Amy Watkin

Murder at the Serpentine Bridge (A Wrexford & Sloane Mystery)

By Andrea Penrose - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

It’s 1814, and London is preparing for the peace celebrations, when major European sovereigns, politicians, and military leaders will gather for a series ...Read Review

The Wind Rises: Book 1 of The Alma Series

By Holly James (trans.) - By Timothee de Fombelle - Published 2022

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Children/Young Adult

In this middle-grade novel, book one of the planned Alma Trilogy, readers follow teenagers Alma and Joseph on very different adventures and await ...Read Review

A Christmas Deliverance: A Novel

By Anne Perry - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Perry’s Victorian mystery, her 20th Christmas novella, features Will “Scuff” Monk, former Thames River mudlark and adopted son of Thames River Police ...Read Review

Remember the Ladies

By Gina L. Mulligan - Published 2016

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Four-year-old Amelia Cooke is orphaned in 1861 Montana, and grows up wondering why women are so often denied the same privileges as men. Amelia’...Read Review

While You Were Mine

By Ann Howard Creel - Published 2016

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It’s the end of World War II and nurse Gwen Mullen is enjoying the V-J Day celebrations on the streets of New ...Read Review

The Kindness of Enemies

By Leila Aboulela - Published 2015

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Literary

Aboulela’s book moves between 2010 Scotland and mid-19th-century Russia and Dagostan. Imam Shamil, the Muslim leader in Dagostan, is determined to end ...Read Review

Jane and the Waterloo Map: Being a Jane Austen Mystery

By Stephanie Barron - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

It is November 1815, and Jane Austen has been summoned to Carlton House, the Prince Regent’s residence. She wonders if there’s any ...Read Review

Nelly Dean: A Return to Wuthering Heights

By Alison Case - Published 2015Published 2016

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Whether you’ve read Wuthering Heights a hundred times or never picked it up, you are going to like this book. Set in ...Read Review

The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach

By Pam Jenoff - Published 2015

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Adelia Monteforte was a teenager in 1941 when her mother and father sent her from their home in Italy to stay with an uncle ...Read Review

The Pretender’s Lady

By Alan Gold - Published 2015

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This book spans the second half of the 18th century, beginning in the 1740s, just as Bonnie Prince Charlie arrives in Scotland for ...Read Review