2012
Tree of Pearls
This book is essentially two stories in one; both take place in the 13th-century Abbasid Empire. The first story takes…
Transcending Darkness
“If you sit in a dark hole in the ground listening to the world crashing around you, you never stop…
S.O.S. Lusitania
1915. Thirteen-year-old Finbar Kennedy suffers from prophetic nightmares. His latest is of an explosion on a big ship, and he’s…
The Doctor and the Rough Rider
Doc Holliday, Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt, and Geronimo join forces against a host of rival Indian tribes and a supernatural…
Instrument of Slaughter
In the bleak winter of 1916, war takes its increasing toll of young servicemen in France. For some Londoners, the…
A Change of Fortune
In this charming romance with Christian undertones, Lady Eliza Sumner comes to New York City in 1880, undercover as a…
The Opening Night Murder (A Restoration Mystery)
With Charles II’s restoration, Suzanne Thornton, an entrepreneuring former prostitute, receives license to put on plays at the Globe Theatre.…
Love for a Soldier
Spring 1918. Crash-landed in German-occupied France after an aerial duel with the Red Baron, wounded and desperate for escape, Captain…
Fear in the Sunlight
In Nicola Upson’s fourth Josephine Tey mystery, nothing is what it appears—no surprise with Alfred Hitchcock involved. “Hitch” thinks he’s…
Three Houses
This is a richly nostalgic and evocative account of the writer’s childhood with her younger brother (who also went on…
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