2008
A Passion Most Pure
In 1916, the Great War is raging overseas, and a smaller war is brewing in the Boston O’Connor household. Two…
Life Class
In early 1914, Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are students at the Slade School of Art’s life-drawing class run by…
The Butcher of Smithfield
London 1663: Lord Clarendon’s spy Thomas Chaloner returns from a foreign assignment to an unfriendly greeting from his unreasonable paymaster.…
The Winter War
Solid young adult author (most reviews give the age ranges for his books as upper elementary through middle school) William…
The Anatomy of Deception
Editors' choice
Ephraim Carroll is a young physician in late 19th-century Philadelphia who counts himself lucky to be in the orbit of…
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
Oscar Wilde makes his debut as a fictional sleuth in this recent addition to the spate of historical detective novels…
The Seduction of the Crimson Rose
Fourth in Willig’s mystery series featuring the exploits of English spies in the Napoleonic era, The Seduction of the Crimson…
The Hope Chest
Editors' choice
Violet is eleven years old, but she has run away in order to find her older sister, Chloe. Chloe has…
As High as the Heavens
It is 1568, and a group of loyalists plan to rescue Mary Queen of Scots from her imprisonment in Lochleven…
The Reavers
The Reavers is a saucy fantasy romp in the vein of MacDonald Fraser’s Pyrates. It is set in the border…
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