2006
Counting on Grace
Living in a Vermont mill town in 1910, 12-year-old Grace expects to join her mother and older sister at…
Death and the Cornish Fiddler
Editors' choice
When newly widowed John Rawlings and his daughter Rose are invited to accompany Elizabeth di Lorenzi to Helstone for…
The Poe Shadow
Baltimore lawyer and Poe admirer Quentin Clark has a promising law practice and, after shaking off his cluelessness regarding…
The Hour of the Cobra
Twins Xavier and Xanthe Alexander travel back in time to the Egypt of Cleopatra, via the magical “alleviators” discovered…
What Caroline Knew
Caryn James’s second novel is a Jazz Age story of the art world that echoes the themes of love,…
Absolute Honour
If you haven’t already come across Jack Absolute, redcoat officer, lover, spy – where on earth have you been?…
Bitter Wind
It is 1876, and people are moving west. Small towns are springing up everywhere. Bill Lang, hired as a…
The Golden Hour
After the sudden death of their mother, Rowan and Nina Popplewell are packed off to Maine to spend a…
Morning Sky
Nicodemus, Kansas, was founded in 1877 as a refuge for ex-slaves from the South. Miller sets her Freedom’s Path…
In the City of Dark Waters
In 1908 Revel Callender, an English lawyer, is living in Venice, taking time off to see all that Italy…
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