Ilysa Magnus
Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland
Margaret is a young Saxon princess shipwrecked on the shores of Scotland. The only way that she, her mother, sister…
City of Dreams
Boston book dealer and treasure hunter, Peter Fallon, makes a reappearance in this, the most recent of Martin’s suspense novels…
The Heretic’s Wife
Kate Gough and her brother maintain a London bookshop during the reign of Henry VIII. Their “inventory” contains contraband Lutheran…
The Dead Travel Fast
In 1858 Edinburgh, Theodora Lestrange finds herself an anchorless young spinster. She has just lost her grandfather, a kindly professor…
The Stolen Crown
The story of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV has been told hundreds of times, but never quite the way that…
The Heretic’s Wife
Kate Gough and her brother maintain a London bookshop during the reign of Henry VIII. Their “inventory” contains contraband Lutheran…
Wolf Hall
Editors' choice
The story of the courtship and marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is the stuff of legend. I could…
The Sealed Letter
Based upon the events surrounding an actual, scandalous, and well-documented 1864 London divorce trial, Donoghue’s newest novel explores the disparate…
All Other Nights
Editors' choice
The title to this brilliant and thought-provoking novel comes from a question asked to the youngest participant at a Passover…
The Language of Bees: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
I, admittedly, have been a fan of Laurie R. King’s since I picked up The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first installment…
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