20th Century
Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses
This is the seventh in McPherson’s 1920s Scottish mystery series featuring Dandy (Dandelion) Gilver. Dandy receives a phone call from…
The Lowland
Editors' choice
Jhumpa Lahiri’s stunning novel, shortlisted for the 2013 Booker Prize, tells the story of two brothers, Subhash and Udayan Mitra.…
The Unmarked Road
Sgt. John “K-Bar” Caleb is one tough Marine. But after suffering serious wounds in Vietnam, the highly decorated vet winds…
The Little Tokyo Informant
Editors' choice
September 1941, and J. Edgar Hoover is preoccupied with using Hollywood to promote the image of the FBI. To this…
Death at the Clos du Lac
Picardie, 1964. At the exclusive – and reclusive – Clos du Lac sanatorium, a grisly discovery is made in the…
Yudl and Other Stories
Layle Silbert grew up in Chicago, the daughter of Russian Jews. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in literary…
The Governess of Highland Hall
It’s 1911, and Julia Foster is back in England after 12 years of missionary work with her parents in India.…
The Girl in Berlin
In 1951, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, both high-level British diplomats, were exposed as Soviet spies and fled to Moscow.…
The Seeing
Set in the 1950s, this story is narrated mainly by 13-year-old Lizzie, who lives in a small coastal town, in…
Hardcastle’s Traitors
1915. With England in the midst of war, Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle gets pulled from the streets of London into…
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