18th Century

The Danger of Desire

By Elizabeth Essex - Published 2011

Genres:

Romance

If a reader is looking for a sexy romance that has more than a thin wash of 1799 realism in it, one needn’t ...Read Review

The Scottish Prisoner

By Diana Gabaldon - Published 2011

Genres:

Adventure

I admit it – I am a major Diana Gabaldon fan and a particular devotee of her Lord John Grey character. To say I ...Read Review

The Power and the Glory

By William C. Hammond - Published 2011

Genres:

Nautical

The decade between the end of the American Revolution and the War of 1812 was a crucial challenge for the United States. Lacking a ...Read Review

Sup with the Devil

By Barbara Hamilton - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Barbara Hamilton’s third book in the Abigail Adams Mystery series is set on the cusp of the American Revolution, and her husband, ...Read Review

The Anatomist’s Apprentice

By Tessa Harris - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

In 1781, when young Lord Crick dies of convulsions, his sister Lydia seeks the help of Dr. Silkstone to ascertain the cause. Silkstone is ...Read Review

Call of a Distant Shore

By Corinne Hoebers - Published 2008

Genres:

Saga

Due to increasing unrest and violence in his birthplace of Hochdorf, Germany, in the 1750s, Michael Heber impulsively decides to join his newly ...Read Review

Fat Fingers

By Charlie White - Published 2010

Genres:

Adventure

Fatfingers, the name of the unlucky protagonist whose professionally wielded hammer struck his hand more than it did a nail, is the story ...Read Review

The Pearls of Tangier

By Mary Chiappe - By Sam Benady - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the third book in the Bresciano Mysteries series, but it works perfectly well as a standalone read. This particular novel is ...Read Review

Brothers in Arms

By Iain Gale - Published 2011

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

Readers will always be grateful to Bernard Cornwell for bringing the common soldiers, and the spectacularly uncommon Richard Sharpe, to life. Iain Gale ...Read Review

A Very Murdering Battle

By Edward Marston - Published 2011

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

This is the last of the Captain Rawson novels. The father of the hero, as followers of the series will know, was hanged ...Read Review