17th Century

In Silence Cries the Heart

By Catherine Hughes - Published 2023

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This is a dual-timeline novel that tells a passionate love story. In 17th-century Scotland, a cattle thief does not normally get the chance ...Read Review

The Bedlam Cadaver (A Hunt and Hooke Novel)

By Robert J. Lloyd - Published 2024

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Thriller

1681, Restoration London. The king’s brother James, a Catholic, is heir to the throne, but there is rumoured to be a ‘black box’ ...Read Review

The Putnams of Salem: A Novel of Power and Betrayal During the Salem Witch Trials

By Greg Houle - Published 2024

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Houle takes the reader to a 17th-century New England village thrown into turmoil after witchcraft accusations were made by a circle of young ...Read Review

Spectral Evidence

By Jude Pittman - Published 2024

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Mystery/Crime

Set in Newfoundland in 1692, Spectral Evidence brings us to a world where cultures and faith traditions are learning to coexist. Charlotte Jaddore is ...Read Review

The King’s Messenger

By Susanna Kearsley - Published 2024

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AdventureMystery/Crime

In the opening decades of the 17th century every prominent person who died was poisoned—if we are to believe the multitudinous pamphlets ...Read Review

A Plague of Serpents (Daniel Pursglove)

By K. J. MAITLAND - Published 2024

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The year is 1608, three years after the Gunpowder Plot. The plague which had seemed to be subsiding is returning, spreading panic and fear ...Read Review

Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles

By Peggy Joque Williams - Published 2024

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During the mid-1600s, Sylvienne d’Aubert spends her childhood in Amiens, France, attending convent school, going to the bakery, climbing trees and ...Read Review

An Outbreak of Witchcraft: A Graphic Novel of the Salem Witch Trials

By Deborah Noyes - By M. Duffy (illus.) - Published 2024

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Children/Young Adult

The story of what took place in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1690s gets the graphic novel treatment in this visually arresting retelling. When ...Read Review

Plague Thieves

By Caroline Fernandez - Published 2024

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Children/Young Adult

In 1665 London, Rose lives with her parents and brother Lem in an apartment over the family’s spice shop. She delights in helping ...Read Review

The Court of Miracles (Vampyria Saga)

By Françoise Bui (trans.) - By Victor Dixen - Published 2024

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Historical Fantasy

In the second Vampyri novel, Diane de Gastefriche is now squire to the vampyre King Louis XIV, a reward for foiling a plot ...Read Review

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