Ann Oughton
The Third Section
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It is 1855, and after 40 years of peace in Europe, war rages in the Crimea. Sevastopol is in ruins as Dimitry Alekseevich Danilov faces ...Read Review
The Hand of Fatima
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In 1564, after years of Christian oppression, the Moors of Granada exact a terrible revenge against their masters: after the ensuing bloodbath, the white ...Read Review
The Book of Crows
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In ancient China of 2000 years ago, a young girl, Jade, is kidnapped and sold to the Whorehouse of a Thousand Sighs. Having ...Read Review
Any Survivors?
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The narrator is a refugee in London in 1939. Turfed out of his lodgings and finding himself homeless with five pennies in his pocket ...Read Review
The Secret Crown
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King Ludwig II of Bavaria was a unique ruler and a solitary figure, choosing to live by night and shun society. Obsessed with ...Read Review
The Villa Triste
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It is 1943 in Florence and sisters Caterina and Isabella (Issa) Cammaccio are delighted to hear the news that Italy has signed the armistice. ...Read Review
Justinian, The Sleepless One
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This is the story of Uprauda Ystock, son of an illiterate peasant who might have been destined to spend his life working the ...Read Review
Jack the Ripper’s Secret Confession, the Hidden Testimony of Britain’s First Serial Killer
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Under lock and key at the British Library are eleven volumes of the writings of a Victorian gentleman known only as Walter. An ...Read Review
The Postmistress
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This atmospheric novel follows the intersecting lives of three American women during 1940 and 1941. Iris James is the postmaster (she doesn’t believe in ...Read Review
The Cemetery of Secrets
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In the cemetery of San Michele a corpse is exhumed. Rizzo has been paid to supervise this grisly task and remove from the ...Read Review