Vicki Kondelik
The Splendor Before the Dark: A Novel of the Emperor Nero
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Margaret George’s epic novel, the second of two about the emperor Nero (after The Confessions of Young Nero), begins with Rome on ...Read Review
The Deadliest Fever: A Miriam bat Isaac Mystery in Ancient Alexandria
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After the Torah mantle in Alexandria’s Great Synagogue is vandalized and blood is found on the bemah, Miriam is tasked with the ...Read Review
Island of the Mad
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Island of the Mad is the latest installment in Laurie R. King’s popular mystery series set in the 1920s, featuring Sherlock Holmes ...Read Review
See Also Proof
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This is the third book in Larry Sweazy’s mystery series featuring Marjorie Trumaine, who works as a freelance book indexer while running ...Read Review
Botticelli’s Muse
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Botticelli’s Muse, the first in Dorah Blume’s trilogy set in Renaissance Florence, begins in 1477, when the artist Sandro Botticelli is dismissed ...Read Review
Searching for Mr. Tilney
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Searching for Mr. Tilney is a compelling combination of a retelling of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and a time travel novel. In 1975, ...Read Review
The Throne of Caesar
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Here is the long-awaited next installment of Saylor’s Roman mystery series, featuring Gordianus the Finder, that deals with Julius Caesar’s assassination. ...Read Review
This Side of Murder
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In 1919 England, young war widow Verity Kent receives an anonymous letter suggesting her husband, Sidney, committed treason. At first, she refuses to believe ...Read Review
The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes
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This captivating mystery novel set in London in 1910 tells the story of Joanna Blalock, the daughter of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, who ...Read Review
The Paris Spy
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In the latest entry in Susan Elia MacNeal’s WWII mystery series featuring codebreaker and secret agent Maggie Hope, Maggie goes to occupied ...Read Review