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Historical Fiction August 2019
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The wolf and the watchman : a novel
by Niklas Natt och Dag
A U.S. release of an award-winning first novel finds a disabled ex-soldier and a lawyer with tuberculosis combing the underworld of 18th-century Stockholm to unmask a ruthless murderer before a young workhouse laborer becomes a next victim. 100,000 first printing.
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Who slays the wicked : a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery
by C. S Harris
Assisting Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy when a dissolute young gentleman is brutally murdered, Sebastian St. Cyr scrambles to find the killer to exonerate his wrongly implicated niece. By the author of Why Kill the Innocent
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| Deep River: A Novel by Karl MarlantesIntroducing: Ilmari, Aino, and Matti Koski, Finnish siblings who immigrate to the United States in the early 1900s and settle in Deep River, a hardscrabble logging community in the Pacific Northwest.
What happens: Brothers llmari and Matti risk life and limb in the timber industry, while sister Aino becomes a labor activist.
Author alert: Karl Marlantes' debut, Matterhorn, won the Society of American Historians Prize for his haunting depiction of the Vietnam War. |
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The hangman's secret : a Victorian mystery
by Laura Joh Rowland
When a local executioner is found murdered by the same method he used to end criminal lives, photographer Sarah Bain and her friends follow leads to a notorious killer of infants. By the award-winning author of A Mortal Likeness
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Master and commander
by Patrick O'Brian
First in the series. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin form a friendship in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy is described
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| The North Water by Ian McGuireWhat it's about: In 1859, the whaling vessel Volunteer sets sail for the Arctic under the command of the corrupt Captain Brownlee.
Featuring: a motley crew that includes Patrick Sumner, a former army surgeon with a laudanum habit and a trunk full of secrets, and Henry Drax, an alcoholic harpooner with a thirst for brutal violence.
Is it for you? If you like fast-paced, violent sea stories that leave you wondering who (if anyone) will survive, check out The North Water. |
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| The Bermuda Privateer by William WestbrookWhat it is: a swashbuckling maritime adventure story perfect for fans of David Donachie, Alexander Kent, and Seth Hunter.
Starring: Nicholas Fallon, formerly of the Royal Navy and now the privateer captain of the schooner Sea Dog; and Beauty McFarland, his (female) friend and first mate.
Series alert: Captain Nicholas Fallon's adventures continue in The Black Ring. |
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