Serpent's Tail

Mrs. Gulliver

By Valerie Martin - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

Lila Gulliver is the madam of a sedate, respectable brothel on an unnamed tropical tourist island. This is a historical novel only in ...Read Review

The Disenchantment

By Celia Bell - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

During l’Affaire des Poisons in 1680 Paris, random circumstance draws five people into a web of murder and deception: Baronne Marie Catherine de ...Read Review

Melmoth

By Sarah Perry - Published 2018

Genres:

LiteraryThriller

Beware the reader delving into the wondrous world of Sarah Perry’s Melmoth without the time to finish this breathtaking novel in one ...Read Review

Graffiti Palace

By A. G. Lombardo - Published 2018

Genres:

LiteraryThriller

This visceral, often hallucinatory debut novel unfolds in August 1965, as Americo Monk, a seeker of codes and secret wisdom hidden in graffiti, makes ...Read Review

The Essex Serpent

By Sarah Perry - Published 2016Published 2017

Genres:

Literary

The 2016 UK edition of The Essex Serpent received widespread acclaim, and the novel is sure to garner an enthusiastic U.S. audience as ...Read Review

Constellation

By Adrien Bosc - By Willard Wood (trans.) - Published 2016

Genres:

Literary

This book is one of those strange mixes of fiction and non-fiction. Bosc carefully unravels the tragic fate of Air France’s Constellation ...Read Review

Saint Mazie

By Jami Attenberg - Published 2015

Genres:

Mazie Phillips is a neighborhood fixture in 1920s New York City. She’s the ticket taker at The Venice movie theater, she’s ...Read Review

The Evening Chorus

By Helen Humphreys - Published 2015

Genres:

On his first bombing mission in 1940, James Hunter’s plane is shot down over the English Channel. Captured by Germans, James spends his ...Read Review

The Sun is God

By Adrian McKinty - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Following a horrific massacre of African civilians, military policeman William Prior has had quite enough of the world. He contrives to get himself ...Read Review

The Girl in Berlin

By Elizabeth Wilson - Published 2013

Genres:

Thriller

In 1951, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, both high-level British diplomats, were exposed as Soviet spies and fled to Moscow. At the same time, ...Read Review