Ilysa Magnus
The Mercy Seller
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Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, make their living illuminating precious books in early 15th-century Prague, a hotbed of religious…
Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog
Philologist, critic, essayist and translator from the Japanese Grigory Chkhartishvili adopts the pen name of Boris Akunin for this anticipated…
A Mass for the Dead
In McDuffie’s first mystery, set in Scotland in 1373, the author looks deep into the glass of her own ancestry…
The Sparks Fly Upward
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As the waning days of the French Revolution evolve into the Reign of Terror, marked by indiscriminate beheadings, fear and…
The Water Devil
Riley completes her Margaret of Ashbury trilogy (A Vision of Light and In Pursuit of the Green Lion being the…
The First Princess of Wales
Originally published in 1984 as Sweet Passion’s Pain and revised in this version, Karen Harper (now known for her Elizabeth…
The Ruby in Her Navel
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Set during the brief but glittering rule of the Norman kings, this beautifully written novel opens in Palermo where Arab,…
The Boleyn Inheritance
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Gregory’s latest novel focuses on the lives of three women, all of whom bear witness to the Boleyn family’s legacy:…
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,…
Poison To Purge Melancholy
The third installment in this delightful series is set during Christmas in present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. Pat Montella, though promising to…
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