Kristen McDermott
The Knight’s Tale (A Geoffrey Chaucer mystery, 1)
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Trow has written several historical mystery series, including one featuring the playwright Christopher Marlowe, so turning his attention to another English literary luminary, ...Read Review
The Family
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There is family, and then there is Family. Krupitsky takes a familiar American narrative—growing up in the Mafia in the middle of ...Read Review
The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (Montague Siblings, 3)
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Lee completes her award-winning trilogy about the fascinating upper-class Montague family, whose adventures take them across early 18th-century Europe and beyond. The third ...Read Review
Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen (US/CAN) / The Language of Food (UK)
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The author’s love of old cookbooks has inspired a delightful imagining of the origins of the first truly famous English recipe book, ...Read Review
The Last Debutantes: A Novel
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When we first meet Valerie de Vere Cole, she is living the “poor little rich girl” lifestyle. The real-life daughter of disgraced society ...Read Review
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, 2)
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Joshi enjoyed terrific success with her debut novel, The Henna Artist, when it was chosen for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine book club ...Read Review
Oddity
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Alternate HistoryChildren/Young Adult
Brown’s fans have to wait a long time between novels, but each one is worth it. Readers who adored his award-winning “culinary ...Read Review
Testimony
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Reading this thoughtful novel reminds today’s readers that nostalgia for the mid-20th century often glosses over the racism and sexism that ...Read Review
The Show Girl
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Olive Shine is a Ziegfeld Girl, living the high life in New York City in the final moments of the pleasure-loving Roaring Twenties. ...Read Review
When We Meet Again
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British book publishers during World War II had to contend, not only with the normal uncertainties of the trade, but with paper rationing, ...Read Review