Kristen Hannum
The Red Horse (A Billy Boyle WWII Mystery)
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It’s 1944, and U.S. Army investigator Billy Boyle is a patient at Saint Albans, a high-security convalescent hospital outside London. Boyle is ...Read Review
The German Client: A Bacci Pagano Investigation
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Many of the features of this suspenseful, hard-boiled Italian noir, set in Genoa in 1944 and the present day, will be familiar to mystery ...Read Review
The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar
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From its first pages, The Last Assassin is a trustworthy and compelling read, qualities the best histories share. I thought I’d dipped ...Read Review
Under the Tulip Tree
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In racist Jim Crow Nashville, 1936, 23-year-old Lorena Leland’s family is in trouble. They still live in a grand house in a good ...Read Review
Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey
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Cher Ami, a champion racing pigeon—and heroic World War I veteran—has the first say in this novel. She’s speaking decades ...Read Review
The Last Bathing Beauty
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In the same way that Rosamunde Pilcher’s books often bring to life different generations of women meeting and surmounting challenges, Amy Sue ...Read Review
Don’t Let the Beasties Escape This Book!
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Young peasant Godfrey has a full day of chores, and his mother tells him not to disturb the artist who is painting a ...Read Review
Children of the Stars
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Jacob and Moses Stern’s well-known playwright parents have fled south from the Nazis, leaving the boys behind. This book begins on July 16, 1942, ...Read Review
Animalia: A Novel
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It takes all of a few paragraphs into Animalia to begin to suspect that the book might be a masterpiece. By the end ...Read Review
Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution’s Women
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Women are central in our visual imagination of the French Revolution – from the doomed Queen Marie Antoinette to Charlotte Corday, who stabbed the ...Read Review
