Editors' Choice

Drood

By Dan Simmons - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical FictionMystery/Crime

  In 1865, Charles Dickens, returning from a holiday with his mistress and her mother, is involved in the disastrous railway accident at Staplehurst. ...Read Review

The Great Lover

By Jill Dawson - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

  The island of Tahiti holds a fascination for troubled souls. Gauguin lived there in the 1890s. So too, in the early months ...Read Review

A Quiet Flame

By Philip Kerr - Published 2008Published 2009

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

Framed as a war criminal, ex-SS officer Bernie Gunther is forced to flee to Argentina with the likes of Adolph Eichmann for company. ...Read Review

A Beautiful Place to Die

By Malla Nunn - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

South Africa, 1952. Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper is sent to investigate the murder of Afrikaner police officer Captain Willem Pretorius in the remote town ...Read Review

Silent on the Moor

By Deanna Raybourn - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

Widowed Lady Julia Grey returns in this third outing to openly pursue Nicholas Brisbane, a private investigator she first encountered over her husband’...Read Review

The Book of Night Women

By Marlon James -

Genres:

LiteraryThriller

The Book of Night Women is a beautifully written, sweeping tale of Jamaican slavery set in the early 19th century. The story centers ...Read Review

Galway Bay

By Mary Pat Kelly - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical FictionSaga

Ireland, 1848: Blight has killed the potato crop for the third time in four years, there’s no work or food, the rents are ...Read Review

The Last Dickens

By Matthew Pearl - Published 2009

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

If you love reading Charles Dickens, this novel will be heaven-sent. If you’re not a big fan of Dickens, you will be ...Read Review

The Help

By Kathryn Stockett - Published 2009

Genres:

In 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, Skeeter, a young white aspiring journalist, comes home from Ole Miss and decides to document the struggles of African-American ...Read Review

The Glass of Time

By Michael Cox - Published 2008

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

Esperanza Gorst is an orphan, raised in Paris by her guardian, the mysterious Madame de l’Orme. When she is in her teens, ...Read Review

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