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The Spook Lights Affair
In 1895 San Francisco, a debutante throws herself off a cliff during a festive party. Sabina Carpenter, a female private…
The Wily O’Reilly Irish Country Stories
Between writing seven popular novels of Irish life, Patrick Taylor – Ireland-born physician, sailor and medical researcher – has been…
Fingal O’Reilly, Irish Doctor
In 1936, Fingal is a newly-minted young doctor working for a “dispensary” in Dublin’s tenements, a kind of all-purpose health…
Ask Not
This is the third and presumably final entry in a trilogy on the JFK assassination which began with Bye Bye,…
Rising Sun, Falling Shadow
This novel is the sequel to The Far Side of the Sky and is set in Shanghai in 1943. Things…
Robert the Bruce
The youth of Robert I, King of Scots is described in this second of the Guardians series by Jack Whyte.…
Sold for Endless Rue
Robins takes the Rapunzel story, removes the fantasy elements, and places it in 13th-century Italy. Sold for Endless Rue does…
Hell or Richmond
North vs. South, Grant vs. Lee – what could be more engrossing? This novel, a followup to the author’s Cain…
The Lincoln Letter
I never miss the chance to read a Peter Fallon/Evangeline Carrington novel because Martin has the uncanny ability to seamlessly…
After Rome
The Romans have left Britannia. What remains on the island are disparate fragments of Roman British settlements and cities, roaming…
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