Trudi E. Jacobson
The Hanover Square Affair
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This engrossing mystery is set during the Regency period. Captain Gabriel Lacey comes across a mob in a fashionable square, and tries to ...Read Review
Undertow
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This engaging, complex mystery takes place in Newfoundland in 1947, before it joined Canada as a province. The book’s prologue is a newspaper ...Read Review
Chasing Shakespeares
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Alternate HistoryMystery/Crime
“God is a librarian.” This enchanting thought appears in Chasing Shakespeares when something fortuitous or serendipitous occurs related to books and manuscripts. Joe ...Read Review
The Painter
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Alternate HistoryBiographical FictionMystery/Crime
This novel intertwines 17th century and present day plots. The 17th century story proposes a possible explanation for how Rembrandt might have come ...Read Review
The Battle That Stopped Rome
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Wells uses archaeological evidence, much of it new, to revisit the Teutoburg Forest battle in A.D. 9 between Roman troops under Publius Quinctilius ...Read Review
Still Life With Murder
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Nell Sweeney becomes governess to a Boston Brahmin family early in this mystery, which is set several years after the end of the ...Read Review
As Above, So Below
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Rucker has written an engrossing and affecting novel about the great painter Peter Bruegel. The book is divided into 16 vignettes, each of which ...Read Review
Lady Robyn
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This is the second book about Robyn Stafford, formerly of Hollywood, California, who is “currently” living in 1460 England. In the previous book, Knight ...Read Review
The Frozen Water Trade
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The fascinating story of how ice became a commodity, one in great demand not only in warm climates such as Cuba, India, and ...Read Review
Let Loose the Dogs
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This is the 4th book in Jennings’ mystery series set in late 19th century Toronto, featuring Acting Detective William Murdoch. Murdoch’s family ...Read Review