A retired elderly professor and his wife receive a parcel that contains a large old manuscript bound in leather and copper-like material with a key, along with several black onyx cubes with tiny, thread-like white markings like runes on the surface of each cube. Baffled...

All Our Girls is the fifth book in the Firehouse Family series by Laurie Loveman, a well-crafted novel with strong themes and compelling female protagonists. It is the 1930s in New York, and the sex trafficking business is flourishing. One of the people with the...

In Dickie Erman’s compelling historical novel, A Spy's Eyes: Rachael's Story, a spy for the Confederacy leaves the South, determined to help their side win the American Civil War. What Rachael Carrington did not count on is the doubt that begins to creep into her...

Nupur Tustin's novel Aria to Death: A Joseph Haydn Mystery is a historical mystery set in 18th-century Vienna. The central character is Joseph Haydn, the renowned and celebrated Austrian composer. Haydn's friend Wilhelm Kaspar inherits manuscripts which are apparently the long-lost operas of the great...

Aurelia is the first entry in the Aurelia Mitela Roma Nova thriller series by Alison Morton - a compelling thriller with powerful underpinnings of espionage and a sophisticated and strong female protagonist. Set against a riveting political backdrop in the 1960s, the story follows Aurelia...

A Veil Removed is a work of historical murder mystery fiction penned by author Michelle Cox, and forms the fourth book in the Henrietta and Inspector Howard series of novels, continuing the adventures of couple Clive and Henrietta in the recent historical world of pre...

A Modest Independence is a work of both romantic and historical fiction, penned by author Mimi Matthews. This book forms the second instalment of the Parish Orphans of Devon series, setting the tale in the Victorian countryside of the south of England in 1860. In...

Venice, a city known for romance and intrigue, proves why this is true in A Season for Masquerade by Robbi Perna. Chiara Davis and her stepbrother Chas travel to Venice after her grandmother, Francesca, is found dead in a hotel room. Francesca’s reason for traveling...

Dark family secrets, a powerful dilemma, and hard choices are some of the elements that make A Gathering for Claudette by Robert Fortune an engrossing, somewhat hypnotic read. A break-in by a handsome man sets Jennifer Drake on a path to uncovering her family’s past....

Mystery, murder and mayhem surround Charlotte Holmes and her newly acquired friend, Dr. Josh Watan, in A Christmas in Calcutta by AM Sardar. In a delightful new take on the traditional Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson mysteries, Charlotte and Josh meet under unusual circumstances as...