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Blood Between Queens
The Thornleigh series continues with this fifth installment in which Richard Thornleigh’s ward, Justine Grenville, is entrusted with a delicate…
Butch Cassidy: The Lost Years
Hank Parker, a cowboy of eighty-plus years, has a past he’d rather keep hidden. In 1950 Parker is the same…
A Touch of Scarlet
Emma Townsend’s second autumn at Lockwood Prep brings more than a change of seasons. Her boyfriend began training with an…
The Plum Tree
Wiseman writes engagingly about WWII from the point of view of a seventeen-year-old German girl on the home front. At…
The Forgotten Queen
The Tudors were a fiery, memorable family. Headstrong, passionate, often foolhardy, restless… this describes the forgotten Tudor, Queen Margaret of…
The Dead Shall Not Rest
In this second mystery featuring Dr. Thomas Silkstone, the Philadelphian anatomist living in 1780s London investigates the murder of a…
Skeleton Women
Heavenly Songbird Camilla is the top nightclub singer in Shanghai, adopted as a child by a Chinese mobster, Wang, and…
A Lack of Temperance
The Hattie Davish mystery series is off to a promising start. The young amateur sleuth is a traveling secretary with…
Bedding Lord Ned
Venus Valentine, Duchess of Greycliffe, was born on St. Valentine’s Day, as were her three sons, and every year she…
The Sumerton Women
When her parents die of the sweating sickness, eight-year-old Cecily becomes the ward of the family living at Sumerton Castle,…
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