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The Devil’s Pact

By James Holland - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

Set mainly in Sicily, during the Allied invasion of July 1943, this novel certainly does not lack for action. The battle scenes are vividly ...Read Review

The Bones of Paris

By Laurie R. King - Published 2013Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Oh, to have been a private dick in 1929 Paris! American expatriate and ex-Federal investigator Harris Stuyvesant is on the rapidly cooling trail of ...Read Review

Sword of Rome

By Douglas Jackson - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

‘I am a soldier.’ This is the answer Valerius gives to himself and others. A young but scarred veteran who has lost his ...Read Review

The Sword and the Throne

By Henry Venmore-Rowland - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

The Sword and the Throne continues the memoir begun in The Last Caesar (HNR 61) of Aulus Caecina Severus, an ambitious senator caught up ...Read Review

The King’s Exile

By Andrew Swanston - Published 2013

Genres:

Adventure

In spring 1648, scholar, bookseller and once royal cryptographer Thomas Hill is back in his bookshop in Hampshire, well content to be done with ...Read Review

The People’s Will

By Jasper Kent - Published 2013

Genres:

Historical FantasyThriller

It’s 1881, and the Russians have just conquered the Turcomans, from whose stronghold they take a prisoner, Iuda, to St Petersburg to be ...Read Review

Brothers’ Fury

By Giles Kristian - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

If 1642 was a bad year for the Rivers siblings, 1643 is hardly better. Sir Edmund craves to exact bloody revenge from the Rebels who ...Read Review

The Ways of the World

By Robert Goddard - Published 2013

Genres:

Thriller

It is 1919, and Paris is seething with diplomats and politicians wrangling over the aftermath of the First World War, as well as the ...Read Review

His Majesty’s Hope

By Susan Elia MacNeal - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureMystery/Crime

In 1941, Maggie Hope, a mathematician and code breaker working for an elite British spy organization, parachutes into Nazi Germany. She poses as the ...Read Review

His Dark Lady

By Victoria Lamb - Published 2013

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Lucy Morgan, an exotic beauty of African descent and the ward of a spy in Sir Francis Walsingham’s employ, is Queen Elizabeth’...Read Review