20th Century
The Dark Earth and the Light Sky
The enigmatic story of tormented British writer and poet, Edward Thomas, is given a new lease of life in this…
Miss Dimple Suspects
A mystery is brewing in Elderberry, Georgia, and Dimple Kilpatrick is hot on the trail. When Mae Martha Hawthorne is…
Villa Triste
In modern-day Florence, Italy, Inspector Alessandro Pallioti has his hands full investigating a series of execution-style murders. The victims, all…
A Way with Murder
“Secret St. Rain.” That’s how a character introduces herself on the first page of this wannabe hardboiled mystery set in…
The Boy I Love
The protagonist of this novel set in the aftermath of WW1, Paul Harris, has returned from the war, but his…
Siege 13
Editors' choice
For six weeks in the winter of 1944-45, the Soviet Army assaulted Budapest, defended by the German and Hungarian armies.…
Vengeance
Benjamin Black, pseudonym for Irish writer John Banville, has written number five in a series of crime noir novels featuring…
Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society
This story is told in the first person by 80-year-old Dora Witherspoon as she takes us back to Collier County,…
The Glitter and the Gold
In her autobiography, Consuelo Balsan, the former Duchess of Marlborough, describes with humor and insight the Gilded Age of her…
Be Still My Soul
When a stolen kiss leads to a shotgun wedding, 17-year-old Lonnie Sawyer trades an abusive father for an angry husband.…
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