Mystery/Crime
Eyes at the Window
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Set on the Pennsylvania-Ohio frontiers and spanning 1810-1861 within the Amish world, the story’s igniting event is the killing of a baby. ...Read Review
Shooting the Sun
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In 1840, Selena Cott finds herself traveling the Santa Fe Trail with a painter, an eccentric Englishman, an adventurer, and a gruff wagon train ...Read Review
Lady Allerton’s Wager
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Ms. Cornick’s seventh book, Lady Allerton’s Wager is an enjoyable romp through Regency-era England. It is a romp with a touch ...Read Review
Moon’s Crossing
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Moon’s Crossing begins with the suicide of Jim Moon in New York City in 1914. A Civil War veteran, a husband and a ...Read Review
Stagestruck
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In 1898, librarian Gwen Barlow, her eccentric mother, and her teenage brother Preston abandon their quiet Ohio village for exciting new lives when Mrs. ...Read Review
The Tiger’s Mistress
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Andrea DaRif combines romance with history and mystery. Portia Hadley’s father, an absent-minded academic, has mysteriously disappeared. Not one to sit around, ...Read Review
Handsome Harry, or the Gangster’s True Confession
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
The novel opens on October 16, 1934. “Handsome Harry” Pierpont, the narrator, is to be executed in the morning. In a sort of swaggering jailhouse ...Read Review
Hard Sleeper
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This is one of the best historical novels I have read in a long time! Jane McPherson and her long-lost but newly-found daughter, ...Read Review
A Fugue in Hell’s Kitchen
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Second in the Katy Green series, once again the scene is set in 1930s New York City, this time at a school of ...Read Review
Five for Silver
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The year is 542 and the setting, once again, is Constantinople – this time, beset by plague and political turmoil. The Lord Chamberlain to Justinian, ...Read Review
