St. Martin's Press
The Mercy Seller
Editors' choice
Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, make their living illuminating precious books in early 15th-century Prague, a hotbed of religious…
Forests of the Night: A Johnny Hawke Novel
This first book in a new series set in World War II-era London features ex-cop Johnny Hawke, who has just…
A Treasury of Regret
When investigator Aristide Ravel enters the office of his local police commissariat, he’s met by Laurence Dupont, a young woman…
The Eagle’s Prophecy
The first US edition of the sixth novel in Scarrow’s epic series of the Roman army begins in Rome, in…
The Book of Samson
An angel announces to Samson’s barren mother that she will give birth to a son who will be remembered for…
Pompeii: The Living City
Beginning in 54 AD, twenty-five years before Vesuvius rained ash and death, Pompeii covers the life of the city through…
A King’s Trade
It’s 1799, and the Napoleonic Wars have just begun. Alan Lewrie, captain of the 32-gun British frigate HMS Proteus, is…
Bedlam
Snatched off to London’s notorious madhouse Bethlem hospital in 1797, James Matthews is denied access to his family or any…
The Angels Of Morgan Hill
In 1947, nine-year-old Jane Gable is attending the funeral of her drunken, abusive father when she sees the face of…
The Last Wife Of Henry VIII
Erickson is well known to lovers of royal non-fiction. Only with her previous novel, The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette,…
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