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Published Feb 2026
Read ReviewsThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets First Lie Wins in this electric, voice-driven debut novel about an elusive bestselling author who decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past.
by Jane Johnson
Published Jan 2021
Read ReviewsA broken family, a house of secrets - an entrancing tale of love and courage set during the Second World War.
by Stuart Neville
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsAn apparent suicide exposes a deadly secret in the suburbs of Belfast.
by Helen Phillips
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsA young wife's new job in an enigmatic organization pits her against the unfeeling machinations of the universe in this inventive and compulsively page-turning first novel
by Kieran Shields
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsWhen newly appointed Deputy Marshal Archie Lean is called in to investigate a prostitute's murder in Portland, Maine, he's surprised to find the body laid out like a pentagram and pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. He's even more surprised to learn that this death by "sticking" is a traditional method of killing a witch...
by Bryn Greenwood
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsLast Will is a richly detailed story about finding love in a world that can scarcely offer the real thing.
by Anne Fortier
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsJuliet, an ambitious, utterly engaging historical novel on the scale of The Thirteenth Tale and The Birth of Venus, follows a young woman who discovers that her familys origins reach all the way back to literatures greatest star-crossed lovers.
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the international phenomenon, The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angels Game, a new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love.
by Andrew Davidson
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsAn extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.
by Lauren Groff
Published Nov 2008
Read Reviews"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story.
by Rebecca Stott
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsFilled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newtons scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered involving Newtons alchemy.
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
by Maggie O'Farrell
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsMaggie OFarrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires struggle with the imposition of social mores. This haunting story explores the seedy past of Victorian asylums, the oppression of family secrets, and the way truth can change everything.
by Michael Gruber
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsAn intellectual property lawyer is at the center of a deadly conspiracy and a chase to find a priceless treasure involving William Shakespeare. As he awaits a killeror killersunknown, Jake writes an account of the events that led to this deadly endgame, a frantic chase that began with a fire in an antiquarian bookstore.
by Michael Cox
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsConvinced he is destined for greatness, Glyver will stop at nothing to win back a prize that he knows is rightfully his. A story of betrayal and treachery, of death and delusion, of ruthless obsession and ambition.
by Sally Beauman
Published Feb 2007
Read ReviewsA dramatic, atmospheric novel in a grand storytelling tradition, The Sisters Mortland is beguiling, complex, hauntingly sad, and often dazzlingly funny. A tour de force of tales within tales, it sets the capstone on bestselling author Sally Beauman's literary career.
by Patrick McGrath
Published May 2002
Read ReviewsA hypnotic tale of psychological suspense and haunting beauty. Set among the teeming streets and desolate wharves of Hogarth's London, then shifting to the powder-keg colony of Massachusetts Bay.
by Jane Mendelsohn
Published May 2001
Read ReviewsThe acclaimed author of I Was Amelia Earhart returns with a modern gothic tale about a New York schoolgirl.
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