Judith Starkston
The Dervish
The novel, set primarily in Turkey, opens with a prologue set in 1961 after the Turkish military has crushed the…
The Tin Horse
Editors' choice
Elaine Greenstein is downsizing to a retirement home, but her life as a fierce civil rights lawyer is important enough…
Proof of Guilt
The fifteenth Inspector Rutledge mystery will not disappoint Todd fans and should encourage new readers. The plot, set between 1916…
Fear in the Sunlight
In Nicola Upson’s fourth Josephine Tey mystery, nothing is what it appears—no surprise with Alfred Hitchcock involved. “Hitch” thinks he’s…
The Chalice
Bilyeau’s first book, The Crown, brought us the determined but naïve Joanna Stafford, Dominican nun and daughter of a disgraced…
Holy Smoke
Ramsay’s mystery series set in Jerusalem in the 1st century CE combines skilled plotting with a lighthearted irreverence and sense…
The Plum Tree
Wiseman writes engagingly about WWII from the point of view of a seventeen-year-old German girl on the home front. At…
Her Father’s Daughter
In November 1945 in Southampton, England, Victoria Teglia reopens the Club Valetta, which her father had run until his death…
The Straw Men
Set in 1381, Doherty’s twelfth in his Brother Athelstan series pits the insightful Dominican and Cranston, Lord Coroner, against both…
Rav Hisda’s Daughter
Rav Hisda’s Daughter provides a wealth of historical detail about Jewish life in Babylon and Israel in the 3rd century…
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