2012
The Revenge of Moriarty
The Revenge of Moriarty follows The Return of Moriarty. Basically, he’s baaaack! Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis, has returned from the…
Recipe for Treason: A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery
What a wonderful combination of a Regency-era cloak-and-dagger mystery and chocolate cookbook! Each chapter features a mouthwatering recipe of Lady…
The Innkeeper’s Daughter
Val Wood is a Yorkshire woman who now lives in Beverley and certainly knows the region and history of which…
The Falcons of Fire and Ice
In 16th-century Iceland, a menacing stranger possesses the soul of a woman, chained with her twin sister in a deep…
To Tempt the Devil
London, 1598. Rafe Fletcher has come home after seven long years as a foreign mercenary. Forced to leave home as…
A Home in Drayton Valley
In 1880 New York City, Tarsie Raines daydreams with her sick friend, Mary Brubacher, about moving somewhere with fresh air…
Poacher’s Moon
This is a fine Victorian novel with action, intrigue, big houses and hardworking Yorkshire folk. It starts predictably with a…
Chojun
Before World War II, the island of Okinawa was a world of quiet fishing communities, modest homes, and Goju Ryu…
A Crown of Despair
I was rather surprised to find myself enjoying this novel, as it is written in the first-person present tense, with…
Kipling & Trix
Mary Hamer’s Kipling and Trix elegantly walks the borders between fact and fiction in her retelling of Rudyard Kipling’s story…
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