating book. In part it is a rattling good old-fashioned thriller, such as Fredrick Forsyth might have ...Read Review
The Russian Key
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After a stultifying year of translating documents from Russian to English in the early 1960s, Kate Landau is frustrated that her CIA career ...Read Review
Murder at Keyhaven Castle (A Stella and Lyndy Mystery)
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This is the third book in the Stella and Lyndy mystery series. It is 1905, and American heiress Stella McKendrick is preparing for her ...Read Review
Wedding Station (A John Russell WWII Spy Thriller)
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In Wedding Station, a prequel to his John Russell Station espionage novels, author David Downing creates a time and place as real and ...Read Review
The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles)
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In 1906, Lady Elizabeth (Libby) Sinclair travels with her maid and friend, Mabena Moon, to the thoroughly romantic setting of the Scilly Isles for ...Read Review
Alec
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William di Canzio retells the ending of E. M. Forster’s novel Maurice from working-class Alec Scudder’s perspective, then carries forward the ...Read Review
Widespread Panic
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Freddy Otash, ex-marine drill instructor in WWII and all-around tough guy, becomes an LA cop. He and his fellow police surveil, arrest and ...Read Review
Man from Montana
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In 1913, Woodrow Russell Hart, aka Red Ranger, is writing an anthology about his life as a younger man. He wants to expose the ...Read Review