Historical Fiction

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A distraught husband, Ronnie Armitrage, is found returning to his car in a field, saying his wife may have run toward the ocean after an argument and drowned.

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“Archer’s bold thriller structure bares all motives and manipulations, so there are few surprises and no secrets here, but the suspense of each interaction resembles the final rounds of a c

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“Though this is far from the modern crime fiction she’s known for, McDermid weaves Queen Macbeth from the same understanding of longings for safety, justice, and yes, love.”

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The Empusium reprises many aspects of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain: a sanatorium (this one in Lower Silesia) for the treatment of tuberculosis; a time period set in 1

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The Wildes is both a powerful family portrait and a verbal delight.”

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“A more imaginative writer would have made Venetia’s fascinating story more vibrant.”

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“In A Kid from Marlboro Road Edward Burns perfectly captures a bygone era and sense of place.”

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The Instrumentalist is a marvel, a story rich in texture and detail.”

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“This is a book to linger over, for the thoughts in it and for the words and the ways the author uses them.”

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“The Thirteenth Husband is an outstanding depiction of Aimee Crocker's complicated real life turned into fiction.”

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“‘And the wall became a scream of birth, this birth for it was the birth of the Universe . . .’”

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“feels completely contemporary in terms of language, characters, descriptions. It just happens to take place in the 11th century.”

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More spy story than mystery, Maggie Hope's last mission has as many twists and turns as a rollercoaster.

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“Mwanza’s writing captures her own passion as well as that of her central character.”

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“The strength of Shanghai is in its skillful plotting, with numerous twists and turns as befitting this tumultuous period in the city’s history.”

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“Some Murders in Berlin blends historic forensics and international intrigue in ways that should guarantee it a place on the thriller and investigations shelf.”

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“a fighting novel, and one with a great heart.”

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“Farewell, Amethystine is a pleasure to sink into, a well-written traditional PI novel scented with the music of the time and the hope that things will continue to

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Alison Weir’s fans can only hope that there is more to come with stories about Edward and Elizabeth.

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“an intimate novel, closely and brilliantly observed . . .”

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With a primary setting in the backwoods of Montana in the late 1970s with some spillover into the earliest eighties, Old King tells the story of Duane Oshun, a divorcé who leaves Salt Lake

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“The Art of Disappearing provides enough clues to see where the story is going without disappointing the reader at the end.”

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"masterful. . . . Oates' writing is so deft and the world she creates so vivid, one keeps turning the pages, all the way to the deeply unsettling ending."

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