2020
A Splendid Ruin
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Set shortly before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, this highly recommended and immersive novel reminds us to be careful what we wish for. Arriving ...Read Review
To The Dark (A Simon Westow Mystery 3)
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This is the first book by this author I’ve read, but it works well as a standalone historical mystery, as the author ...Read Review
Point Zero
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Point Zero tells three separate stories concurrently. Although they are intercut with each other, they deal with different people at different times and ...Read Review
Stranger on the Home Front
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Stranger on the Home Front begins in California in 1916. When the book opens, Margaret Singh is a carefree schoolgirl whose father is Indian ...Read Review
Dirty Shirt
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1914: an innocent abroad, New Englander Daniel Wyndham comes to Tralee, County Kerry, in search of the Irish heroes of legend, especially as told ...Read Review
Malcolm and Me
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In 1974 Philadelphia, thirteen-year-old Roberta Forest calls Thomas Jefferson a hypocrite for being a slaveowner, and her eighth-grade teacher, Sister Elizabeth, retaliates by telling ...Read Review
Sins as Red as Scarlet: A Devon Town in Turmoil
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This novel takes a new approach to the events surrounding the last “witch hangings” in England. Bideford, Devon was a town in turmoil. ...Read Review
Water Sight (Last of the Gifted)
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Powell’s Last of the Gifted series covers a slice of history already immortalized in Sharon Kay Penman’s Welsh Trilogy and Edith ...Read Review
The Winds of Morning (Donovan Family Saga)
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The famine of the 1840s has decimated Ireland, and young Molly O’Brien has replaced her father, working a 16-hour day breaking rocks ...Read Review
Death in the Time of Pancho Villa: A Rose in Old El Paso Mystery
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On a spring evening in 1911, young Rose Westmoreland, with her luggage and a camera named Caroline, steps off a train in El Paso ...Read Review