Multi-Period
The Orpheus Descent
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At first sight this is a conspiracy novel of a type familiar over the last ten years. An archaeologist/researcher-of-some-sort discovers a treasure/...Read Review
Orphan Train
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Irish-American Niamh is left an orphan in the 1920s when her family dies in a tenement fire. The self-satisfied and pious leaders of ...Read Review
The Bookman’s Tale
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Lovett’s enjoyable homage to books and bookishness opens, fittingly, in that literary magnet known as Hay-on-Wye in Wales. In 1995, Peter Byerly, an ...Read Review
The Storyteller
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Sage Singer thinks she doesn’t have much to live for after losing both parents and becoming disfigured in a car wreck; she ...Read Review
Bristol House
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Beverly Swerling’s latest work is a gripping dual-period novel that is partly a ghost story. Events in Tudor London affect the modern-day ...Read Review
The Center of the World
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J. M. W. Turner, the famed 19th-century British artist, is a master of color with a fiercely independent and iconoclastic personality. This is ...Read Review
The Ashford Affair
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Willig, author of the popular Pink Carnation series, departs from Napoleonic era, flower-monikered spies and the academics who research them for this complicated, ...Read Review
The Firebird
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When art gallery assistant Nicola Marter takes hold of a small, carved bird, known only as the Firebird, she can tell at once ...Read Review
Seduction: A Novel of Suspense
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Three dysfunctional situations in three different centuries are bound together by the ties of drug use and paranormal dabbling in novelist M.J. ...Read Review
The Positively Last Performance
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The Theatre Royal, Seashaw, has been closed for two years and mould is wreaking havoc with the décor. Only ghosts live here ...Read Review
