Jinny Webber

A Novel Disguise (A Lady Librarian Mystery)

By Samantha Larsen - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

A clever play on Regency-style novels, this book is a murder mystery including, as the title suggests, gender disguise—in a complicated version. ...Read Review

The Ring Breaker

By Jean Gill - Published 2022

Genres:

Adventure

This story is set in the 12th century, when Viking and Christian culture overlapped in the Norse world, some of it based on ...Read Review

Olav Audunssøn III: Crossroads

By Sigrid Undset - By Tiina Nunnally (trans.) - Published 2022

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Newly translated by Tiina Nunnally, Crossroads is the third volume of Sigrid Undset’s tetralogy Olav Audunssøn, a Norse saga of sorts. ...Read Review

The Valley (The Druid Chronicles, 2)

By A. M. Linden - Published 2022

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In Linden’s fictional eighth-century Britain, Saxon Christians dominate while descendants of Celtic Druids survive in the secluded valley of the title. Set ...Read Review

Pilgrims

By Matthew Kneale - Published 2022

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In 1289, the century before Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales takes place, a band of pilgrims leaves England not for Canterbury but to Rome, picking ...Read Review

The Queen In The Mound (The Norsewomen)

By Johanna Wittenberg - Published 2022

Genres:

Saga

A Norsewoman in the 9th century AD, Ragnhild is captain of the Raider Bride. She’s married to the Irish lord and one-time ...Read Review

A Rip Through Time

By Kelley Armstrong - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeTime-slip

Armstrong’s novel requires the suspension of disbelief: a woman nearly murdered and left for dead wakes up 150 years earlier. Just before she’...Read Review

My First and Only Love

By Aida Bamia (trans.) - By Sahar Khalifeh - Published 2021

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The narrator, Nidal (whose name in Arabic means “struggle”), returns to Nablus in Palestine in the early 21st century, after decades of exile ...Read Review

Last Call at the Nightingale (Last Call at the Nightingale, 1)

By Katharine Schellman - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

A murder mystery set in New York City in 1924, Last Call at the Nightingale features the saucy Vivian Kelly. She and her sister, ...Read Review

Charlotte’s Story

By Carolyn Korsmeyer - Published 2021

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Spin-offs from Pride and Prejudice generally focus on Elizabeth and Darcy and occasionally the other Bennet sisters. Instead, in Charlotte’s Story Carolyn ...Read Review