Patrika Salmon

Barbary Coast

By Peter Smalley - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNautical

Avast m’hearties! All lovers of nautical tales in Hornblower fashion: here’s another series for you to enjoy. James Hayter is our ...Read Review

The Green Mill Murder

By Kerry Greenwood - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

Ah, wondrous Phryne Fisher, detective extraordinaire, Australian playgirl, and woman-about-town (circa the 1920s) is back. Wherever she goes, murder follows. Dancing at the ...Read Review

Beyond the Blue Hills

By Katie Flynn - Published 2006

Genres:

MilitarySaga

This is a little different from the usual saga. Two groups of people, one family who is Liverpool-based, the other family farming in ...Read Review

The Voyage of the Vizcaina

By Clemens Hoges (trans. Annette Streck) - By Klaus Brinkbaumer - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

The Voyage of the Vizcaina is a non-fiction book about Christopher Columbus’s last ship. Is the wreck found in the Bay of ...Read Review

Dark Hearts of Chicago

By Helen Rappaport - By William Horwood - Published 2007

Genres:

Thriller

Dark indeed. This 1893 version of Chicago is a thoroughly unpleasant place, violent, racist, sexist and corrupt, both politically and morally. Helen Rappaport and ...Read Review

Tilly True

By Dilly Court - Published 2006

Genres:

RomanceSaga

Tilly True is another of Dilly Court’s sagas set in Victorian London. It’s a big read, over 500 pages, spanning several years, ...Read Review

Sword and Blossom

By Momoko Williams - By Peter Pagnamenta - Published 2007

Genres:

Nonfiction

Sword and Blossom is subtitled “A British Officer’s Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman,” but in light of what Arthur Hart-Synnot actually ...Read Review

The English Horses

By William A. Luckey - Published 2007

Genres:

Western

The English Horses is subtitled “a Western story,” and that is what we have. This is the tale of Gordon Meiklejon, a younger ...Read Review

The Communist’s Daughter

By Dennis Bock - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Canadian writer Bock’s first novel, The Ash Garden, stunned the literary world, and his second only enhances his reputation. Here he writes ...Read Review

People of the Nightland

By Kathleen O'Neal Gear - By W. Michael Gear - Published 2007

Genres:

This is the 14th in this series of novels about American prehistory. Written by a husband-and-wife team of archaeologists who specialize in the ...Read Review