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by Douglas Nicholas
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by S.J. Parris
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsMasterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.
by Ariana Franklin
Published Feb 2009
Read ReviewsAriana Franklin combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of historical fiction in her second novel in the Mistress of the Art of Death series, featuring medieval heroine Adelia Aguilar.
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.
by Ruth Downie
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsMurder in Roman-occupied Britain sets the scene for the most original and compelling novel of the ancient world since I, Claudius.
by Priscilla Royal
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsA nun and a monk defy death and dishonor at her family's Welsh fortress in Priscilla Royal's second 'country house mystery' set in 13th century England.
by Bernard Cornwell
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsThe first volume in a new saga set in the 9th century. The Vikings are overwhelming the land later to be known as England, three out of the four kingdoms are already in their control, only Wessex, under the leadership of Alfred the Great, remains undefeated.
by Iain Pears
Published Mar 1999
Read ReviewsAn ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing until the very last page.
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