20th Century
The Italian Girl’s Secret
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This story offers an intensely powerful view of wartime Naples and surrounding towns from an Italian woman’s perspective. By 1943, it has been ...Read Review
The Battle of Tsushima
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The battle of Tsushima, Russia’s crushing naval defeat by the Japanese in 1905, set the course for the 20th century. It destroyed Russia’...Read Review
A Haunting at Holkham
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This is a country house murder/mystery, but whereas lovers of the genre are usually content with the artificiality of the setting, Anne ...Read Review
Death at the Old Asylum (Inspector Lucas Rocco)
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There is this rather eventful night, in the late summer of 1964, when the police of Amiens find themselves confronted with a multiple shooting ...Read Review
Until Leaves Fall in Paris
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Unbeknownst to each other, two Americans in Paris become resistance workers. He is Paul Aubrey, an industrialist, engineer, owner of Aubrey Automobile, and ...Read Review
Count the Nights by Stars
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Inspirational RomanceMystery/Crime
This dual-timeline novel takes us to Nashville, Tennessee in both 1897 and 1961. In 1961, Audrey Whitfield is home from college after the death of her ...Read Review
A Game of Fear (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries, 24)
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This, the 24th in the Inspector Rutledge series, is set in south-eastern England in the late spring of 1921. Rutledge’s superior officer and ...Read Review
Four Thousand Days (A Margaret Murray mystery, 1)
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Archaeology focuses on the past, not on the dawn of the 20th century. So, for lecturer Margaret Murray (her doctorate appears merely decorative), ...Read Review
Murder Under Her Skin: A Pentecost and Parker Mystery
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It’s 1946 New York, and the female detective duo of Lillian Pentecost and Willowjean “Will” Parker have been investigating crimes together now for ...Read Review
The Magician
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Tóibín’s biographical novel of Thomas Mann begins in the Hanseatic port of Lübeck in 1891, where Thomas, overshadowed in his ...Read Review
