Ann Chamberlin
The Frost on His Shoulders
The 1930s in the Spanish Pyrenees, very close to the French border. I found it easy to believe an isolated…
The Midwife’s Tale
In June 1644, York midwife, widow, and gentlewoman Bridget Hodgson’s “gossip” Esther Cooper is accused of poisoning her strict, abusive…
Sutton
Pulitzer Prize winner Moehringer does not tell you a couple of things in his brief author’s note about the facts…
A Sunless Sea
Early on a November morning in 1864, while rowing from his duties on the Thames, William Monk of the River…
The Aleppo Codex
A codex called the Crown begins life in 930 AD Tiberius at the hand of a rabbinical scribe. It is…
Harvest of Rubies
A generation after Esther made her own entry into the Persian court (couldn’t Esther be around somewhere as a grandmotherly…
The Sumerton Women
When her parents die of the sweating sickness, eight-year-old Cecily becomes the ward of the family living at Sumerton Castle,…
The Family Corleone
The Family Corleone is a novel based on the screenplay Mario Puzo left upon his death. The Godfather II saw…
The Immortality Engine
Multiples of a single criminal are turning up dead at crime scenes in the streets of London. Veronica’s visionary sister…
Cain
This is the English edition of the last novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, who died in 2010. So…
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