Kristina Blank Makansi
The Dead Don’t Bleed
“Live free, and the rest will follow.” That was the mantra that Liv, Lieutenant Junior Grade Voight’s sometime-girlfriend, lived by.…
The Vow
The Vow is the story of Anna and Szymon, a devout girl and a young village priest who cling to…
A Gift for Guile
Set in Victorian London, the second installment in Alissa Johnson’s Thief Taker series is a delightful historical romance that won…
A Place Called Winter
Loosely based on the experiences of the author’s great-grandfather, A Place Called Winter is an evocative tale of a timid…
All Waiting Is Long
Sisters. Good relationships or bad, they are fraught with rivalry, jealously, and loyalty. Such it is with Violet and Lily…
The Last Days of Magic
Mark Tompkins’s fantasy novel is a roiling cauldron of Celtic and Biblical mythology, with everything from fallen angels and faeries,…
The Singer from Memphis
In this sixth installment in Gary Corby’s Athenian Mystery series, Nicolaos and his wife, Diotima, a priestess with an independent…
The Plague of Thieves Affair
This is the fourth in the Carpenter and Quincannon series written by husband-and-wife team Muller and Pronzini. It opens with…
The Letter Writer
Dan Fesperman’s The Letter Writer is a classic example of old-fashioned noir with gritty detectives and seedy police officers, plenty…
The British Lion
In The British Lion, sequel to The Darkest Hour, author Tony Schumacher has created a believable and terrifying alternative world…
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