2013
The Blood of Heaven
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The son of a fire-eating Baptist preaching his way across the post-Revolutionary backwoods, Angel Woolsack has learned his father’s trade well. In ...Read Review
Midnight in St Petersburg
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Set during the convulsions and upheavals of revolutionary Russia, this novel is centred around Inna Feldman, who decides to flee Kiev after witnessing ...Read Review
Blood from a Stone
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In her latest 1920s mystery (after Trouble Brewing, 2012), Gordon-Smith keeps intrepid writer/investigator Jack Haldean busy with a grisly killing on a train, ...Read Review
The Mannequin House
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This murder mystery is set in 1914, but the historical setting is not a strong element in its pages. It reads like Golden Age ...Read Review
The Keeper of Secrets
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The Keeper of Secrets brings together the stories of 14-year-old Simon Horowitz in Berlin in 1939 and 14-year-old Daniel Horowitz in present-day America. Simon ...Read Review
The Storycatcher
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In her first novel, Ghost on Black Mountain, Hite explored the culture of the Appalachian Mountains during the Great Depression through the voices ...Read Review
The Pirate Captain: Chronicles of a Legend
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Nathanael Blackthorne, the pirate captain of Lynne’s boisterous, hilarious debut, is not only a scourge of the mid-18th century West Indies ...Read Review
Plague: A Cross on the Door
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1665, London. It’s been a long, hot summer, and plague threatens. Nine-year-old Sam works for a shoemaker in one of London’s narrow, ...Read Review
Elizabeth’s Bedfellows
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Elizabeth Tudor faced dangers all her life. She was frequently ill, had rival claimants to the throne, was afraid of assassination by English ...Read Review
Millie’s Treasure
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Millie Jean Cope—heiress to the failing Cope fortune—wants only one thing: To be a scientist. But in 1880s Tennessee, science is ...Read Review
