2014
The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty
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In his well-detailed and thoroughly researched book, The Ugly Renaissance, Alexander Lee turns our attention to the unattractive underside of what we think ...Read Review
Beyond the Horizons
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The Civil War is raging in the West. Mace Alexander of Tennessee, along with his three friends, is faced with fighting the Union ...Read Review
American Baroque
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In the summer of 1835, three strangers saunter into Mohawk, Indiana: an urchin, a scruffy schoolteacher and a scruffier, cheerfully inebriated preacher dressed in ...Read Review
The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish
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This novel is a silly romp through the Australian Museum collection in 1932. Archie Meeks returns home to his fiancée, Beatrice, after five ...Read Review
Devil’s Garden
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This is book two about the Trpimirovic dynasty in tenth-century Croatia, and those who have read Road to Knin will be happy to ...Read Review
The Trouble with Patience
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Montana Territory, 1866. The Civil War has ended and Nevada City, a rugged mining town, is a magnet for those who, like spinster Patience ...Read Review
Fever Therapy
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John Harper is a farm boy from rural Morayshire, illegitimate and unaware of his true father. He meets and marries Hannah Wilson, leaves ...Read Review
A Matter for the Jury
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Murphy’s fourth novel (after A Higher Duty, 2009) is a character-driven legal thriller of the first order. Based on real events, the plot ...Read Review
Joseph in the Land of the Mizraim
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Joseph in the Land of Mizraim is, by the author’s admission, a deeply spiritual novel but, for those like me, who know ...Read Review
Queens Never Make Bargains
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Jessie Menzies isn’t quite eighteen when she finishes her schooling in Leven, Scotland. The Great War has not yet begun, so Jessie’...Read Review