Veronika Pelka
Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel
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Ian Fleming wrote only fourteen Bond novels, but new titles continue to be published, no doubt in part due to the enormous success ...Read Review
The Golden Lion: A Novel of Heroes in a Time of War
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The Golden Lion takes place in the last half of the 17th century, in the 30 years between Smith’s earlier novel Birds of ...Read Review
The Venetian Bargain
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It is the year 1576 on the Christian calendar, and the Ottoman Sultan means to take revenge on the Venetians for destroying his 300-ship ...Read Review
Death’s Icy Hand
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It is the winter of 1872, and a Russian grand duke and his large entourage are visiting the Wyoming Territory aboard a royal train. ...Read Review
Bloody Winter
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Bloody Winter has two protagonists, and each tells his story in alternating chapters. The first narrator is the series’ Detective Inspector Pyke, who ...Read Review
The Mirrored World
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The Mirrored World is a fictional memoir set in Russia just before and during the rule of Catherine the Great and details, with ...Read Review
Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune, Serving the Emperor 1788-1791
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Christoph Wolff is an eminent scholar, and in this nonfiction work offers new insights into the last four years of Mozart’s life. ...Read Review
Prague Fatale
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Prague Fatale continues Philip Kerr’s popular Bernie Gunther series. It is June of 1942, and the cynical homicide detective is nightly toying with ...Read Review
The Thread
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the Greek city of Thessaloniki was populated by a vibrant mixture of Jews, Muslims and Christians. ...Read Review
Why Spencer Percival Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister
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Spencer Perceval was the only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated, and since the man who committed the crime was immediately apprehended ...Read Review