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The Lost Book of Mala R.
MacDowell’s novel tells the story of three California women in the present, each affected in different ways by the journal…
Pirate King
Mary Russell, American-born wife to Sherlock Holmes, signs on as assistant to the film crew in the heyday of silent…
Hellfire
August, 1942, North Africa. General Gott, the commander of the Eighth Army, is killed, and suspicion points to a previously…
Revenger
This is the second novel by Clements featuring the Elizabethan ‘intelligencer’, John Shakespeare. His more famous younger brother pops up…
Madame Bovary’s Daughter
Picking up in 1852, a year after the shattering end of Flaubert’s famous novel, young Berthe is burying her father.…
Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron
Jane Austen is getting old. In Barron’s tenth mystery featuring the author of Pride and Prejudice as amateur sleuth, Miss…
Hunting Evil
Guy Walters in Hunting Evil deals with the Nazi war criminals who escaped, and the hunt to bring them to…
Elizabeth’s Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen
Tracy Borman, chief executive of the Heritage Education Trust and a frequent contributor to BBC History Magazine, has taken on…
The Violin of Auschwitz
This is the story of Daniel, a Jewish violin maker who describes himself as a “carpenter, cabinetmaker” when placed in…
Hero of Rome
September AD 59. In order to obtain the necessary military experience to make a career in politics, Tribune Gaius Valerius…
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