Judith Starkston
Elegy to Murder: A Medieval Mystery
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Elegy to Murder is the latest medieval mystery featuring Prioress Eleanor and Brother Thomas. Royal succeeds in creating sympathy for her characters and ...Read Review
Untrue Till Death (Master Mercurius Mysteries)
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Set in 1674 in the Netherlands, this second in series offers an intricate, intellectual murder puzzle to solve amidst the academic debates of the ...Read Review
The Silver Shooter: A Rose Gallagher Mystery
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Historical FantasyMystery/CrimeWestern
The Silver Shooter is the exhilarating and entertaining third in Lindsey’s Rose Gallagher historical fantasy mystery series. Set in 1887, it opens in ...Read Review
The Garden of Promises and Lies
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The Garden of Promises and Lies is the third book in Paula Brackston’s Found Things time-travel series. In this book, Xanthe, the ...Read Review
Sword of Kings: A Novel (Saxon Tales)
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In Sword of Kings, the twelfth book in Bernard Cornwell’s popular Saxon series, Uhtred of Bebbanburg has grown older and wiser, but, ...Read Review
Love and Death Among the Cheetahs (A Royal Spyness Mystery)
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Love and Death Among the Cheetahs is the thirteenth in Rhys Bowen’s Royal Spyness Series. Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her new, handsome ...Read Review
The Last Tsar’s Dragons
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Jane Yolen and her son, Adam Stemple, bring readers the Russian Revolution with dragons. No one is better positioned to tell a dragon ...Read Review
Lovely War
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In Lovely War’s opening, Hephaestus traps Aphrodite and Ares in a golden net and puts them on trial for infidelity—a Homeric ...Read Review
A Brightness Long Ago
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Guy Gavriel Kay is the master at writing fantasy that is richly based in a particular historical time and place, and, at the ...Read Review
The Victory Garden
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Set in England during the final stretch of the First World War, The Victory Garden focuses on Emily Bryce, a naïve but ...Read Review