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Murder in Mayfair (A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery)

By Verity Bright - Published 2024

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Lady Eleanor Swift is cheerfully hovering above London in a hot air balloon when she catches sight of a murder taking place. However, ...Read Review

The Vow

By Jude Berman - Published 2024

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Biographical Fiction

The Vow is a fictionalized autobiography of Angelica Kauffman, a Neoclassical artist who carved out a successful career as a portraitist and history ...Read Review

Riddle of the Gods: A Viking Age Novel (Olaf’s Saga Book 4)

By Eric Schumacher - Published 2024

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It’s Spring of 977 CE when Olaf Tryggvason, renegade warrior-prince of Norway, sets sail on the Sea Wolf to plunder his way to ...Read Review

Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles

By Peggy Joque Williams - Published 2024

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During the mid-1600s, Sylvienne d’Aubert spends her childhood in Amiens, France, attending convent school, going to the bakery, climbing trees and ...Read Review

The Queen’s Lies: A Novel (An Agents of the Crown Novel, 4)

By Oliver Clements - Published 2024

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

Book four in the author’s Agents of the Crown series finds renowned alchemist and sometime-spy, Dr. John Dee, up to his neck ...Read Review

Vincent’s Women: The Untold Story of the Loves of Vincent van Gogh

By Donna Russo - Published 2024

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Biographical Fiction

Vincent’s Women tells the dramatic and little-known story behind the women in Vincent van Gogh’s life—the lovers, prostitutes, heartbreakers, caregivers ...Read Review

Highland Surrender (Sons of Sinclair, 5)

By Heather McCollum - Published 2023

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Romance

When Norse warrior Erik Halverson lands in Scotland with his band of Wolf Warriors, he has a mission: abduct Hannah Sinclair on the ...Read Review

The Sea’s Edge: The Atheling Chronicles: #4

By Garth Pettersen - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Saga

The year is 1030 when Harald, the second son of Engla-lond’s ruler, King Cnute, is tasked with a mission that will take him ...Read Review

The Wicked and the Dead

By J.A. Johnstone - Published 2024

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Western

Hack Long and his gang of outlaws were on the run when they stashed a fortune in stolen gold in Barstow, Texas, then ...Read Review

Shades of Death: Murder at the Court of Elizabeth I (Catrin Surovell Tudor Mysteries)

By Angela Ranson - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

Queen Elizabeth is no stranger to gossip or court intrigue, but in 1560, barely two years after taking the throne, her romantic attachment to ...Read Review

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