WW1
Sabotage
The third in a trilogy (after Saara’s Passage, 2008), Sabotage continues the story of a Finnish-Canadian family during World War…
A Barricade in Hell
This is the second in a series of paranormal mysteries set in San Francisco after the onset of WWI. Delia…
An Unwilling Accomplice
It’s 1918 and Bess Crawford, of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, has just returned to London from France with…
The Storms of War
The strapline of this WW1 saga, the first of a trilogy, announces: “Atonement meets Downton Abbey”. The book begins in…
The Wild Dark Flowers
The Wild Dark Flowers is the second novel in the Rutherford Park series. It begins in 1915. Harry Cavendish, the…
Jack of Spies
Forsaking his popular World War II series (Masaryk Station, 2013), Downing starts anew in 1913, when war already looks inevitable.…
Refuse to Forget
Refuse to Forget is a First World War novel with a twist: the carnage of the field hospital. Harry Butler…
The Web and the Wing
The Great War is over, but nothing at Ardleagh Hall will ever be the same. Instead of coming home for…
The Secret Life of Violet Grant
This smashing summer read introduces two ambitious career women living fifty years apart: Violet Schuyler Grant, an American atomic physicist…
Blue Ravens
Anishinaabe brothers Basile and Aloysius Beaulieu take on the character of sacred trickster spirits in this novel set mostly in…
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