2022
Julia Prima (Roma Nova Thriller Series)
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This is a stunning historical novel set in the 4th century. Julia, the daughter of the ruler of the provincial town of Virunum, ...Read Review
Molly & the Captain
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This book takes its name from a picture of his two daughters made by the 18th-century painter William Merrymount. The other daughter in ...Read Review
The Glassmaker’s Wife
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The Glassmaker’s Wife is a novel of murder by arsenic, an illicit paramour, religious zealots, bewitched cows, and revenge. The murder is ...Read Review
Death to the Emperor
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Death to the Emperor is the latest offering from Simon Scarrow in his Eagles of the Empire series. In Britannia in AD 60, Governor ...Read Review
The Tale of Truthwater Lake
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In the too-hot, climate-changed summer of 2032, Polly and her brother are packed off to a favourite aunt who lives by an artificial lake, ...Read Review
The Railway Detective’s Christmas Case
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It’s December 1864, and an excursion train is forced to halt its journey through the Malvern Hills. Getting out to see what the ...Read Review
Lessons
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Roland Baines, aged 11, arrives in England with his parents. Having lived in Libya, his father in the British army posted there, Roland has ...Read Review
The Winter Guest
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Even before a mystery is established in his most recent novel, W. C. Ryan creates a suspenseful mood with the description of a ...Read Review
The Edinburgh Skating Club
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The story recounts how poet Alison Cockburn accepts a challenge from philosopher David Hume and his sister Katherine to bring her intellect to ...Read Review
What Child is This?
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During the Christmas holidays in London, Sherlock Holmes finds himself investigating two cases. A wealthy couple’s child has been the target of ...Read Review