St Martin's Griffin

The Tudor Vendetta

By C.W. Gortner - Published 2014

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Brendan Prescott is steeped in intrigue once again in this newest installment in Gortner’s Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles. Gortner captures the religious ...Read Review

Jeeves and the Wedding Bells

By Sebastian Faulks - Published 2014

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What ho, the renowned scribbler Sebastian Faulks has jolly well gone and bunged out a rather decent tale involving that immortal pair of ...Read Review

The Venetian Bargain

By Marina Fiorato - Published 2012Published 2014

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It is the year 1576 on the Christian calendar, and the Ottoman Sultan means to take revenge on the Venetians for destroying his 300-ship ...Read Review

Servants’ Hall: A Real-Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance

By Margaret Powell - Published 2014

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Nonfiction

Servants’ Hall brings domestic service in 1920s England to life through the memoirs of Margaret Powell (1907-1984), author-narrator, and ‘below stairs’, kitchen maid ...Read Review

The Secret Daughter of the Tsar

By Jennifer Laam - Published 2013

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Alternate History

Laam’s book is a compelling speculative novel revolving around the doomed Romanov family. One of the more popular “wishful thinking” subjects of ...Read Review

Once We Were Brothers

By Ronald H. Balson - Published 2010Published 2013

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Elliot Rosenzweig is supposedly a survivor of Nazi persecution in Poland. He made it big after coming to America and, now elderly, is ...Read Review

The Inquisitor’s Wife

By Jeanne Kalogridis - Published 2013

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In 1481, Queen Isabella, Dominican friar Torquemada, and the Spanish Inquisition arrive in Seville. Many Jewish families, as well as conversos—the “New Christians”—...Read Review

The Children of Wrath

By Paul Grossman - Published 2013

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Thriller

This thriller, set in Depression-era Berlin, is the prequel to the action in The Sleepwalkers and features a younger Willi Kraus, married and ...Read Review

The Gilded Lily

By Deborah Swift - Published 2012

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Two teenage sisters, Ella and Sadie, escape from rural poverty to seek a living in Restoration London. We think we know what follows: ...Read Review

At the Mercy of the Queen

By Anne Clinard Barnhill - Published 2012

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Biographical Fiction

Margaret “Madge” Shelton of Norfolk, Anne Boleyn’s pretty 14-year-old cousin, becomes lady-in-waiting to the new queen, accompanied to court by her nurse ...Read Review