Editors' Choice

Faraway the Southern Sky

By Joseph Andras - By Simon Leser (trans.) - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

Readers walk along the streets of Paris, retracing the steps taken by Vietnamese leader Hô Chí Minh in the 1920s, noting the addresses ...Read Review

One Big Open Sky

By Lesa Cline-Ransome - Published 2024

Genres:

Western

In Mississippi in 1879, Lettie’s dad, Thomas, convinces her mother and siblings that they should pack and move far west to Nebraska, where ...Read Review

The Queen of War (The Norsewomen)

By Johanna Wittenberg - Published 2024

Genres:

Adventure

The epic Nordic saga, The Queen of War (Book 5 of The Norsewomen), continues the legendary tale of Queen Åsa from Tromøy, an ...Read Review

Rednecks

By Taylor Brown - Published 2024

Genres:

The little-known 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain is the vivid backdrop for Brown’s compelling story, which gives voice to the thousands of coal ...Read Review

The Order of the Furies: 1795 (The Wolf and the Watchman Book 3)

By Niklas Natt och Dag - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

This is the third in a trilogy set in 18th-century Stockholm, and a fitting finale to a tale that is pervasively dark, gripping, ...Read Review

The Beholders

By Hester Musson - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

1878: The body of a boy is pulled from the river Thames. He is suspected to be the missing child of Liberal MP Ralph ...Read Review

Three Times Buried

By Jane Smith - Published 2024

Genres:

Thriller

This gripping true crime thriller is crafted from a trial which took place in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1827. In 1826, young Meggy McKessar was hired ...Read Review

A Killing on the Hill

By Robert Dugoni - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

Nineteen-year-old William Shumacher (“Shoe”) works as an intern for Seattle’s only afternoon paper. On an early morning in 1933, Shoe gets tipped off ...Read Review

The House Filler

By Tong Ge - Published 2023

Genres:

Saga

It is 1918, in East-Central China. A woman contemplating marriage might have rosy thoughts. Instead, our extraordinary protagonist, Golden Phoenix, contemplates a Chinese saying: ‘...Read Review

Ostler: 1 (The Cambridge Hardiman Mysteries)

By Susan Grossey - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Cambridge, 1825. Former soldier Gregory Hardiman carries scars with him from the war against Napoleon—both emotionally and physically. He’s working as an ...Read Review

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