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2020

The Fatal Flying Affair (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery)

By T. E. Kinsey - Published 2020

Genres:

In the cozy mystery category, the Lady Hardcastle series is one of the best. Erudite, funny, and so very British, the series follows ...Read Review

The Emperor’s Exile (Eagles of the Empire 19)

By Simon Scarrow - Published 2020

Genres:

Adventure

This is the latest book in the saga of Macro and Cato, books which have taken them far and wide in the Roman ...Read Review

Helga Makes a Name for Herself

By Megan Maynor - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Helga may be young, but she has one ambition—to be a warrior just like Ingrid the Axe. Although her parents downplay her ...Read Review

Balkan Glory: Thomas Kydd 23

By Julian Stockwin - Published 2020

Genres:

Adventure Military Nautical

This is the latest episode in the career of Captain Sir Thomas Kydd and his ship Tyger. The action takes place in the ...Read Review

Murder is in the Air: A Kate Shackleton Mystery

By Frances Brody - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Business mishaps, muddled business accounts, a gallivanting heir apparent and right-hand man send Barleycorn Brewery owner William Lofthouse to private investigator Kate Shackleton ...Read Review

The Canterbury Murders

By E.M. Powell - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

It is Easter, 1177, and the King’s Clerk Aelred Barling and his assistant Hugo Stanton are on pilgrimage, making their way to the ...Read Review

A Home on Wilder Shores

By Susan Posey - Published 2020

Genres:

Adventure

The story opens in the mid-Atlantic in 1751 on a ship of immigrants to the American colonies. Ardath and Gwyn Rhys’s mother disappeared ...Read Review

Wishes and Wellingtons (Wishes and Wellingtons, 1)

By Julie Berry - Published 2020

Genres:

Adventure Children/Young Adult Historical Fantasy

Maeve Merritt, aspiring adventuress and champion of eyerolls and flying fists, is the bane of Miss Salamanca’s School for Upright Young Ladies—...Read Review

The Gates of Athens: Book One in the Athenian series

By Conn Iggulden - Published 2020

Genres:

Adventure Military

About 490 BCE, the aging Persian King Darius, and his young son, Xerxes, stand on a hilltop overlooking the smoldering ruins of Persian-controlled Sardis. ...Read Review

Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan: A Novel of a Life in Art

By Deborah Reed - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary Saga

Appropriately subtitled ‘A Novel of a Life in Art’, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan tells the life of 93-year-old artist Violet Swan. ...Read Review