2003
Jane and the Ghosts of Netley
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Seventh in Barron’s series of historical suspense novels featuring Jane Austen as an amateur sleuth, this is a well-crafted melding of wit, ...Read Review
By Sorrow’s River
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Volume Three of the Berrybender Narratives, set in the 1830s, picks up McMurtry’s saga of the randy English lord’s multicultural entourage ...Read Review
Murder in the Pleasure Gardens
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An engaging premise – Regency dandy Beau Brummell as amateur sleuth – appears slightly tarnished and tired in this latest installment of Stevens’ mystery series. ...Read Review
The Water Dancers
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The Water Dancers vividly brings to life the days of the decayed grandeur of summer homes on the water, be they on the ...Read Review
Four Spirits
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Set in Birmingham, Alabama, during the turbulent civil rights movement of the 1960s, this novel is a powerful reminder that terrorism is by ...Read Review
Ghost Riders
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Set during the Civil War in the mountains of North Carolina, Ghost Riders portrays a little-known and seldom-researched aspect of the war. When ...Read Review
When Philosophers Were Kings
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This U.S. Civil War novel is based on true stories of the author’s ancestors. Socrates Best, the black sheep of the ...Read Review
Red River
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The Gettysburgs and Bull Runs of other novels set in the U.S. Civil War are a different theatre from this novel, set ...Read Review
Pharos: A Ghost Story
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On Jacob’s Rock, a remote lighthouse on the coast of Scotland, a young woman is washed up on shore in the early 19...Read Review
Monkey Hunting
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Ordinary people exist and endure lives punctuated by extraordinary events shaping subsequent actions and reactions. Cheng Pan, a young Chinese man dreaming of ...Read Review