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Lovers’ Knot

By Donald L. Hardy - Published 2009

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Lovers’ Knot, Donald Hardy’s beautifully rendered and entertaining historical romance, is set in Cornwall, England, in 1892 and 1906. It artfully relates the story ...Read Review

Tangled Web

By Lee Rowan - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Romance

It’s 1816 in Regency London, and sodomy is a hanging offense. This is a world in which gentlemen who prefer the company of ...Read Review

No Law in the Land

By MICHAEL JECKS - Published 2009

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Mystery/Crime

Make no mistake about it: in Michael Jecks’s latest Knights Templar Mystery, No Law in the Land, there is no law and ...Read Review

Off Season

By Anne Rivers Siddons - Published 2009

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Literary

With Off Season, Anne Rivers Siddons demonstrates again why she is lauded as one of America’s most popular and respected literary writers. ...Read Review

Tomato Rhapsody

By Adam Schell - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

Set in 16th-century Italy, this first novel by Adam Schell is advertised as “a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit.” In it, ...Read Review

Betraying Season

By Marissa Doyle - Published 2009

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Children/Young Adult Historical Fantasy Romance

Betraying Season, the second entry in Marissa Doyle’s entertaining series featuring 19th-century English twin sisters Penelope and Persy Leland, takes readers to ...Read Review

The Miracles of Prato

By Laura Morowitz - By Laurie Albanese - Published 2009

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Romance

Set in 15th-century Italy, The Miracles of Prato relates the fictionalized story of the scandalous romance between real-life Renaissance painter and Carmelite monk ...Read Review

A Dead Man in Barcelona

By Michael Pearce - Published 2008

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Mystery/Crime

Set in 20th-century Barcelona, this is the fifth entry in Michael Pearce’s “a dead man in” series, featuring series protagonist Sandor Seymour ...Read Review

Veil of Lies

By Jeri Westerson - Published 2008

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Mystery/Crime

Poor Crispin Guest! In Jeri Westerson’s debut novel, set in 14th-century London and described as “a medieval noir,” Crispin is slapped, backhanded, ...Read Review

The Enchantress of Florence

By Salman Rushdie - Published 2008

Genres:

Historical Fantasy Literary

Wearing a multicolored leather coat, a Florentine traveler arrives at the emperor of India’s court armed with magic tricks, a secret, and ...Read Review