About Certainty Paperback, 358 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (October 21, 2014) When you’re fighting an injustice, can it be wrong to do what’s right? Inspired by the scandalous true story that shocked a nation at the close of WWI. With America’s entry into World War 1, the population of Newport, Rhode Island seems to […]
Jim Snowden, author of The Summer of Long Knives, on tour September/October 2014
About The Summer of Long Knives Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Booktrope Editions (July 26, 2013) In the summer of 1936, the racial and political climate in Munich are growing tense, and Kommisar Rolf Wundt and his wife Klara are increasingly desperate to leave Nazi Germany while they still can. But when a member of the […]
Joanna Hickson, author of The Agincourt Bride, on tour August 2014
About The Agincourt Bride • Paperback: 592 pages • Publisher: Harper 360 (August 19, 2014) Her beauty fuelled a war. Her courage captured a king. Her passion would launch the Tudor dynasty. When her own first child is tragically still-born, the young Mette is pressed into service as a wet-nurse at the court of the mad king, Charles […]
Liz Rosenberg, author of The Moonlight Palace, on tour October 2014
About The Moonlight Palace Paperback: 174 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (October 1, 2014) Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange for handing over […]
Michael Murphy, author of The Yankee Club, on tour August 2014
About The Yankee Club (Jake & Laura Mystery) Publisher: Alibi (August 12, 2014) Pages: 280 In Michael Murphy’s action-packed Prohibition-era novel of suspense, a mystery writer returns to the bright lights and dark alleys of New York City—uncovering a criminal conspiracy of terrifying proportions. In 1933, America is at a crossroads: Prohibition will soon be history, organized […]
Erin Lindsay McCabe, author of I Shall Be Near to You, on tour September 2014
About I Shall Be Near to You Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Broadway Books (September 2, 2014) In I SHALL BE NEAR TO YOU, McCabe introduces us to newlywed Rosetta Wakefield. More accustomed to working as her father’s farmhand and happiest doing what others might call “man’s work,” Rosetta struggles with how to be a good wife to […]
Ned Hayes, author of Sinful Folk, on tour August 2014
About Sinful Folk • Paperback: 362 pages • Publisher: Campanile Books (January 22, 2014) Sinful Folk is the new historical novel from Ned Hayes, with cover and internal illustrations by New York Times bestselling illustrator and author Nikki McClure. Like Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent and Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders, Sinful Folk retells history from the perspective of a […]
Nicola Upson, author of The Death of Lucy Kyte, on tour June 2014
About The Death of Lucy Kyte • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Bourbon Street Books (June 10, 2014) An unexpected inheritance plunges beloved British mystery author Josephine Tey into a disturbing puzzle of dark secrets connecting the present and the past in this intriguing historical mystery brimming with psychological tension. When Josephine Tey unexpectedly inherits Red Barn Cottage […]
Jon Enfield, author of The New Men, on tour July/August 2014
About The New Men Print Length: 303 pages Publisher: Wayzgoose Press (May 14, 2014) For us, the new man, he is one of two things. First, he is the new worker, a man we instruct and investigate until his probation is complete. But also he is an idea. In the foundry, they make parts. On the line, […]
Jacqueline Winspear, author of The Care and Management of Lies, on tour May/June 2014
About The Care and Management of Lies • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (July 1, 2014) The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world. By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant […]