Sarah Johnson
Murder in Disguise
The freshness of Jessie Beckett’s narrative voice remains undimmed even after four books. In her latest excursion into amateur detection,…
A Secret History of Witches
Fans of Gothic historical sagas should be drawn to this multi-generational novel about a family of Breton witches whose talents…
The Sisters of Alameda Street
Which of the four Platas sisters of Alameda Street is Malena’s mother? Lorena Hughes’ debut novel is nonstop entertainment with…
Beyond Absolution
In the politically roiled Irish city of Cork in 1923, Reverend Mother Aquinas’s latest investigation is tragically personal. An old…
The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie
One might say Susanna Moodie is to Canada what Laura Ingalls Wilder is to the United States: both were early…
Sawbones
Defiantly working in an unnatural female profession in 1871 Manhattan, Dr. Catherine Bennett has rich society women as clients and…
A Daughter’s Courage
Renita D’Silva takes the popular parallel-narratives format to a new level with her engrossing saga intertwining four women’s stories. They…
Miss Burma
Editors' choice
Miss Burma opens with an attention-grabbing prologue that sees fifteen-year-old Louisa, a young woman of mixed racial heritage, crowned in…
After the Bloom
In her contemplative first novel, Shimotakahara explores the long-lasting aftereffects of a disgraceful historical episode: the incarceration of people of…
The Saturday Evening Girls Club
The Saturday Evening Girls Club, a real organization in Boston’s North End in the early 1900s, was set up by…
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