20th Century
The Skylark’s Secret
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In the late 1970s, Lexie Gordon returns home with her daughter, Daisy, to Aultbea, a small fishing village on Loch Ewe in the ...Read Review
A Deception at Thornecrest (An Amory Ames Mystery, 7)
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Weaver’s latest in the Amory Ames mystery series takes readers to Amory and Milo Ames’s English country home, Thornecrest, in the ...Read Review
Just Make Believe (Lady Adelaide Mysteries)
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It is 1925, and Lady Adelaide Compton has been invited to a house party for a few days in Gloucestershire. It should be a ...Read Review
The Light at the End of the Day
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In 1937 Krakow, Poland, Adam Oderfeldt, a wealthy Jewish entrepreneur, commissions a portrait of his younger daughter, Alicia, as her present for her 12th ...Read Review
A Dangerous Goodbye (A Fen Churche Mystery)
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In 1944, land girl Fenella “Fen” Churche receives a cryptic letter from her fiancé, Arthur, stationed in France. The letter may be his last ...Read Review
Payback: A Novel
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Author/memoirist Gordon’s award-winning fiction often focuses on generational tensions and damage, and particularly the fraught relationships between mothers and daughters. She ...Read Review
Of Darkness and Light (Soli Hansen Mysteries)
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A cleaning woman is found dead behind an art dealer’s shop, a piece of paper bearing the word “chiaroscuro” in her hand. ...Read Review
Wrong Train to Paris
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Jennifer Moore takes a break from her popular Regency romance novels to pen a title for the new Romance on the Orient Express ...Read Review
Britain’s Wartime Evacuees: The People, Places and Stories of the Evacuations Told Through the Accounts of Those Who Were There (Voices from the Past)
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The impact of mass air raids on civilian targets was the great unknown at the outset of WW2. Pre-war exercises seemed to prove ...Read Review
The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus
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Set in the Çırağan Palace in Istanbul in 1903-1905, this novel, written by a direct descendant, chronicles the lengthy gilded imprisonment and ...Read Review