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How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, 1)

By Kristen Perrin - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

A dual-timeline murder mystery stocked with colorful characters, this is a fun page-turner with a lot of atmosphere. In the present-day timeline, Annie ...Read Review

Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein (US) / Mary: Or, the Birth of Frankenstein (UK)

By Anne Eekhout - By Laura Watkinson (trans.) - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

This impressionistic novel tracks the influences that led Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein. It takes place in two timelines: Cologny, Switzerland, in 1816, where ...Read Review

The Secret of the Lady’s Maid (A Useful Woman Mystery)

By Darcie Wilde - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In London in 1820, political and personal intrigue bring together police investigator Adam Harkness and the indefatigable Rosalind Thorne, who help the rich solve ...Read Review

Let Us Descend

By Jesmyn Ward - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

Young Annis, an enslaved girl in the antebellum South, meets a series of misfortunes and is thrust into ever more hellish circumstances in ...Read Review

Again and Again

By Jonathan Evison - Published 2023

Genres:

LiteraryTime-slip

Geno, an elderly man living in an assisted living facility, believes that he has lived many lives over the course of more than ...Read Review

The Ghost Theatre

By Mat Osman - Published 2023

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In a fantastical yet mostly recognizable Elizabethan London, teenage Shay, a member of a bird-worshipping religion, joins up with a troupe of boy ...Read Review

Enter the Body

By Joy McCullough - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young AdultLiterary

The conceit of this young-adult narrative, told almost entirely in verse, is that several characters from Shakespeare’s dramas gather in a room ...Read Review

The Lost Wife

By Susanna Moore - Published 2023

Genres:

Western

Sarah, a luckless woman in mid-19th century America, flees her abusive husband, leaving her daughter behind. She ends up in Minnesota, where ...Read Review

Hang the Moon

By Jeannette Walls - Published 2023

Genres:

The plot of this Prohibition-era tale borrows heavily from the real-life history of the Tudor court. The Elizabeth I figure is the spunky ...Read Review

The Book of Goose

By Yiyun Li - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

Two teenage friends in 1950s rural France navigate a stultifying existence. Fabienne is original, bright, and unpredictable; Agnès follows her lead. The ...Read Review