20th Century
The Betel Nut Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)
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Chen Su Lin is a secretarial assistant to Chief Inspector LeFroy in this 1930s murder mystery set in Singapore. She is drawn into ...Read Review
Radio Underground
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Based on actual Cold War letters, Littman’s fast-moving debut is infused with a simmering tension reflecting its setting: Budapest, Hungary, on the ...Read Review
Tony’s Wife
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Whether she will be ‘Tony’s wife,’ or her own, independent woman, is a decision Italian-American Chiara Donatelli has to make when she ...Read Review
An Ocean Between Us
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A first effort at historical fiction by an established literary author, An Ocean Between Us begins as a flashback from present-day New York ...Read Review
Megan’s Song
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Megan’s Song feels heavily influenced by old movie plots. It’s set in Jackson, Wyoming in 1925, and it has just about everything. ...Read Review
In Times Gone By (Golden Gate Secrets)
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This is Book Three of Peterson’s Golden Gate Secrets trilogy. It opens just after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The city is ...Read Review
Like a Sword Wound (Ottoman Quartet)
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This first book in the Ottoman Quartet is set in the late 19th century and early 20th century in Turkey. An absolute Sultan ...Read Review
At the Far End of Nowhere
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Between 1950 and the 1970s, Lissa Power grows up with quite a unique family. Her father, Stouten, is a watchmaker, inventor, and genius with ...Read Review
In the Midnight Room
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In the Midnight Room is a complex and layered story about four women’s lives—sometimes passing, sometimes intersecting—throughout the second half ...Read Review
The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful Career
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Francisco “Pancho” Villa describes the underpinnings of the Mexican Revolution and how he came to be involved in it. Readers first learn about ...Read Review