20th Century
Spring And Fall
It’s 1962, with intellectual, cultural, and sexual revolutions in full swing on college campuses when Lawrence, a Harvard senior in…
The Rommel Mission
This novel’s setting is the summer of 1944. In Normandy, the D-Day invasion is under way. Field Marshal Rommel is…
An Unmentionable Murder
This delightful cozy mystery, set in World War II rural England, is the latest in the author’s Manor House series.…
Plum Wine
While teaching at a Tokyo school in the 1960s, Barbara Jefferson receives a bequest from her Japanese surrogate mother and…
The One From The Other
Think Sam Spade as a German PI in postwar Europe, only here the streets are meaner than any in Dashiell…
The Lydgate Widow
Young Adele’s father fills her head with tales of the enigmatic Lydgate Widow, whose abandoned house dominates the Lancashire village.…
This Time Of Dying
Editors' choice
This most unusual first novel chronicles the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic in London. The story opens with flu-stricken Dr. Wey…
The One From The Other
Think Sam Spade as a German PI in postwar Europe, only here the streets are meaner than any in Dashiell…
Witch Cradle
Although set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in 1950, Hunter’s Dance, Kathleen Hills’ previous book in her John McIntire series, could…
Golden Country
Jennifer Gilmore’s debut novel is a sweeping story of Russian Jewish immigrants in New York during the twentieth century. Many…
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