20th Century
Red Rover
The novel opens in 1927 with two of the main characters, Neil and Aidan Tierney (nine and thirteen, respectively), riding…
Aaronsohn’s Maps: The Untold Story of the Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Middle East
Those critics who ridicule novelists for creating action heroes with talents and lives that transcend those of the average person…
The War Against Miss Winter
In 1943, even in New York City, the heart of American theatre, acting jobs are scarce, so struggling actress Rose…
Cheap Diamonds
It’s New York in the early 1970s, and fresh-faced (though freakishly white-haired) Cherry Marshall from Arkansas has arrived with a…
The Wandering Ghost
Corporal Jill Matthewson, the first woman ever assigned to 2nd Division Military Police in the demilitarized zone of mid-1970s South…
The Indian Clerk
The first issue a historical fiction writer needs to solve is how much research to include. Too little and the…
Penhallow
When a crime novel begins with the immortal words “Jimmy the Bastard was cleaning boots …” then the reader can…
The Quality of Mercy
The Quality of Mercy is the latest entry in the mystery series featuring a seemingly unlikely pair: British aristocrat Lord…
We Shall Not Sleep
This is the fifth and final volume in Anne Perry’s series of World War I mysteries about the Reavley siblings:…
Death on the Nevskii Prospekt
Russia, terrorist capital of the world at the beginning of the 20th century. In St Petersburg the body of an…
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