By Lyndsay Faye Berkley Trade, $16.00, 480 pages Inundated with Irish refugees fleeing the Great Potato Famine, lacking in law enforcement, and torn between religious, political, and ethnic disagreements, Manhattan is under siege. Into such chaos, the New York City …
By Deanna Raybourn Harlequin MIRA, $15.95, 384 pages Delilah Drummond is a 1920s socialite, the talk of the town in whatever town she happens to currently live in, whether it’s Paris or New Orleans. But when her most recent husband …
By Ruth Downie Bloomsbury USA, $26.00, 352 pages Again I have stumbled upon a captivating series several books in, however, Semper Fidelis is a guaranteed stand alone book that will engulf your senses with historical charisma and leave you feeling fulfilled with a …
By Tosca Lee Howard Books, $22.99, 352 pages Judas. His name has been reviled for centuries. Judas. The name itself has come to personify treachery and backstabbing. It was the worst backstabbing in the history of mankind. Judas: the man who sold …
By Sophie Littlefield Harlequin MIRA, $14.95, 301 pages SF TOPIC San Francisco, 1978: Patty Takeda is preparing for her coming wedding, when a police inspector informs her mother, Lucy, an acquaintance from the Manzanar internment camp thirty years ago has …
By Ellen Marie Wiseman Kensington Books, $15.00, 367 pages People ask, “How could ordinary Germans let the Holocaust happen?” This remarkable novel makes the answer frighteningly clear. Non-Jewish citizens who hated Hitler watched their own freedoms silenced by decree after …
By Martin Fletcher Thomas Dunne Books, $14.99, 339 pages World War ll has ended, and the British are celebrating in the streets. But for Jewish refugees Edith and Georg, there is more to find out. Have all their relatives who were sent …
By Michelle Moran Crown Publisher, $25.00, 314 pages The cries of “Liberté, égalité, fraternité!” were mere echoes of the past when Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself the new ruler of France. After that, Napoleon searched for a way to cement his legacy in …
By John Boyne Other Press, $ 16.95, 320 pages Tristian Sandler left to fight in World War I with nothing and came back with a package of letters from a fallen comrade, Will Bancroft. When he delivers the letters, he isn’t just delivering …
By Megan Chance Broadway, $15.00, 432 pages If you’re looking for historical fiction different from anything else on the market, look no further. Megan Chance’s City of Ash will sweep you away to 1800s Seattle in a fast-paced drama of love, lust, betrayal …
