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The Queen’s Knight
Sir Howard Elphinstone distinguished himself as a hero of the Crimean War at the early age of 29 for…
Private Arrangements
In 1893 London, a perfect marriage among the aristocratic elite was hard to find, with one notable exception: that…
The Great Wall
Man doesn’t mince words. This is another author anxious to show that well- established ideas are more historical myth…
The Anatomy of Deception
In the autopsy rooms of University Hospital, West Philadelphia, the young physician, Ephraim Carroll, is being taught about death by…
The Last Concubine
The Last Concubine is set in Japan in the mid-1860s at the time of the Civil War, the coming of…
The Flaw in the Blood
This is a strange book, a thriller set in Victoria’s Britain of 1861, but one with very high-class villains. It’s…
Troy: Fall of Kings
David Gemmell’s untimely death in 2006 robbed the world of a master storyteller. His wife’s involvement in the Troy trilogy…
The Serpent’s Tale
Adelia Aguilar is still in England after her detecting adventures as chronicled in Mistress of the Art of Death. King…
The Betrayal Game
Robbins’s Professor Mikhal Lammeck travels to Cuba in 1961 at the opening of this novel by the author of The…
Touchstone
Laurie R. King gave us the brilliant recreation of Sherlock Holmes with more depth than Conan Doyle ever mustered in…
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