16th Century

The Food Taster

By Peter Elbling (trans.) - Published 2002

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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

By Anthony A. Goodman - Published 2002

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Adventure

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

By Edward Marston - Published 2002

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Mystery/Crime

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

By William K. Hartmann - Published 2002

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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

By Sarah A. Hoyt - Published 2002

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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

By Iris Collier - Published 2001

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Mystery/Crime

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

By Kathy Lynn Emerson - Published 2002

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Mystery/Crime

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

By Indu Sundaresan - Published 2002

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Biographical Fiction

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!

By Mallory Dorn Hart - Published 2002

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Time-slip

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

By Karen Harper - Published 2002

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Mystery/Crime

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