Veronika Pelka
City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas
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Crowley relies heavily on primary sources as he recounts Venice’s economic rise from the time of the Fourth Crusade to its decline ...Read Review
The Invisible City
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In 1759 King Charles III and his royal court moved from Naples to Spain, and with them came the engineers and architects who would ...Read Review
The Assassin in the Marais
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The Assassin in the Marais is the fourth title in the Victor Legris mystery series set in Belle Époque Paris. For those unfamiliar ...Read Review
A Lesson in Secrets
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This is Winspear’s eighth Maisie Dobbs novel, and like all the others it is well-plotted and enjoyable to read. In England between ...Read Review
Vienna Waltz
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In 1815, all of Europe’s major political figures are attending the Congress to determine the future of Europe. They intend returning France to ...Read Review
River of Darkness
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In River of Darkness, Levy masterfully retells the story of Francisco Orellana’s legendary voyage down the Amazon River in 1541. Based on the ...Read Review
The Forbidden Rose
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Joanna Bourne’s knowledge of the characters and events of the French Revolution are well-grounded, making The Forbidden Rose nicely authentic. The story ...Read Review
The Mistress of Abha
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Ivor Willoughby was a boy when the British military posted his father to Arabia, and for reasons that are revealed only at the ...Read Review
The Dove of Death
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It’s AD 670, and a pirate ship comes upon an Irish merchant vessel carrying Fidelma of Cashel and her husband Brother Eadulf. After ...Read Review
Juliet
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This retelling of the classic tale of Romeo and Juliet has the young lovers living in Siena (not Verona) one hundred years earlier ...Read Review
