Rook is a gripping historical crime novel inspired by the real-life bank robber Al Nussbaum. To his wife Lolly, Al is a loving, chess‑obsessed family man; to J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, he’s a calculating mastermind whose meticulously planned heists have turned deadly. When a guard is killed and a cop is shot, Al rockets onto the Most Wanted list and is forced to vanish from Buffalo, leaving Lolly to face the fallout as “the bank robber’s wife.” While Al hides under aliases, plotting new scores and a desperate escape plan, Lolly must support their baby, endure FBI pressure, and decide whether loyalty to the man she loves is worth sacrificing her future. Told in taut, alternating perspectives, Rook explores the thin line between devotion and betrayal, and how far a man—and a marriage—will go when the noose starts to tighten.

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when from out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver! The Lone Ranger rides again!

Who was the mind behind The Lone Ranger?

It’s 1930s Buffalo, New York and the Great Depression rages. Playwright Fran Striker needs to write the pilot for a new radio show but, first, he must overcome writer’s block, defeat a magical curse, foil a plot to assassinate FDR, and recover stolen diamond rings belonging to an alcoholic boxing champion.

Who was that masked man? Based on the controversial true-life story of Lone Ranger creator Fran Striker, Yesteryear takes us on a magical journey leading to an icon’s debut, a show that provided hope to Americans during the country’s darkest days.

1942. War rages in Europe. Pearl Harbor’s still smoldering. And alcoholic private eye Nicholas Bishop wakes up on the floor with two missing slugs from his fired .38. The cops think he murdered lounge singer Pearl DuGaye, the mob thinks he saw something he shouldn’t have, and Bishop remembers none of it. Together with Gia, his assistant he may or may not have fired, a WW1 veteran who sometimes thinks it’s 1918, and a one-eyed female dog named Jake, Bishop tries to piece together the events that took place during his six-day bender.

After Pearl is not only a wartime murder mystery, but also one man’s struggle with reclaiming his life and sobriety. Along the way, Bishop stumbles across a dirty politician, a socialite and her cheating husband, and a cadre of American Nazis who are certainly up to no good. Written in the spirit of Mickey Spillane and Dashiell Hammett, Eoannou adds his own unique flair and voice to this genre.

Louisa Bennett, ship's photographer, meets the handsome Ukrainian, Gennadi Potenko, electrician and balalaika player, at a Russian crew party, on board M.S Ukraina in 1981. These are Cold War times and any close contact between East and West crew members, is strictly forbidden.
After an evening of music and vodka, Louisa wakes the next morning with a massive hangover and cannot remember how she returned to her cabin. But a pink rose by her bed gives her a clue. Disregarding the advice of her colleague, Dermot, to remember the Soviet regulations, Louisa experiences a series of tempting encounters ashore with Gennadi, leading to an illicit, secret love affair.
Inevitably, they are discovered and brutally separated, with severe consequences. Louisa is terrified that Gennadi will be punished further when he reaches the Soviet Union. With the help of Dermot, she decides to fly to Odessa and search for Gennadi. Maybe she can save him and discover the truth about his secret past.,

Harald, second son of Cnute--the king of England and Denmark--takes up a holding in Mercia with his wife, Selia, away from life at court. While they face the many challenges of landholding, someone attempts to murder Harald's brother Sweyn in Nordvegr, vowing to kill all the sons of Cnute. Harald worries whether he has enough men to protect Selia, when an old friend from their journey to Rome, Ravya ben Naaman, arrives with a sworn enemy of Harald's, bound to his horse. Will the threat to their lives now end? Will Harald and Selia ever be truly safe?

The Cold Hearth is book #3 in The Atheling Chronicles series, following Harald Harefoot, a half-forgotten figure in eleventh century pre-conquest England.

