The Blood Royal
10 best books like The Blood Royal (Barbara Cleverly): Death at Sandringham House, An Antic Disposition, The Eloquence of Blood, A Corpse in Shining Armour, Murder on the Mauretania, Stonewall's Gold: A Novel of the Civil War, The Duchess of the Shallows, Thomas Jefferson: Lessons from a Secret Buddha, The Paris Directive, The Winter Thief
| Author | C.C. Benison |
| ISBN | 0553574779 |
Compelling contemporary mystery by local Canadian author, CC Benison.
Individual characterization and descriptive settings added to my interest in the action of the story. British euphemisms authenticate the dialogue adding to the humour of the scenarios and personalizing the characters....
| Author | Alan Gordon |
| ISBN | 0312300964 |
In 1204 A.D., the Fools' Guild is on the run from an enraged Pope Innocent III and the Papal troops he's dispatched to destroy them. Now, hidden in their secret enclave deep within the Black Forest, the fools, troubadours and novitiates, including the jester couple Theophilos and Claudia, come together...
| Author | Judith Rock |
| ISBN | 0425242978 |
"An exciting new discovery" (Library Journal) returns to seventeenth-century Paris with a new historical novel of intrigue.
Christmas in Paris, 1686. The spirit of the season is shattered when Martine Mynette is murdered while trying to prove that she is the adopted daughter of the last...
Duelling, derring-do, and dastardly deeds are all in a day's work for Liberty Lane: the plucky heroine for fans of Georgette Heyer and Sarah Waters's Victorian novels. London. Summer 1839. And the temperature is rising as Liberty Lane takes on her strangest case yet. Deranged aristocrat Lord Brinkburn...
| Author | Conrad Allen |
| ISBN | 0312977883 |
November 1907. George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield sail from Liverpool on the maiden voyage of the Mauretania. Posing as passengers, Dillman and Genevieve endure a nightmare voyage during which severe weather batters the vessel unmercifully and keeps the passengers away from the decks....
| Author | Robert J. Mrazek |
| ISBN | 0312254229 |
Winner of the Civil War Society's Seal of Approval
Winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Civil War Fiction
Stonewall's Gold is an adventure story for readers of all ages in the classic tradition of Treasure Island and The Red Badge of Courage. Combining a fascinating and gripping narrative...
| Author | Neil McGarry |
| ISBN | 0985014903 |
A game is played in the fog-shrouded city of Rodaas, and every citizen, from the nameless of the Shallows to the noblest of the Garden, is a player or a pawn. And no one is as he appears.
Not Minette, brothel-keeper and obsessive collector of secrets. Not Uncle Cornelius, fearsome chief of the...
Thomas Jefferson: Lessons from a Secret Buddha
| Author | Suneel Dhand |
| ISBN | 0983677123 |
"A Thomas Jefferson historical fiction mashup book to make you think....."
Thomas Jefferson. Few in world history could claim such an astonishing array of talents and achievements. A true American legend, he played a pivotal role in the founding of a new nation. But one mysterious facet of...
| Author | Gerald Jay |
| ISBN | 0385535481 |
Christopher Reich: "Outstanding! A beguiling, atmospheric, and entirely entertaining novel that promises intrigue and suspense from the very first page. Inspector Mazarelle is a wonderful creation: a world weary, gimlet-eyed detective who must rouse himself for one last case. I expect to see...
| Author | Jenny White |
| ISBN | 0393070174 |
A bank robbery and illegal weapons lead Kamil Pasha to uncover a plan to massacre an entire valley.
December 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbul’s streets, unaware of the men following her. When the police discover a shipload of guns and the Imperial...
| Author | Barbara Hambly |
| ISBN | 0727880101 |
The new 'Benjamin January' novel from the best-selling author - Abishag Shaw is seeking vengeance for his brother’s murder – and Benjamin January is seeking money after his bank crashes. Far beyond the frontier, in the depths of the Rocky Mountains, both are to be found at the great Rendezvous of...
| Author | Rose Melikan |
| ISBN | 1847442870 |
It is the autumn of 1797. The war between the British and the French is being fought not just openly but also in secret by a network of spies. Reluctant heiress Mary Finch is no stranger to adventure, but even she hesitates before accepting this assignment: to travel secretly to Paris and disrupt vital...
| Author | Barbara Nadel |
| ISBN | 0755335635 |
When Emine Aksu, the flamboyant wife of an Istanbul style guru, suddenly goes missing, Inspector Cetin Ikmen's investigation leads him deep into her strange and colourful past.
Emine was a hippie when she was younger, who wholeheartedly enjoyed the liberated lifestyle that swept across...
| Author | Miriam Grace Monfredo |
In the small town of Seneca Falls, New York, history was in the making. And so was murder... Amidst the bustle of the Women's Rights Convention of 1848, the independent, free-thinking town librarian Glynis Tryon is called on by Elizabeth Cady Stanton to help organize the historic event. But when a body...
| Author | Rachelle J. Christensen |
| ISBN | 1599559900 |
Caller ID is great romantic suspense. The story-line was fast paced and kept me guessing. We find out who is behind the kidnapping fairly early on but I wasn't expecting it to be who it was. Even though we know who the bad guy is there are still lots of twists and turns in the story right up until the end.
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| Author | Ted Heller |
| ISBN | 1565126203 |
In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer’s block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world.
When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn,...
| Author | Claudia Welch |
| ISBN | 0425247430 |
In 1975, trying to find a place to belong, four young women found each other in the same sorority pledge class. Through parties and pranks; finals and skipped classes; boyfriends and break-ups, they forge a bond that takes them by surprise. No one expected it to last beyond college graduation....
