Sarah Johnson
All We Were Promised
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Lattimore’s debut exudes originality in its characters, plot situations, and especially in its well-chosen setting of 1830s Philadelphia, “the self-proclaimed cradle of ...Read Review
The House on Biscayne Bay
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Cleeton’s dual-period mystery intermixes tropical heat and gothic chills in a satisfying way as two women, decades apart, face up to shocking ...Read Review
A Home for Friendless Women
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Kelly E. Hill’s debut reads like a living, breathing scrapbook about the women from the titular Home, a religious organization from late 19...Read Review
The Other Gwyn Girl
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Raise your hand if you realized royal mistress Nell Gwyn had an older sister. If not, you’re not alone. Nicola Cornick has ...Read Review
A Body at the Dance Hall (London Ladies’ Murder Club)
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Kudos to Marty Wingate for writing an engaging cozy mystery whose solution is a clever and unpredictable puzzle. A Body at the Dance ...Read Review
A Nest of Vipers: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery
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Offering an even twistier and broader-scope plot than the first two books in Nagendra’s series, A Nest of Vipers is dominated by ...Read Review
The Great Divide
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The Great Divide is the epic novel of the Panama Canal’s construction you didn’t know you’d been missing. This major ...Read Review
The Romanov Brides: A Novel of the Last Tsarina and Her Sisters
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Decades before the Bolshevik Revolution and the Romanov dynasty’s terrible end, the future Tsarina Alexandra and her older sister, Grand Duchess Elizabeth, ...Read Review
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
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Seeing this biographical novel about Hattie McDaniel, you may initially assume it traces her journey from her humble Wichita origins through her groundbreaking ...Read Review
The Diamond and the Duke (All the Duke’s Sins)
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Lady Eleanor “Ellie” Balfour has loved Wesley Audley, illegitimate son of the Duke of Bentley, ever since he saw her practicing swordplay on ...Read Review
