John Kachuba
The Well
There seems to be a spate of religious historical novels being published about marginal biblical characters. Considering the paucity of…
Iscariot
The name Judas has become synonymous with “traitor” as a result of one of the most heinous acts of betrayal…
My One Square Inch of Alaska
Life in 1950s small-town Groverton, Ohio, doesn’t hold much interest for ambitious high-school senior Donna Lane, who has visions of…
Seven Locks
In 1769, after an argument with his wife, an angry farmer stalks off into the Catskill Mountains with his dog,…
The Soledad Crucifixion
What novel that opens with the voluntary Good Friday crucifixion of a Catholic priest in the mountains of northern New…
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
The swashbuckling heroes in Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo have stirred the imaginations of…
Hide Me Among the Graves
In the winter of 1862, Adelaide McKee, a reformed prostitute, knocks on the door of John Crawford, a widowed veterinarian…
Maleficium
Purported to be the scandalous confessional of Vicar Jerome Savoie, this novel tells the story of seven men as they…
The Train of Small Mercies
The year is 1968, and Americans are wondering what has gone wrong with their country; the war in Vietnam rages…
Amazulu
The year is 1818, and Shaka, the warrior king of the Zulus, is on the verge of consolidating a vast…
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