January 2018 list by Sarah Brinkerhoff
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A Dangerous Crossing
by Rachel Rhys
On board an ocean liner bound for Australia on the eve of World War II, Lily Shepherd enjoys exotic stops while bonding with high-society passengers, a situation that is complicated by her growing love for a man far above her station and an untimely double murder.
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Beneath the Darkest Sky
by Jason Overstreet
When ex-Bureau agent Prescott Sweet has the opportunity to live in Moscow and work at the U.S. Embassy, he and his family seize the chance to at last put down roots in what they believe is a fair society; but when they are reduced to bare survival in Stalin's Russia and Prescott's son becomes gravely ill, the former spy must draw on all his skills to free his family.
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Dark Dawn over Steep House : The Gower Street Detective
by M. R. C. Kasasian
Detective Sidney Gower and his ward, March Middleton, must solve a mystery that involves a Prussian Count, two damsels in distress, a Chinese man from Wales, a gangster looking for love and the shadowy ruin of a once-loved family home, Steep House.
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Dead Man's Blues
by Ray Celestin
In 1928 Chicago, a team of Pinkerton detectives work on three cases—a clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel; a white gangster is found mutilated in an alleyway in the Blackbelt; and a famous heiress vanishes without a trace—that soon become intertwined in the most dangerous of ways.
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Fools and Mortals
by Bernard Cornwell
The estranged younger brother of William Shakespeare observes the first production of A Midsummer Night's Dream while navigating a high-stakes game of duplicity and betrayal that threatens his acting career, his potential fortune and the lives of his fellow players.
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King Zeno
by Nathaniel Rich
A traumatized police officer, a conflicted Mafia matriarch, and a talented trumpeter cross paths in 1918 New Orleans against a backdrop of the Spanish flu, the birth of jazz, and the brutal activities of an ax murderer.
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Munich
by Robert Harris
A spy thriller set against a backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of 1938 follows the experiences of a rising star in the British diplomatic service and his Oxford friend, a secret member of the anti-Hitler resistance, who while on a disastrous collision course with each other witness pivotal events involving Chamberlain, Mussolini and other historical figures.
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The Girls in the Picture
by Melanie Benjamin
An intimate reimagining of the powerful creative partnership between Hollywood superstars Frances Marion and Mary Pickford traces their friendship and boundary-breaking achievements against a backdrop of pre-World War I Hollywood.
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Ziegfeld Girls
by Sarah Barthel
Set against a glittering background of vintage glamour, famous figures of the time and high-stakes, Ziegfeld Girls is an unforgettable novel of two extraordinary women seizing their own fates in a pivotal era.
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The Widows of Malabar Hill
by Sujata Massey
Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. This is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp and promising new sleuth, Perveen Mistry"
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