Counterpoint
The Silver Lotus
During the last decades of the 19th century, the ruggedly handsome and dashing sea trader Captain Jeremiah Macy Hammond, descended…
Apricot Jam
As one who can truthfully say she enjoyed (if that’s the right word) Nobel Prize-winner Solzhenitsyn’s soul shattering Cancer Ward…
The Little Russian
Only the courage and endurance of the Jews of Russia match the suffering of the Jews of Russia. Susan Sherman’s…
The Adjustment
The term “anti-hero” fits Wayne Ogden to a T, although it’s not a term you would think to apply to…
Accabadora
This is Sardinian Michela Murgia’s first novel and comes garlanded with prizes from Italy, where it was first published in…
Knight of Swords
The winter of 1944 closes in on Northern Italy, and an officer fighting with the partisans is accused of betraying…
The Eden Hunter
Kau is a pygmy, sold into slavery after a vengeful attack upon his village by the neighboring Kesa tribe. The…
Eye of the Raven
Editors' choice
In the second installment of his colonial mystery series, Edgar Award winner Pattison provides an absorbing tale firmly and effectively…
Jarrettsville
In 1869, Martha Cairnes walks up to the porch of a hotel in Jarrettsville, Maryland, where a group of ex-Union…
Bone Rattler
It’s the mid-18th century, and young Highland Scot Duncan McCallum is on a convict ship bound for the New World.…
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