2007
A Golden Age
Tahmina Anam, the author of this first novel, begins powerfully: “Dear Husband, I lost our children today.” The voice…
The Importance of Being Kennedy
Nora Brennan, newly arrived from Ireland, narrates her life as nursery and companion servant of the renowned Kennedy family.…
Raisins and Almonds
This is the ninth installment in Kerry Greenwood’s series featuring Phryne Fisher, a wealthy, fashionable private investigator in Melbourne,…
The Man Who Killed Shakespeare
In 1932, Shakespeare, New Mexico, is barely surviving the Depression and quietly, steadily slipping downhill. Lett Halsey has inherited…
The Penny Bangle
It is 1942 and a nineteen-year-old munitions worker, Cassie Taylor leaves Birmingham to become a land girl in Dorset. When…
The Angel Gang
“Turn on the radio, would you, Denny? … Find something loud, with horns.” So begins this Jazz Age crime…
The Winter of the World
Love, betrayal, and a terrible debt to pay are the themes of The Winter of the World, the debut…
The Glass Word
This third volume of Meyer’s Dark Reflections fantasy trilogy takes place in an alternate universe where the Egyptian Empire,…
Burn My Heart
This powerful novel brings to life the Kenya Emergency of the early 1950s, when a group of freedom fighters…
Rosemary for Remembrance & Rue for Repentance
A reprint of the first two titles in the popular Janna Mysteries, this “bindup” edition of Rosemary for Remembrance…
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