2007
Mademoiselle Victorine
This engaging novel recounts an exciting life for the nude model in Edouard Manet’s famous painting, Olympia. Mademoiselle Victorine is…
A Beautiful Blue Death
Yet another Victorian mystery series, you say? Yes… and this one starts off with a bang! Intelligent, witty, clever and…
In at the Death
Rome, in the reign of the Emperor Tiberius: a young man, with everything to live for, appears to commit suicide…
The Eagle in the Sand
Simon Scarrow’s seventh novel has Roman legionnaires Macro and Cato sent to a fort in Judea to investigate disturbing rumours…
The Quest
In the fourth novel of Wilbur Smith’s Egyptian series, the story of Taita the eunuch continues but delves further into…
A Tendering in the Storm
This book continues the story begun in A Clearing in the Wild. Both novels are based on the true story…
Voices of the Night
Former pickpocket and secret murderess Maggie King has run afoul of London’s most notorious criminal. She and her “chavies,” the…
Murder on the Eiffel Tower
June 1889. The Eiffel Tower is the most popular exhibit of the Paris Exposition and thousands flock each day to…
The Moonlit Cage
In 1846, eleven-year-old Darya is on the brink of womanhood. Her dearest companion, her Circassian grandmother, regales Darya with tales…
The Mercy Seller
Editors' choice
Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, make their living illuminating precious books in early 15th-century Prague, a hotbed of religious…
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