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2020

A Haven for Her Heart (Redemption’s Light)

By Susan Anne Mason - Published 2020

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In 1941 Toronto, Olivia Rosetti is released from a woman’s reformatory after having been banished by her family for conceiving a child out ...Read Review

The Way Back

By Gavriel Savit - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult Historical Fantasy Literary

Imagine a Chagall who works in words, not paint. His work is intricate, moving, whimsical, Slavic, Jewish, folkloric—but his colors are limited ...Read Review

Notorious (Rebels of the Ton)

By Minerva Spencer - Published 2020

Genres:

Romance

Despite the decidedly Victorian bustle on the lady’s silhouette featured on the cover, this is a Regency romance set in 1817. Drusilla Clare ...Read Review

Double Falsehood: A Shakespearean Thriller

By Vaughn Entwistle - Published 2020

Genres:

Thriller

In the White Hart Inn near Marlborough, England, Double Falsehood, a long-lost play by William Shakespeare, falls into the hands of present-day inn ...Read Review

Red Hands

By Colin W. Sargent - Published 2020

Genres:

Thriller

Red Hands opens like a thriller, and keeps up the tension, even as the narrative voice of Iordana Borila describes a golden, happy ...Read Review

The Mitford Trial (The Mitford Murders)

By Jessica Fellowes - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1933: Louisa Sullivan is newly married to a policeman who is responding to fascist uprisings in London, even during their wedding reception. Having previously ...Read Review

How to Avoid the Marriage Mart (Breaking the Marriage Rules)

By Eva Shepherd - Published 2020

Genres:

Romance

1893. Despite her mother’s unrelenting pressure, Lady Charlotte Fitzroy has ‘no interest in becoming a married woman, effectively giving up her independence and ...Read Review

The Finder of Lost Things

By Kathy Lynn Emerson - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Winter 1590. Blanche Wainfleet is known as a finder of lost things. Utilizing her strong deductive skills, she must now discover who murdered her ...Read Review

Where Every Man (Inspector James Given Investigations)

By Charlie Garratt - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Garratt shifts the setting for this fourth book in the Inspector James Given series from England to France in the months before the 1940 ...Read Review