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The Flowers of the Field
Originally published in the early 1980s, The Flowers of the Field is the first part of Sarah Harrison’s Flower Trilogy…
Hannah & Emil
“Herr Becker, we must find you some shoes, and then supper,” says Hannah to Emil, while shaking his hand after…
The Memory of Scent
Fleur and Babette, two women in 1883 Paris, move in the same circles of the Impressionist movement but with very…
Truth Dare Kill
Private investigator Danny McRae is damaged physically as well as emotionally after his service as an SOE agent operation with…
Bitter Water
July heat rises in post WWII Glasgow. A city councilor dies an agonizing death, his head buried in a bucket…
Royal Marriage Secrets
John Ashdown-Hill takes on all controversial British royal marriages in this work, well organized chronologically with particular focus on key…
Desolation Island
At heart an early 20th-century tale of adventure, Adolfo Garcia Ortega’s Desolation Island is a dense and meaty novel for…
Out of the Rat Trap
In Out of the Rat Trap, Austrian author Max Reisch details his experiences in the German army during World War…
Unsinkable
Set on board the Titanic, Unsinkable is a mystery that follows Arthur Beck, former Scotland Yard member looking to start…
Ginny Appleyard
On a bright, warm Sunday afternoon in September, 1934, Ginny Appleyard waits on a quay in a small fishing village…
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