Putnam
Order in Chaos
Early on the morning of Friday the thirteenth of October, 1307, King Philip le Bel of France descended upon every…
The Wet Nurse’s Tale
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Miss Susan Rose is the narrator and protagonist of this tale, which takes place in Victorian England. Raised by a…
Brimstone
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Hired gunmen Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole become deputies again to “clean up” a town in the Old West. These…
A Quiet Flame
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Framed as a war criminal, ex-SS officer Bernie Gunther is forced to flee to Argentina with the likes of Adolph…
Devil’s Garden
With the rash of mysteries featuring famous people as amateur detectives, I tend to sigh when I see another one,…
The Rose of Sebastopol
In The Rose of Sebastopol the horrors of the Crimean War are described by a most unlikely narrator—Mariella Lingwood, a…
The Help
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In 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, Skeeter, a young white aspiring journalist, comes home from Ole Miss and decides to document…
Grave Goods
Adelia Aguilar, Mistress of the Art of Death, finds that she has to leave her home in Cambridgeshire before she…
The Youngest Templar: Keeper of the Grail, Book 1
A young boy named Tristan, abandoned as an infant with a note about his innocence and need for safety, is…
Mistress Shakespeare
Basing her premise on a marriage bond found in Worcester, England, author Harper has fashioned an intriguing and plausible story…
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