Kristen Hannum
A Bedlam of Bones
This mystery is the latest in a series, Bones in the Belfry, A Load of Old Bones, Bone Idle, and…
Promise the Night
Editors' choice
Anyone who has ever read the gorgeous West with the Night by Beryl Markham may doubt the need for a…
Reign of Madness
Veteran author Lynn Cullen, author of The Creation of Eve, chose Juana la Loca, middle child of Spain’s Isabella of…
The FitzOsbornes in Exile
I was repeatedly drawn back to this book, only to remember (with a little shock of disappointment each time) that…
The Headhunter’s Daughter
A baby disappears in the Belgian Congo in 1945, and 13 years later a young white girl is “rescued” from…
Children and Fire
Hegi is a writer I’ve intended to read for some time now. I also intend to finish Madame Bovary some…
A Game of Lies
In this third book in a series, journalist Hannah Vogel, wanted by the Nazis, returns to Berlin, ostensibly to cover…
The Linen Queen
It’s 1941, and Northern Ireland is part of the Allied war effort. Across the bay, the Irish Free State is…
Blood of the Reich
Best-selling author Dietrich took a 1938 Nazi expedition to Tibet and changed the names to create a rip-snorting, intricately plotted…
The Tudor Throne
Beginning with the two sisters sitting at King Henry VIII’s deathbed, Purdy writes a pas de deux between the maturing…
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