Sarah Johnson
The Mozart Girl
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart enjoys beautiful gowns, birthday gifts, and sweets as much as any 12-year-old girl, but she has an extraordinary ...Read Review
The Satapur Moonstone (A Perveen Mistry Novel)
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Perveen Mistry’s position as the only female lawyer in 1921 Bombay keeps her services in demand. When Sir David Hobson-Jones, the governor’s ...Read Review
The Almanack
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Saturated with beautiful images of the natural world in mid-18th century rural England, Bailey’s third mystery evokes a time when people ...Read Review
Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella
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The eight stories and one novella in Holladay’s collection prove that it’s possible to capture the essence of a place, characters, ...Read Review
Radio Underground
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Based on actual Cold War letters, Littman’s fast-moving debut is infused with a simmering tension reflecting its setting: Budapest, Hungary, on the ...Read Review
The Song Peddler of the Pont Neuf
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Paul Gastebois, a “confidential inquirer” in Paris of 1788, usually avoids taking on missing person cases. “People in Paris are lost all the time, ...Read Review
The Valentine House
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The Valentine house, a wooden chalet overlooking the valley of Hext in the French Alps, is given the Greek name “Arete” (meaning excellence ...Read Review
The Vanishing Man: A Prequel to the Charles Lenox Series (Charles Lenox Mysteries)
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In this second in a prequel trilogy to the Charles Lenox detective series (after The Woman in the Water), our protagonist, aged twenty-six, ...Read Review
The Latecomers
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With understated elegance, The Latecomers braids many coming-of-age stories into one. First, we have Brighid “Bridey” Molloy, an Irish teenager whose fiancé dies ...Read Review
Up From Freedom
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Drawing on research into his mixed-race family history, which he unexpectedly discovered as an adult, Grady evokes the complicated psychological terrain of antebellum ...Read Review