Alternate History

Cahokia Jazz

By Francis Spufford - Published 2023

Genres:

Alternate HistoryLiteraryMystery/Crime

It is 1922, and in a mythical city in the Midwestern United States an Aztec-style murder has been discovered on a rooftop. This sets ...Read Review

Let the Dead Bury the Dead

By Allison Epstein - Published 2023

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Alternate History

In her second novel, Allison Epstein blends the historical and the fabulous with an understated elegance. Set in an alternative pre-Revolutionary St. Petersburg ...Read Review

Resistance and Revenge

By Catherine McCullagh - Published 2023

Genres:

Alternate History

Louisa Carmody is the lady of a small local manor in an alternate 1941 England, which Germany has successfully invaded and now brutally occupies. ...Read Review

Sunset Empire (Morris Baker, 2)

By Josh Weiss - Published 2023

Genres:

Alternate HistoryMystery/CrimeThriller

In an alternate 1952, Joseph McCarthy, architect of the communist-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee, becomes President amid a wave of postwar xenophobia and antisemitism. ...Read Review

Half-Life of a Stolen Sister

By Rachel Cantor - Published 2023

Genres:

Alternate History

An ailing mother describes her children: Annie who will always be the baby; Em who cares less for people than places; Branny, the ...Read Review

The Apple and the Tree

By Clemmie Bennett - Published 2023

Genres:

Alternate HistoryTime-slip

This Tudor timeslip story takes London nanny Ella Buckley, whose modern life is blighted by the recent death of her adored grandmother, and ...Read Review

Solomon’s Crown

By Natasha Siegel - Published 2023

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Alternate History

Twelfth-century Europe. King Henry II of England faces insurrection on all sides from his three sons: Richard, Geoffrey, and John. The King of ...Read Review

Queen of Ophir

By Hannah Ross - Published 2022

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Alternate History

960 CE, Ethiopia. Queen Judith, leading a country of devout Israelite faithful, is preparing for war. After her father’s murder by the neighboring ...Read Review

The Albion Initiative: A Newbury & Hobbes Investigation

By George Mann - Published 2022

Genres:

Alternate HistoryMystery/Crime

A prospective patient is being led by wheelchair into London’s notorious psychiatric hospital, known as Bedlam. Accompanying him is a nurse and ...Read Review

The Calculations of Rational Men

By Daniel Godfrey - Published 2022

Genres:

Alternate History

In The Calculations of Rational Men, 500 British prisoners are caught in a nuclear disaster in December 1962. Forced into a WWII air raid shelter ...Read Review