2010
Too Many Murders: A Carmine Delmonico Novel
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With a population of only 150,000, Holloman, Connecticut, isn’t technically large enough to have its own homicide department, but on April 3, 1967, Captain Carmine ...Read Review
The Lady in the Tower
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The demand for the Tudors seems inexorable. This is a detailed study of the closing days of the life of Anne Boleyn by ...Read Review
Requiem in Vienna
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In 1899 Vienna, the director of the Court Opera, conductor-composer Gustav Mahler, appears to be the intended victim of a series of accidents: first ...Read Review
Print the Legend
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Since I have never been a Hemingway fan, the plot of Print the Legend only mildly intrigued me. I was willing to be ...Read Review
The Book of Fires
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Jane Borodale’s stunning debut novel begins with that classic element of suspense, a countdown to an explosion—not so much of the ...Read Review
Fortunate Wager
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Caroline Fortune is a spirited young lady who nevertheless knows that she has to live within the conventions of Newmarket society. Her brother, ...Read Review
The Crimson Rooms
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In London in 1924, Evelyn Gifford is a young lawyer of thirty, a single woman living at home with her mother, aunt, and grandmother. ...Read Review
Lessons in French
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At age twenty-seven, having been jilted by three different fiancés, Callista Taillefaire believes her chances for love and marriage are past. Into ...Read Review
The Promise of Rain
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This is a moving novel about family, love and war. It is split between the viewpoint of an 11-year-old girl, Ethie, in 1962, trying ...Read Review
Scoundrel’s Kiss
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Ada of Keyworth is unusual for a medieval woman. Educated by her family, she’s adventurous, headstrong, and strikingly beautiful—but she’s ...Read Review
