The Red-Hot Blues Chanteuse: A Viola Vermillion Vaudeville Mystery by Ana Brazil is a twisting, cleverly plotted murder mystery set in the vaudeville theater of post-World War I, San Francisco. Viola Vermillion and her pianist, songwriter, and lover, Stu Wiley, are determined to reach the...

The Drau River Flows to Siberia: The Victims of Victory by Marina Osipova exposes barely known aspects of World War II through fictional characters and experiences that are inspired by real stories. We follow two main characters seeking to escape the inhumane acts that surround...

The Countess Game by Deborah Cay Wilding follows the tale of Elizabeth Hartwell, a young woman who, under suspicion of being against the crown due to her cousin, is evicted from court and forced to flee with her aunt. She finds herself in the company...

In The Gun-Shark and the Town Tamer by Joe Corso, Brazos Kane, authorized by the Governor to recover stolen bank money, tracks down two of the three robbers to Opportunity. In Hotspur, Brazos confronts suspects Clem Parker and another, raising suspicions of hidden motives. A...

Times of Turmoil is the second installment in Anna Belfrage's The Time Locket series, following The Whirlpools of Time. The series begins with Duncan Melville in 1715, searching for companionship after his father's death. However, he unexpectedly time-travels to 2016, where he meets Erin Barnes,...

Gregory Kopp's novel The Heiress in Kent takes place in 19th-century London and New York. Sir Richard Mayne and Her Majesty the Queen ordered Scotland Yard detective Richard Cordwell to investigate urgent matters regarding the British throne's financial investments in the American railroads. During a...

The Violence of Reason by Pete Planisek is a gripping historical fiction thriller set in Nazi-occupied Norway. Aside from her job at a bookstore, Norill is an amateur pianist, courier, and spy for Norway's underground resistance against the Nazi regime. But when her friends and...

The Estelusti Trail is the second book in the Pete Horse Series by Roy V. Gaston and is set in Florida during the Second Seminole War. Pete is a young Estelusti warrior. The Estelusti, or Black Seminoles, were descendants of runaway enslaved Africans who sought...

The Round Prairie Wars by Aden Ross is a mid-century historical fiction novel set in Nebraska, where siblings Jeb and Sam Wilder navigate a frequently nomadic existence through imaginative play. The Wilders park their trailer in Round Prairie, a rural community of staunch religion and...

The Very Dead of Winter: A Sinner's Cross Novel is a work of fiction in the historical, military, and interpersonal drama subgenres. It is suitable for mature adult readers owing to the presence of wartime violence and explicit language throughout. Penned by author Miles Watson,...