2009

The Branch and the Scaffold

By Loren D. Estleman - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical FictionWestern

This novel is based on the true story of the infamous “hanging judge,” Judge Isaac Parker. In 1875 Parker arrives in the western town ...Read Review

Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr John H. Watson

By Lyndsay Faye - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

If Sherlock Holmes had been real rather than just a work of fiction, his expertise would have most certainly been requested to solve ...Read Review

Decision and Destiny

By DeVa Gantt - Published 2009

Genres:

Saga

The sisters who co-write as DeVa Gantt have hit their stride with the middle volume of their Colette trilogy (originally self-published as one ...Read Review

The Ingenious Edgar Jones

By Elizabeth Garner - Published 2008Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

Picture this: A meteorite spills a shower of stars into the sky one cold February night in 1847 Oxford, England. That same night, Edgar ...Read Review

The Hoard of Mhorrer

By M.F.W. Curran - Published 2009

Genres:

Historical FantasyThriller

Although not a straight historical novel, The Hoard of Mhorrer effectively blends fantasy with real historical events. This is a struggle of light ...Read Review

A Visible Darkness

By Michael Gregorio - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis continues to grapple with his duties as a Prussian official in a land under the heel of Napoleon’s occupation ...Read Review

The Swan Maiden

By Jules Watson - Published 2009

Genres:

EpicHistorical Fantasy

Every civilization has its Helen of Troy legend, and for Ireland during the Iron Age, that would be the story of Deirdre: a ...Read Review

A Duke to Die For

By Amelia Grey - Published 2009

Genres:

Romance

Lucien Trent Blakewell, fifth Duke of Blakewell, Blake to his friends, is surprised to find a beautiful young woman, obviously a proper lady, ...Read Review

The Other Half of Life

By Kim Ablon Whitney - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Everyone tells fifteen-year-old Thomas Werkmann that he’s finally escaping Nazi Germany on the MS St. Francis, bound for Cuba, but the gifted ...Read Review

The Seance

By John Harwood - Published 2009

Genres:

LiteraryThriller

John Harwood, the Australian author of The Ghost Writer, won the 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel. Professor of English for ...Read Review