Lucille Cormier
The Parisian Prodigal
Alan Gordon sets the sixth of his Theophilus the Jester mysteries in the city of Toulouse, ruled by Count Raimon…
Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style
Wild West doesn’t begin to describe the antics Bill Neal recounts in this well-researched volume. From the late 19th century…
Sand Daughter
This is the first U.S. release of Sand Daughter, originally published in 2007 in the U.K. It is a sweeping…
Chambers of Death
It is 1284, and no one at the Earl of Lincoln’s castle is having a happy sex life. Those who…
The Cavalier of the Apocalypse
The story begins prophetically on All Hallows Eve, 1785, as Aristide Ravel, an impoverished young political writer, wanders into the…
The True Adventures of Charley Darwin
The book is very much a record of Charles Darwin’s youth from the time he is a nine-year-old going off…
The Magician’s Death
Editors' choice
The Magician’s Death is the 14th of Paul Doherty’s Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries. Playing on the rivalry between England’s Edward…
Banquet at Delmonico’s: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
Banquet at Delmonico’s is a densely packed history of the rise of social Darwinism in the United States between 1871…
The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
Jonathan Kirsch does not mince words or cater to delicate sensibilities in this well-documented history of the Inquisition’s 600 year…
Forsaken Soul
What could be more peaceful than summer in an English seaside village—the seaside village of Tyndal, for instance? A summer…
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