Franca Pelaccia
The Codebreaker’s Secret: A WWII Novel
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The Codebreaker’s Secret has dual timelines. In the 1943 plot, Isabel Cooper tries to prove her worth as the only female codebreaker at “...Read Review
A Girl During the War
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It’s Italy, 1943. Marina Tozzi returns home to find her father killed by Nazis for harboring a Jewish artist. Although she hadn’t ...Read Review
Sisters of Night and Fog: A WWII Novel
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Sisters of Night and Fog starts and ends in 1995, but the novel mostly spans the years of WWII, covering two true-life heroines and ...Read Review
Murder Under Her Skin: A Pentecost and Parker Mystery
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It’s 1946 New York, and the female detective duo of Lillian Pentecost and Willowjean “Will” Parker have been investigating crimes together now for ...Read Review
The Stolen Lady: A Novel of World War II and the Mona Lisa
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The Stolen Lady has dual timelines and three points of view. In 1939 France, Anne Giuchard, a young typist at the Louvre, is asked ...Read Review
A Most Clever Girl: A Novel of an American Spy
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It’s 1963, and the Cold War era. Catherine Gray believes Elizabeth Bentley has killed her mother. She shows up at Elizabeth’s home ...Read Review
Becoming Leidah
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Becoming Leidah is set in 19th-century Norway at a time when Christianity coexisted with beliefs in pagan or folkloric gods. The people of ...Read Review
The German Nurse
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The German Nurse takes place during WWII on Guernsey from 1940 to 1945. Military personnel are evacuated from the island to fight on the mainland, ...Read Review
The Devil’s Pawn (Faust 2)
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It’s 1518 in Europe, a time when kings are made, and the church wields spiritual as well as economic power. Johann Faust is ...Read Review
Surviving Savannah
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One hundred and eighty years after the steamship Pulaski exploded at sea, history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to curate a museum collection ...Read Review
