John R. Vallely
The Man Who Never Returned
Fintan Dunne’s retirement life in sunny Florida has not proven very satisfying to the veteran of the NYPD and wartime…
Strange Images of Death
Commander Joe Sandilands of Scotland Yard is faced with a curious problem as he motors through France in 1926. Joe,…
Infamous
George “Machine Gun” Kelly was one of the well known, but curiously now forgotten gangsters of the lawless Midwest in…
The Barbary Pirates
Followers of the intrepid American naval officer Ethan Gage will be pleased to know their hero has set sail once…
IF THE DEAD RISE NOT
Interwar Berlin police officer Bernie Gunther has had his share of troubles in Philip Kerr’s March Violets, A German Requiem,…
Jacob’s Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the Civil War
The American Civil War has always served as an irresistible magnet for fictional accounts of families struggling with questions of…
A Case of Spirits
Peter Lovesey richly deserves the many awards and honors bestowed upon him since his premier novel, the extravagantly titled Wobble…
The Tick of Death
Peter Lovesey richly deserves the many awards and honors bestowed upon him since his premier novel, the extravagantly titled Wobble…
God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
Fed up by Western views of the Crusades as episodes featuring European greed, racism, and religious bigotry unleashed upon an…
Devil’s Dream
Certainly one of the most curious events in historical fiction in decades is the decision by a writer to pen…
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