Bethany Latham

Tokyo Redux

By David Peace - Published 2021

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

Tokyo Redux centers around the mysterious death of Sadanori Shimoyama, President of Japanese National Railways, on July 5, 1949—when the beleaguered bureaucrat disappeared. He ...Read Review

In the Garden of Spite: A Novel of the Black Widow of La Porte

By Camilla Bruce - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical FictionMystery/Crime

Big Brynhild, now known as Nellie, escapes her harsh Norwegian village life for America, reluctantly leaving behind her sister, Little Brynhild. Little Brynhild, ...Read Review

The Residence: A Novel

By Andrew Pyper - Published 2020

Genres:

Thriller

Jane Pierce, wife of Franklin Pierce, is submerged in grief. Clever but always melancholic and unstable, Jane never wished to be First Lady; ...Read Review

Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës

By Isabel Greenberg - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

“None of this would’ve happened, if six hadn’t become four.” So Charlotte Brontë begins the story of how the remaining Brontë ...Read Review

Things in Jars

By Jess Kidd - Published 2020

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

Red-haired, sharp-witted Bridie Devine is an interesting woman; she’s been a lot of things in her life, the latest of which is ...Read Review

Beheld

By TaraShea Nesbit - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

American history reveres the Pilgrims, families seeking to escape persecution and freely practice their religion in the New World. Yet a colony devoted ...Read Review

The Warlow Experiment

By Alix Nathan - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

Enlightenment ideas and desire for personal acclaim influence reclusive, wealthy landowner and amateur scientist Herbert Powyss. He plans an experiment. How would complete ...Read Review

The Measure of a Man: A Novel of Leonardo da Vinci

By Howard Curtis (trans.) - By Katherine Gregor (trans.) - By Marco Malvaldi - Published 2019

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

In Renaissance Milan, Leonardo da Vinci is in a difficult position. Acknowledged by all as a genius, he has been commissioned by Ludovico “...Read Review

Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen: A Novel

By Dexter Palmer - Published 2019

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Popular 18th-century medical theory espouses the idea that a woman’s mind – what she sees and what her thoughts dwell upon – can have ...Read Review

The Glass Woman

By Caroline Lea - Published 2019

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Rósa Magnusdottir’s mother is ill, hungry and coughing away in the chill and mud of their croft in a late 17th-century ...Read Review