16th Century
The Food Taster
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This work is purported to be the innovative, sassy memoir of Ugo Difonte, a food taster in 16th century Italy. Ugo, unwillingly pushed ...Read Review
The Shadow of God
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The historical setting of this novel is not the heyday of the Crusades, but three centuries later. This is good to keep in ...Read Review
The Bawdy Basket
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Nicholas Bracewell, stage manager of the Elizabethan actors’ troupe, Westfield’s Men, has a serious problem when a young, distracted fledgling actor, Frank ...Read Review
Cities of Gold
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Set both in 1989 and 1549, but almost entirely in the American Southwest, this tells the story, supported by extracts of actual primary-source documents, of ...Read Review
All Night Awake
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Biographical FictionHistorical Fantasy
All Night Awake is a sequel to Ill Met by Moonlight, which described young Will Shakespeare’s first encounter with Faerie. He hadn’...Read Review
Day Of Wrath
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In her first historical crime novel, Iris Collier focuses on two seemingly discrete events: the murder of protagonist Nicholas Peverell’s loyal steward ...Read Review
Face Down Across The Western Sea
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In this, the seventh Susanna, Lady Appleton mystery, Emerson involves her characters in a convoluted plot by England to prove its claim to ...Read Review
The Twentieth Wife
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In Mughal India, even the most powerful emperor always had one deadly enemy: his own son. In the late 1500s, the great Akbar ...Read Review
Fire, Burn!
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France in the sixteenth century represents a turbulent struggle for power between Charles de Bourbon and Francis I. Charles desperately needs funds to ...Read Review
The Queene’s Cure
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A young Queen Elizabeth is the sleuth in this medical mystery, fourth in a series. At this time, the causes of disease and ...Read Review
