Reviews

A Wasp in the Beehive (The Brigid Reardon Mysteries)

By Mary Logue - Published 2026

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeWestern

In 1881, Brigid Reardon is newly settled into the Cutter home in Salt Lake City after leaving Cheyenne, where she left her brother Seamus, ...Read Review

Asterios and the Labyrinth (Mythos of Knossos)

By Edmond Thornfield - Published 2025

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The storied reign of King Minos, ruler of Knossos on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age (circa 1700 BCE), is enveloped in ...Read Review

Murder at the Moulin Rouge: A Blackwell & Watson Time-Travel Mystery

By Carol Pouliot - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeTime-slip

Steven Blackwell is a 1930s police detective. Olivia Watson is a 21st-century journalist. This cozy mystery is their fifth time-travel adventure, with a ...Read Review

The Repentants

By Kate Foster - Published 2026

Genres:

Literary

Scotland, 1790, and Florrie Aitken—a wealthy but emotionally neglected housewife—strides out, determined to experience ‘pure bliss’. Unfortunately, just at the moment of ...Read Review

Nikephoros II Phokas, 912–969: The White Death of the Saracens

By Ilkka Syvänne - Published 2026

Genres:

MilitaryNonfiction

Finnish Byzantine scholar Syvänne has turned his dissertation into the definitive volume on Nikephoros II as military leader—don’t come looking ...Read Review

The Forgotten Sonata

By Steven Smith - Published 2025

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This story opens in the hallowed halls of Cambridge, where history scholar Oliver Beale receives a battered journal from his aunt, tempting him ...Read Review

All in Her Hands

By Audrey Blake - Published 2026

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This third entry in the Nora Beady historical series invites readers to witness the day-to-day medical and surgical practice of Dr. Nora Gibson (...Read Review

Rose by the Sea: An Armenian Journey of Courage and Hope

By Myo Yim (illus.) - By Rebecca Rose Mooradian - Published 2026

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Dzovinar, which means “rose by the sea,” lives cozily with her sister and parents in a cottage beside a lake, surrounded by flowers. ...Read Review

Margery and Me

By Maryka Biaggio - Published 2026

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Sometimes what makes a book unique is its perspective. The narrator in this novel about the 1920s spiritualism craze is a spirit himself, ...Read Review

The Two Deaths of Lillian Carmichael

By Paulette Kennedy - Published 2026

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1853 South Carolina, Lillian Carmichael faces the noose for the murder of her sister. Though Lillian is innocent, it makes no difference now; ...Read Review