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Poseidon’s Spear
Distraught over the death of his wife, Aristemnos — bronzesmith, warrior, and survivor of the battle of Marathon — flings…
The Virgin Cure
Editors' choice
Ami McKay’s second novel is set in the tenements of lower Manhattan about five years after the end of the…
Jasmine Nights
In 1942, Saba Tarcan, a determined and talented young singer from Cardiff, joins ENSA, the Entertainments National Service Association, much…
The Unseen
As in her earlier, acclaimed novel, The Legacy, author Katherine Webb designs her new story, The Unseen, around a dual…
Distant Thunder
Editors' choice
Towards the end of the 19th century the young Frank Gray sees his mother assaulted and killed. Though he and…
The P.K. Pinkerton Mysteries: The Case of the Good-Looking Corpse
Virginia City, U.S.A., 1862. Twelve-year-old P.K. Pinkerton, Virginia City’s youngest private eye, has just taken on his first case. He…
The Candle Man
Few events in recent history hold such a fascination or resonance as the Whitechapel murders in 1888 and the sinking…
The Secret Children
1925. When James MacDonald, a lonely Scots tea planter in Assam, took a beautiful Indian girl as a concubine, he…
The House of Silk
To the delight of Sherlock fans everywhere, there’s been a definite surge of renewed interest in Sherlock Holmes in recent…
Talina in the Tower
Review #1 Venice, 1866. On a quiet day in November, the Ravageurs, half-wolf, half-hyena, return to Venice, their ancestral home.…
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