Pearson’s Paper by Graham Dodge is a gripping historical detective story, with the Civil War as a backdrop. Harrison Hunt, a suspicious, bitter man who recently left active service with the Union Army, joins the Washington D.C. police force as a detective. He is teamed...

Corrigans’ Pool is an historical fiction drama that will transport you back to the 1860s of southern plantation days. The Civil War is about to begin and life will soon change for Ella Corrigan and her family. Ella meets and falls in love with Gentry...

In a wonderful new work of historical fiction by author Helena P. Schrader, Envoy of Jerusalem: Balian D'Ibelin and the Third Crusade (Balian D'Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem) has a story line that kept me obsessively turning the pages from the very first all...

Shadow of Atlantis by Wendy Leighton-Porter is about three children and a cat named Max, traveling back in time to the island of Atlantis. They arrive in Atlantis right before the volcanic eruption that destroyed the island and sank it into the Mediterranean Sea. An...

Galley-Man by Dasck E DeFin is a historical novel based on the real life of a man named Ezekiel. DeFin begins the novel with historical accounts of events in France, starting with the St. Bartholomew Day Massacre. The novel is a blend of history and...

I have a strong love for historical fiction, and so I was incredibly excited to read Lies: Ann Putnam Jr’s Recounting of the Salem Witch Trials by Oliver Dahl. The novel focuses on the village of Salem, Massachusetts and the witch trials for which they...

In Echoes of Atlantis, numerous subplots conjoin to support the main theme in a rousing adventure by David S. Brody. The lost civilization, Atlantis, has been the subject of thousands of books, both documentary and fiction, but there are few that capture the essence of...

I have a strong love for historical fiction, especially when the story is based on true events, and so I was incredibly excited to read Clevenger Gold by S.E. Swapp, which is based on the 1886 murder of Samuel and Charlotte Clevenger. After selling their...

Death in l'Acadie: A Kesk8a Story by Sherrill Wark is a fascinating historical fiction novel set in 17th century Acadia, the present Port Royal in eastern Canada. It is a very unusual coming of age story told from the perspective of a thirteen-year-old Mi’gmaw girl,...

Murray Lee Eiland Jr’s Return to Babylon is book five in the continuing saga of Orfeo. As Orfeo gazes out to the sea, he ponders his life’s adventures. Even though times are peaceful for him and Clarice at the palace in Pylos, he is restless....