Historical Fiction

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In this first of a planned Lillian Frost & Edith Head series, readers will be swept away on a murder mystery set in Hollywood’s Golden Era.

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The dynamic writing duo of Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini add another winner to their lighthearted Carpenter and Quincannon mystery series.

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Sprawling across more than 500 pages, the new novel Three-Martini Lunch captures the excesses as well as the inhibitions of New York City in 1958, from the eponymous meals of the big Manha

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Can a novel be both suspenseful and predictable? Less than half way through Jennifer S.

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Robin Yocum’s A Brilliant Death and William Kent Krueger’s Ordinary Grace tread on similar turf—the 1960s, middle America, the meaning of family and coming of age.

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“Abraham Lincoln is torn apart and adeptly reconstructed by author Stephen Harrigan.”

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“sometimes that’s what you have to do—go back to go forward.”

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“The novel is a quick, compulsive read but leaves much untold; however, this is fiction and not comprehensive biography.”

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Europe in the 19th century was the domain of the Habsburg family. With members seated on nearly every throne on the continent, their influence was immense.

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Prudence Ashton, the narrator, is not the photographer’s wife, rather it is Eleanora, Prue’s sister.

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a fantastic read for a slow afternoon or a short flight.”

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When you’re on the last few pages of a book and find yourself longing for more, then you know that it is a very powerful read. Such is the case with Work Like Any Other.

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The Borgia name conjures up larger-than-life history, sumptuous banquets, sexual license, and infamy.

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This is how large scale action-fantasy should be.”  

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It is said that every human being on earth has a doppelganger, but what if yours lived an exciting, dangerous life 800 years ago and now you’re invited to participate?

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The first thing to be said about this intriguing historical novel is that it ranks high among the “must read” list of debut works.

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“beautiful narrative of historical fiction. . . . absorbing . . .”

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On July 1, 1967, B. passes her first counterfeit check.

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Little is known about Zenobia, a real historical figure born c.

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This novel is as finely tuned as the best banjo played by 19-year-old runaway slave Henry Sims.

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Gorsky is an homage to The Great Gatsby, with an interesting premise, but author Vesna Goldsworthy lacks subtlety in crafting this tribute.

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“rollicking good ride.”

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The Other Me is a pleasure to read, with a style that moves as smoothly as an Acela train and a page-turning plot.

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Wonderment, carelessness, and suspense.

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