James Hawking
Serpent in the Thorns: A Medieval Noir
This is the second entry in a series featuring medieval private detective Crispin Guest, the Tracker. Seven years before, Crispin…
Jesse Bowman: A Union Boy’s War Story
Young readers are the target audience of this American Civil War story. Jesse Bowman enlists in the Chicago Zouaves, a…
The Stalin Epigram
The author of The Stalin Epigram is an American who has lived abroad for many years and written spy thrillers…
Rocamora
In the Spain of Felipe IV, Vicente de Rocamora writes love poetry, hears royal confessions, learns the art of…
Alexandria
This marks the nineteenth outing for the Roman informer (private detective) Marcus Didius Falco. Each book in the series centers…
Varanger
This fourth entry in the Corban Loosestrife saga takes us from frozen Viking trading posts to the outskirts of the…
Imperium
Harris might be one of the most versatile historical novelists writing today, with successful efforts in alternate history (Fatherland), World…
Days of Rage
This latest entry in the Smokey Dalton series concerns the racial politics of Chicago in 1969. In the background of…
Purity of Blood
Editors' choice
Diego Alatriste survives in the Spain of 1623 by taking commissions as a sword for hire while maintaining a firm…
Islands
The first Dutch settlement of the area around the Cape makes up a large part of South Africa’s founding myth.…
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