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Candlemoth
I approached Candlemoth with some apprehension. Its framing device is the story of a man on Death Row in 1982,…
The Royal Physician’s Visit
In 1768 a magnetic, handsome German physician named Struensee became royal physician to King Christian VII of Denmark. Struensee was…
Wolves of the North
The fifth entry in distinguished classicist and military historian Harry Sidebottom’s Warrior of Rome series sees the hero Ballista on…
I, Hogarth
Renowned artist William Hogarth, whose paintings and engravings illustrated the unfortunate and decadent lives of 18th-century London residents, is born…
The Island of Second Sight: From the Applied Recollections of Vigoleis
When protagonist/author Vigoleis’s brother-in-law sends a message from Mallorca that reads, “Am dying. Zwingli,” Vigoleis and his wife, Beatrice, set…
The Balloonist
It’s seldom you read a book that’s both funny and terrifying, deeply unsettling and deeply satisfying, all at once. The…
Moments Captured
Nineteenth-century photographer Edward Muybridge, whose mentor was Civil War photographer Mathew Brady, set up a traveling studio in a Conestoga…
Wicked Pleasures
Praeger & Son banking company in New York City had been successful for many decades thanks to Frederick Praeger III,…
The Philosopher Prince
Waters’ sequel to Cast Not the Day is set between 355 and 361 A.D., and finds the characters of Drusus…
Dead Men
Dual-time novels seem to be in vogue these days. Some feel contrived and out of balance, shifting mechanically between decades…
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