Kristen Hannum
A Promise Given
A Promise Given is an entertaining romp through the social mores of 1930s Chicago and England, with the American upper…
The Overstory
Editors' choice
Author Richard Powers, in The Overstory, weaves together eight stories of people with stories of trees. Solid and simultaneously magical—a…
The Rufus Spy: A Medieval Mystical Mystery
This is the eighth book in Alys Clare’s Aelf Fen series, set in East Anglia in the reign of King…
The War I Finally Won
Editors' choice
The War I Finally Won reads like a childhood classic. I suspect it’s destined to become just that for today’s…
Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers
There’s an intriguing mystery from the outset in Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers: readers know that young Ella knows…
Himself
Editors' choice
Mahoney is a 26-year-old Dubliner in 1976, searching for how he ended up in an orphanage and, equally, what happened…
The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts
Oliver Cromwell Pitts, born decades after the Restoration deposed his grim namesake, awakens in the middle of the night with…
Cast the First Stone: An Ellie Stone Mystery
It’s February 1962, and Ellie Stone, a reporter for a small paper in upstate New York, gets sent to Los…
The Baker’s Secret
Editors' choice
Emma, 22, is the baker with a secret. She lives in occupied Normandy in the months and hours leading up…
The Kill Fee: Poppy Denby Investigates
It’s October 1920 in London, and young reporter Poppy Denby finds herself in the midst of murder, Bolshevik intrigue, stolen…
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