Simon & Schuster
The Elixir of Death
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AD 1195. ‘Crowner John’ – otherwise the splendidly-named Sir John de Wolfe, black-haired and frequently bad tempered – is confronted by an abandoned ship and ...Read Review
The Secret Supper
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Leonardo da Vinci is the patron of thrillers these days – despite the fact that he was, and indeed one might argue still is, ...Read Review
The Chinatown Cloud Death Peril
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In 1937, the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression. For entertainment there was no television, only radio, the movies ...Read Review
Telegraph Days
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From Pulitzer- and Oscar-winning writer Larry McMurtry comes his latest picaresque about life on the American frontier. Our heroine is Nellie Courtwright, a ...Read Review
Day of the False King
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It is 1150 B.C. and Ramses, pharaoh of Egypt, needs the healing power of the Babylonian god, Bal-Marduk. He sends Semerket, his Clerk ...Read Review
The Diamond
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To while away the time on the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte’s companion-in-exile, Count de Las Cases, pens the ...Read Review
Escaping into the Night
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In her first book for a younger audience, Ms. Friedman does well. Escaping into the Night is a gripping telling of a little-known ...Read Review
Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial
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Billed as a cross between To Kill a Mockingbird and Inherit the Wind, this novel aims high and does not disappoint. Frances Robinson ...Read Review
The Fiercer Heart: A Novel of Love and Obsession
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In 1841, Lt. Philip Kearney returns to America from his service overseas to discover that Diana Bullitt, the southern belle he’d spent three ...Read Review
The Forever Street
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Originally published in 1984, this novel is an incredibly rich and heady brew that tracks the Spiegelglass family from 1873 to the annexation of Austria ...Read Review
