Phyllis T. Smith
The Perfect Poison
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Lucinda Bromley is a botanist living in Victorian London. She has an apparently paranormal knack for detecting poisons which makes her quite a ...Read Review
Abandon
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In 2009, Abigail Foster, a journalist enticed by the prospect of a good story, is recruited by her estranged father, a history professor, to ...Read Review
Tightrope: Six Centuries of a Jewish Dynasty
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Twenty years ago, journalist Michael Karpin began to write the life story of a successful Brazilian businessman who was a Holocaust survivor. He ...Read Review
The Last Divine Office: Henry Vlll and the Dissolution of the Monasteries
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Beginning in 1536, claiming the loftiest motives, Henry VIII began the dissolution of the monasteries of England. As Geoffrey Moorhouse makes plain in this ...Read Review
The Help
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In 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, Skeeter, a young white aspiring journalist, comes home from Ole Miss and decides to document the struggles of African-American ...Read Review
Execution Dock
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William Monk, hero of a series of Victorian crime novels by Anne Perry, is a favorite of mine because he is an unusually ...Read Review
To Hold The Crown: The Story of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
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This novel, a reissue of Uneasy Lies the Head, published in 1982, tells the story of the reign of Henry VII and his struggle ...Read Review
City of the Dead: A Seven Wonders Novel
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When Pharaoh’s chief wife is found dead, Hemiunu, the Grand Vizier who oversees the building of the Great Pyramid, is suspected of ...Read Review
The Fall of the Templars
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In this novel, set in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, Will Campbell, a Knight Templar, returns to Europe after the fall ...Read Review
Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon
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What could a brilliant, wealthy young woman do in Victorian England if marriage did not entice her, and domestic spinsterhood could not contain ...Read Review
