Katherine Mezzacappa

Roman Mornings

By Matson Taylor - Published 2026

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Rome, 1970s: Clemmie, a forty-something technical translator, acquires a Vespa, and on its maiden run crashes into Monty, a young carpenter working for ...Read Review

The Toscanini Conspiracy

By Filippo Iannarone - By Lori Hetherington (trans.) - Published 2026

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Mystery/Crime

Piazze, Tuscany, 1935: A respected doctor is murdered, but the truth about his death is obfuscated for fourteen years. Based on a true story, ...Read Review

Spider, Spider

By L. C. Winter - Published 2026

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Thriller

London, 1857: Spider, survivor of a private asylum, casts her bone sticks with the aid of her pet crow, and plots vengeance from within ...Read Review

Mistress of Dartington Hall (Daughters of Devon)

By Rosemary Griggs - Published 2025

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Devon, 1587: News arrives at the remote manor house of Gawen Champernowne that the Armada is on its way to Plymouth. Gawen, though, is ...Read Review

The Insanity Inspectors

By Martin Campbell - Published 2025

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Inverness, 1864: Campbell’s novel is inspired by what was known as the ‘Lunacy Act’ which came into force in Scotland in 1858, establishing Lunacy ...Read Review

The Rumbling of the Waters (The Restoral Trilogy)

By Richard G Dennis - Published 2025

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Mystery/CrimeThriller

Bergamo, 1923: In this second volume of Dennis’s Restoral trilogy, Renzo Guidici, loyal blackshirt, philanderer, spv, and ultimately murderer, is sent to investigate ...Read Review

Love in the time of the Medici

By Pnina Shinebourne - Published 2025

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Genoa, 1602: Twelve-year-old Livia Vernazza, daughter of an ailing mattress-maker, threatens to jump out of a window rather than marry her father’s choice ...Read Review

Elizabeth and Ruth

By Livi Michael - Published 2026

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Manchester, 1849: Elizabeth Gaskell, whose novel Mary Barton has brought her both praise and opprobrium, visits a sixteen-year-old Pasley – the only name she is ...Read Review

Worktown

By Bill Hodson - Published 2025

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Bolton, 1938: the anthropologist, Tom Harrisson, one of the three founders of the Mass Observation project, persuades a naïve former public schoolboy and ...Read Review

The Bloomsbury Murder (Blitz Detective)

By Mike Hollow - Published 2025

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Mystery/Crime

London, 1941: this is the tenth novel in Hollow’s Blitz Detective series, in which Detective Inspector Jago investigates the murder of a Canadian ...Read Review