Browsing: Historical Fiction

From the Amazon #1 bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew da Vinci comes the second book in the breathtaking…

In 1920s London, a desperate woman’s plea brings widow Rosemary Lillywhite to Barton Manor — where she soon finds herself drawn into a murder investigation. With the help of her best friend and a handsome detective, can Rosemary track down a killer before it’s too late?

Would you murder your brothers to keep them from telling the truth about themselves?On a long, cold Icelandic night in March…

A world at war, a family kept apart and a young boy in the midst of it all. As WW II…

“Wonderful! The kind of novel that you want to read and then discuss with other readers” (Kelly Link). In 18th-century England, Mary Toft stuns her entire town when she begins giving birth to rabbits. “A brilliant work… Like the historical fiction of Hillary Mantel or Caryl Phillips, Palmer does not shy away from the depravity of the past” (Booklist starred review).

Set amid the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, this powerful book centers on Jimmy, a New York man with both black and white ancestry. When Jimmy traces his roots back to Oklahoma, he finds love and community as he becomes caught in the lead-up to a historic conflict.

In ancient Rome, Quintus Sertorius is wracked with survivor’s guilt after 90,000 of his fellow soldiers die in battle. He vows to avenge them by infiltrating the enemy’s military, but can he successfully protect his country — or will his mission end in disaster? “Gripping” (Publishers Weekly).

There is said to be a haunted chamber in the house, erected by Merlin in ancient days, where a man…

In this heartrending saga, coal miner’s daughter Cally has worked hard to create a happy, stable life for herself after a childhood full of hardship. But as World War II looms on the horizon, can she find a way to hold on to everything she loves?

England, 1541. King Henry receives an anonymous letter suggesting that his fifth wife, the young Katherine Howard, whom he had…