An atmospheric, thrilling caper through one of the grand ages of Hollywood, Murder Aboard the Highland Rose is full of fun. Harking back to the golden age of hard-boiled mysteries, Peter S. Fischer’s Murder Aboard the Highland Rose is... Read More

"Among the Clouds Above" combines history, realism, and strong characters for a compelling war story. John Rhodes’s "Among the Clouds Above" is an intense, sharply observed WWII novel whose animate characters bring the air war against... Read More

The novel doesn’t gloss over the realities of Viking life but is careful to draw characters with shaded nuances. Robynn Gabel’s bristling ninth-century romance "Norse Hearts" forges an unlikely match against the violence of the era.... Read More

Stevan Allred’s "The Alehouse at the End of the World" is a raucous romp through the afterlife, replete with Shakespearean echoes, antiquated wordplay, and sexual liaisons. A nameless fisherman receives a letter from his lover bidding... Read More

"A Light of Her Own" is a beautifully crafted story set in seventeenth-century Holland, in which two women navigate the law, destiny, and their unstoppable ambition. Painting is Judith Leyster’s passion and calling, and she will not be... Read More

In Michelle Barker’s "The House of One Thousand Eyes", it’s 1983, and the German Democratic Republic is on lockdown. Orphaned when her parents died in a factory explosion, all seventeen-year-old Lena Altman has left are her aunt,... Read More

Brief but cinematic, "No Time for Toys" is a polished, century-spanning historical tale. Based on a true story, Gail Annette Tregear’s brief and gripping historical novella "No Time for Toys" follows an English child who is exiled to... Read More

This ideologically libertarian historical novel follows immigrants who become millionaires, believing that people can work together to change the world. Spanning the entirety of the twentieth century, Gary Andersen’s historical novel... Read More