2008
The Betrayal Game
Robbins’s Professor Mikhal Lammeck travels to Cuba in 1961 at the opening of this novel by the author of The…
Touchstone
Laurie R. King gave us the brilliant recreation of Sherlock Holmes with more depth than Conan Doyle ever mustered in…
Seduced by a Spy
It’s 1812, and England is at war with Napoleon. Mrs. Merlin’s Academy for Select Young Ladies, disguised as a finishing…
The Commoner
In 1959, lovely young Haruko becomes the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family when she weds the…
Winter in Madrid
A bestseller in the United Kingdom, C.J. Sansom’s thriller is now available in the U.S. Readers may recognize Sansom for…
The Seeker
The Seeker is the story of the unusual relationship between Madeleine Slade, a British woman, and Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi believes…
The Expeditions
Editors' choice
Sixteen-year-old Elisha Stone is elated after joining a scientific expedition that is to explore Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It is the…
The Black Dove
Editors' choice
The long and the short of the Amlingmeyer brothers are back with a roar for their third adventure, this time…
Death Was the Other Woman
Reading a good noir detective novel is like watching an old movie on a sleepless, rainy night. One is actually…
The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street
In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster. Eight years previously he had lodged with the…
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