Bethany Latham
The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Sir Walter Raleigh is given a charter by Elizabeth I, and in 1587, 115 English colonists land on Roanoke Island on what is now the ...Read Review
The Gallows Pole
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George III notwithstanding, there’s only one king in West Yorkshire: “King” David Hartley, leader of a local gang of “coiners.” A ragtag ...Read Review
The Unforgotten
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In 2006, Mary’s life is falling apart. She has been diagnosed with breast cancer, and mental instability asserts itself; she is increasingly estranged ...Read Review
The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
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The Roaring ‘20s were a time of ebullience and adventure: ticker-tape parades for heroes such as Lucky Lindy, with his solo flight across ...Read Review
The Darkling Bride
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Hold up your hand, and tick off the Gothic conventions one by one: atmospheric, crumbling family home; older, brooding yet ridiculously handsome hero; ...Read Review
West
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This slim volume houses a simple “journey” plot within an incredibly nuanced presentation. Sometime after the Lewis and Clark Expedition, widower Cyrus Bellman ...Read Review
The Authentic William James
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1913. Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator for the Chancery in Lunacy, is usually charged with investigating madmen of the British aristocracy (a group whose penchant ...Read Review
Fear and His Servant
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In 18th-century Serbia, Count Otto von Hausburg visits Belgrade with his servant, Novak. Von Hausburg is not what he seems—or perhaps exactly ...Read Review
The Maze at Windermere
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Five stories ebb and flow, anchored by their location: Newport, Rhode Island. In the present day, a washed-up tennis player’s drunken wager ...Read Review
The Hunger
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Most are familiar with the tragedy of the Donner-Reed Party, a group of pioneers who set out on the trail to the West ...Read Review