Early United States
The Folklorist
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Set in Vermont during the 1830s and 1970s, this story alternates between Jerusha Kendall in Birch Falls and her several times great-granddaughter, Charlotte ...Read Review
The Frozen River
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The frozen body of a man is captive in the ice of Maine’s Kennebec River. Once he is cut free and laid ...Read Review
Crow Mary
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Crow Mary is based on the life of Goes First, a Crow chief’s daughter. Her story begins in 1863 as a young girl ...Read Review
Brock’s Spirit
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General Brock is dead, but his sense of honor, justice, and bold service lives on in Jonathan Westlake. Only a handful of people ...Read Review
Let Us Descend
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Young Annis, an enslaved girl in the antebellum South, meets a series of misfortunes and is thrust into ever more hellish circumstances in ...Read Review
Before the Devil Knows You’re Here
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Teenaged Catalina, her younger brother, Jose Luis, and their widowed Pa live on a hardscrabble farm in the Wisconsin Territory of 1836. Pa takes ...Read Review
Longhorns East
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Tom Candy Ponting was a little-known 19th century cattleman who led an improbable 2,100-mile-long cattle drive. This fictionalized account presents an epic story ...Read Review
The Lace Widow (An Eliza Hamilton Mystery)
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New York, 1804. Alexander Hamilton has been killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. Eliza Hamilton, his wife, is distraught at the loss of ...Read Review
The Solace of Stars: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery
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This second in a new series, inspired by the author’s work at an outdoor ethnic museum in Wisconsin, introduces Hanneke Bauer, a ...Read Review
I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died (An Emily Dickinson Mystery)
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Intrepid poet Emily Dickinson and her maid, Willa Noble, return as a pair of amateur sleuths in this delightful and well-researched historical mystery. ...Read Review
