20th Century
Mystery in the Highlands (The Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency)
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In this third installment of The Scottish Ladies Detective Agency series, set in 1911 Scotland, Maud McIntyre and Daisy, her lady’s maid, embark ...Read Review
The Wings of Poppy Pendleton
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One awful morning in 1907, young Poppy Pendleton goes missing, apparently taken from her bed in her wealthy parents’ castle on Koster Isle in ...Read Review
Crook Manifesto
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Second in a trilogy, Crook Manifesto is a brisk ride that tears through 1970s Harlem until each projected act of violence erupts mid-paragraph, ...Read Review
Artifice
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The daughter of Amsterdam artists, eighteen-year-old Isa de Smit has suffered ever since her mother’s death and the Nazi occupation of the ...Read Review
The Things We’ll Never Have
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In this novel set in mid-1960s London, we are introduced to the protagonist, Everleigh, about to have her fondest wish come true. ...Read Review
Under the Cover of Mercy
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As the German Army marches into Belgium in 1914, Edith Cavell, Matron of the Red Cross’ Berkendael Medical Institute, meets with the new Military ...Read Review
Unsettled
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Immigrant German pioneer farming families in Iowa provide the historical setting for this novel, a fictionalized story of the author’s own family ...Read Review
The Campbell Sisters
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Helen, Carolyn and Peggy Campbell, young women in their twenties, live in New York in 1955 with their strict Irish immigrant parents. Helen, the ...Read Review
The Black Crescent
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Set in 1950s Morocco, amid growing resistance to French rule, The Black Crescent is a novel about family ties, societal change and contrast ...Read Review
The Golden Doves
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Building on the success of her Lilac Girls trilogy, Kelly’s The Golden Doves takes the reader into the turbulent decade following the ...Read Review
