2011
The Richest Hill on Earth
Butte, Montana is a fascinating place to visit. A guided tour enlightened me on how the history in that corner…
Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder
Dumfermline, Scotland, between the World Wars, boasted two competitive department stores: Aitkin Emporium and House of Hepburn. Dandy Gilver, aristocratic…
The Train of Small Mercies
The year is 1968, and Americans are wondering what has gone wrong with their country; the war in Vietnam rages…
The House at Sea’s End
The ever-encroaching sea on the coast of Norfolk, England uncovers six skeletons, bound, shot, and hidden in a deep cove.…
The Sisters
Bertie and her older sister Mabel have stuck together since the death of their mother a few years ago. Life…
The Agency: The Traitor in the Tunnel
Mary Quinn, now a full-fledged member of the Agency, an all-female detective agency run out of a girls’ school in…
Letters from an Unknown Woman
It is 1941. Tory Pace’s children have been evacuated from London to the safety of Upper Slaughter in the Cotswolds,…
Our Man in the Dark
John Estem is an accountant apprenticing with one of the few black CPAs in the country in the 1960s. Even…
Long Way to Texas
Long Way to Texas is a collection of three classic Western novels whose timelines occurs before, during and shortly after…
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I
This historical biography of Matilda begins with a rather outrageous claim, indicating that at first Matilda rejected the marriage offer…
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