Martha Hoffman
Marley: A Novel
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Marley was not dead, to begin with. This novel undoes the famous first line of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, presenting the story of ...Read Review
The Bird King
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The year is 1491, and Granada, the last foothold of Islamic rule in Iberia, is under siege. Food is running short, but the inhabitants ...Read Review
Traitor’s Codex (A Crispin Guest Mystery)
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Crispin Guest, former baron of Sheen, has come down in the world after falling out with King Richard II. Now living in a ...Read Review
The Inquisitor’s Niece
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Alonso Malki is a convert to Christianity whose father has been condemned by the Inquisition for relapsing into Judaism. Fearful that his father’...Read Review
The Golden Lynx (Legends of the Five Directions)
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In 1534 Russia, Nasan, the 16-year-old daughter of a Tatar khan, witnesses the vendetta murder of her brother, only to be married into the ...Read Review
Sons of Blackbird Mountain (A Blackbird Mountain Novel)
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Aven Norgaard, the young Irish widow of a Norwegian shipwright who had plucked her from a workhouse years ago, arrives in 1890 Virginia to ...Read Review
The Road to Magnolia Glen
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Kiera Young and Quinn O’Shea “meet cute” on the boat from Ireland to Mississippi in 1792. Kiera, her two younger sisters in tow, ...Read Review
Song of Isabel
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Lady Isabel, daughter of Lord Theodoric of Narbonne, is twelve years old when she is attacked by soldiers and rescued by a stranger ...Read Review
The Secrets of Time and Fate
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In present-day London, Jackdaw Hammond’s medical records after her attempted suicide indicate multiple organ failure, a diagnosis inconsistent with her jumping into ...Read Review
The Queen’s Prophet
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Gazing out from Velasquez’s Las Meninas, the enigmatic Maribarbola challenges the viewer with her thoughtful expression and genial dignity. She was one ...Read Review
