Putnam
The Gendarme
Editors' choice
During World War I, Ahmet Kahn, a Turkish soldier, suffers an injury that destroys his memory of the past. He…
The Creation of Eve
The Creation of Eve is Cullen’s first foray into adult fiction, and it is quite a promising beginning. The story…
A Murderous Procession
The stellar Mistress of the Art of Death series continues! Adelia Aguilar, Salerno-trained physician who has been well-nigh kidnapped by…
Infamous
George “Machine Gun” Kelly was one of the well known, but curiously now forgotten gangsters of the lawless Midwest in…
IF THE DEAD RISE NOT
Interwar Berlin police officer Bernie Gunther has had his share of troubles in Philip Kerr’s March Violets, A German Requiem,…
Leaving Gee’s Bend
(1) Ten-year-old Ludelphia Bennett has never left Gee’s Bend, a sharecropping village on the Alabama River. But her mother is…
The Queen’s Governess
Kat Ashley, who looked after Elizabeth I through much of her childhood and adolescence, and kept her love and loyalty…
The Crimson Rooms
In London in 1924, Evelyn Gifford is a young lawyer of thirty, a single woman living at home with her…
The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet
Editors' choice
In this fifth book in the adventures of Captain Alatriste, the captain and his page, soldier in training Íñigo Balboa,…
The Perfect Poison
Lucinda Bromley is a botanist living in Victorian London. She has an apparently paranormal knack for detecting poisons which makes…
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