The Moneylender of Toulouse
10 best books like The Moneylender of Toulouse (Alan Gordon): Death at Sandringham House, Murder on the Mauretania, Stonewall's Gold: A Novel of the Civil War, The Blood Royal, The Outcast, A Deadly Penance, A Play of Treachery, Dancing With Demons, Mighty Old Bones, Introducing Camus
| 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 | 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 | Barbara Cleverly |
| ISBN | 1569479879 |
A story of murder, mystery and espionage (with a dash of romance) set in London in the long, hot summer of 1922, against the backdrop the Romanov murders and the disappearance of the Tsar's fortune.
A beautiful and traumatized young Russian woman turns herself in at the British consulate in...
| Author | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles |
| ISBN | 0751523178 |
1857 - The American Civil War
At Morland Place, Benedict's peaceful life is overset when a mysterious orphan arrives. No-one can understand why he takes this waif into the household, but the strain his arrival causes forces Benedict to take the boy to America, to join his much-missed daughter...
| Author | Maureen Ash |
| ISBN | 0425243362 |
A new Templar Knight mystery from the author who "masterfully creates a medieval world full of rich historic detail." (National bestselling author Victoria Thompson) Templar Bascot de Marins is summoned to Lincoln Castle to learn who murdered a servant engaged in an illicit affair with a married...
| Author | Margaret Frazer |
| ISBN | 0425223337 |
It has been a few years since I left off with this series and forgot to go back. However, thanks to a blogger pal hosting a weekly post about books setting on our backlog at Carole's Random Life, this series was brought back to mind and I picked it up again.
I first fell in love with the Sister Frevisse...
| Author | Peter Tremayne |
| ISBN | 0755328388 |
Sister Fidelma must investigate the murder of the High King himself and by doing so risk civil war, in Peter Tremayne's brilliant new novel in the popular series. When Sechnussach, High King of Ireland, is found dead in his bedchamber with his throat cut, all clues seem to suggest an all-too-obvious...
| Author | Mary Saums |
| ISBN | 0312360649 |
Jane Thistle and Phoebe Twigg are as different as two best friends can be. Phoebe has never seen any reason to leave her small Southern hometown, while Jane, the urbane widow of a career military officer, has traveled all over, only recently putting down roots in Tullulah, Alabama.
At times,...
| Author | David Zane Mairowitz |
| ISBN | 1840460644 |
This book starts with the tragic scene of Albert Camus' death and ends with one of his quotes which says dying in a car accident is a "stupid death".
Camus died on January 4, 1960 at the age of 46, in a car accident near Sens, in Le Grand Fossard in the small town of Villeblevin.
Albert...
| Author | Sylvian Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0752844237 |
'In the crypt of the abbey church at Hallowdene, the monks were boiling their bishop ...' This is the world of medieval quest, of castles, journeys, chance encounters with beggars and spies, of violent killings, and sometimes of unimaginable cruelty. It also a world deeply enmeshed with the supernatural,...
| Author | Alys Clare |
| ISBN | 0340831154 |
First Sentence: In the port of Boulogne, the enemy lay hidden.
A sick man travels to take the healing waters of Hawkenlye Abby but is murdered and thrown into the pond which turns to ice. When the monks discovered his body, it is also discovered he carried apothecary herbs. While Sir Josse d’Acquin,...
| Author | Rett MacPherson |
| ISBN | 0312362226 |
Genealogist and mother of three Torie O’Shea is out birding on the cliffs of the Mississippi River as part of New Kassell, Missouri’s first ever bird-watching Olympics, when someone starts shooting at her and her partner. Disoriented and running for their lives, they stumble over an antique trunk...
