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Secrets and Shadows
1941. When twelve-year-old Grace Ryan’s Dublin home is bombed, she goes to live with her grandfather and uncle in another…
Something Strange and Deadly
Eleanor would do anything for her dear older brother Elijah, including fighting an evil necromancer who is awakening the dead…
The King’s Spy
Even in a quiet backwater like Romsey, pacifist bookseller and mathematician Thomas Hill cannot entirely avoid the lawlessness and disruption of…
Splendors and Glooms
The title of this upper-middle-grade novel derives from Percy Shelley’s poem “Adonais”: “And others came … Desires and Adorations, /…
Istanbul Passage
If you enjoy Graham Greene or John le Carré espionage novels, then this is the book for you—bleak, deceitful, and…
Sacred Treason
This is the first volume in a trilogy of political thrillers set in Elizabethan England. The protagonist, William Harley, although…
The Ghosts of Athens
Athens of 612 AD is a decadent and vulnerable city, threatened by starving barbarian tribes. Richard Blake’s protagonist, Aelric, a…
Lehrter Station
This is the fifth novel in Downing’s series that features World War II era journalist John Russell, and the first…
Mission to Paris
While this novel opens dramatically with a murder in Bulgaria, its settings change rapidly, and finally the protagonist appears on…
Invisible Country
At the end of the Triple Alliance War, in 1868, Paraguay is a devastated country. Facing a congregation with only…
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