Fantasy
Elisha Magus
Elisha, a barber-surgeon and powerful magus in an alternative 14th-century London, has killed the king and now finds himself at…
Egg and Spoon
Set in the last years of the Russian monarchy, Egg and Spoon is a fanciful mix of history, folklore, philosophy,…
The Table of Less Valued Knights
In these dark days it’s a relief to come across a novel providing such fun. Well-written, with a firm grasp…
Anathema
When a body washes up on Nantucket’s Eel Point Beach in 1856, the local doctor requests assistance from Harvard medical…
The Falconer
Set in 1844 Edinburgh, this is the story of Aileana Kameron, a young noblewoman whose life has been wrecked by…
The Quick
England in the latter half of the 19th century. The novel begins conventionally enough with orphaned brother and sister James…
A Barricade in Hell
This is the second in a series of paranormal mysteries set in San Francisco after the onset of WWI. Delia…
The String Diaries
A centuries-old evil stalks Hannah Wilde, an evil that purports to love her, just as it has all the women…
Alias Hook
Jensen flips the Peter Pan story we are all familiar with, making Captain Hook the sympathetic hero and Peter a…
A Plunder of Souls: The Thieftaker Chronicles
In the third in a series set in 18th-century Boston (after Thieves’ Quarry, 2013), D. B. Jackson, better known as…
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