In the eleventh century, Cnute, the Viking king of Engla-lond and Danmark, sails to Rome accompanied by his shield brothers and his middle son, Harald,. Thrown off course by a storm, they follow the route up the Rhine. When Harald hangs back to assist Selia, a beautiful Frisian woman, his path turns perilous. New found enemies, retainers of Robert the Devil, Duke of Normandy, pursue them. Harald, Selia, and their companions fail to rendezvous with King Cnute, and are forced to travel cross-country on horseback. If Duke Robert's plan to assassinate Cnute succeeds, an invasion of Engla-lond will follow. Can Harald and Selia reach Rome in time to warn the King?

This sequel to Garth Pettersen's acclaimed historical debut novel, The Swan's Road, continues the story of Harald, second son of King Cnute, and his wife Selia Fehr in the eleventh century.
After a peaceful year running their Frisian estate, Harald and Selia are called to Engla-lond. Their return is marked by violence and intrigue. The king has vowed to Queen Emma that their son Harthacnute will inherit the throne, but the atheling is cruel and reckless. Many view Harald as the better choice, which makes him a target for the ruthless supporters of his half-brother. King Cnute urges Harald to be prepared to assume the throne should Harthacnute prove unfit.
Harald resists being swept up by forces beyond his control, but doubts he and Selia will survive the reign of King Hartha.
And what of his older brother, Sweyn?
The Dane Law is a welcome addition to the wealth of Anglo-Saxon tales written by Bernard Cornwell, Rosemary Sutcliff, and Nicola Griffith.

When Harald, the second son of King Cnute, returns from fighting the king's enemies in Northern Wales, he expects his life to return to normal⸺farming in the Midlands, overseeing his few tenants, evening walks with his beloved Selia⸺an idyllic life, far from the power-mongering of King Cnute's court. But the king grants them a large landholding, a gift they cannot refuse.

On arriving at their new holding, Ravens Hill, Harald and Selia receive a tepid welcome⸺from belligerent housecarls, a conniving steward, an uncompromising abbess, bitter at not adding their estate to her abbey lands, a priest with roaming hands, and a grieving daughter of the previous landholder, who has entered the nunnery.

Harald and Selia wish to improve the lot of their tenant farmers but they face obstacles at every turn, and Harald’s generosity is seen as weakness. They also learn the lands come with an unexpected millstone—an unsolved murder.

Then the trouble begins.

A young slave named Carter Perkins finally gains his freedom when California becomes a free state, and his half-brother and master, Charles Perkins, returns to Mississippi when their father dies. They have worked together to find gold, but only Charles has reaped the rewards. Carter finds gold himself and starts a successful hauling business to support the influx of gold seekers.

He falls in love with Hannah, a woman who was once enslaved, and they plan their future together. For the first time, they feel free. But Southern politicians force California to pass a strict Fugitive Slave Law. Carter and Hannah's friends are quickly chained and thrown in jail. They are helpless to plead their case since people of color cannot speak in court. Carter and Hannah find themselves fighting for their freedom in a web of lies and racism aimed at forcing them back into slavery

Betty Floyd’s uncle risked his life when he signed the Declaration of Independence, yet she is the epitome of British loyalty and social grace in 1779. Attempting to ignore the war, she attends New York’s balls and soirees with the Crown’s officers, but the city is a dangerous place for someone with Patriot ties. When a soldier she has befriended is murdered at a British prison, Betty is driven to choose sides and join General Washington’s covert spy group, the Culper Ring. Her social calendar provides the perfect backdrop to dance with the enemy, and she catches the eye of the charming Major John André, Britain’s Director of Intelligence. Garnering timely information for the Patriots becomes a never-ending balancing act, amid heightened collision between duty to her country and deepening feelings for André. When the slightest misstep could expose her and the entire Ring, a traitorous plot unfolds. Will she outwit the enemy, or will her flirtations with danger cost her everything?

In January of 1939 when Barbara Greene, a beautiful and successful young British actress, met Joe Kennedy Jr., son of the American Ambassador, she could not have expected that their relationship would lead to her emigrating to America sponsored by Ambassador and Mrs. Kennedy. Nor could her brother, Kent, have foreseen his bitter retreat from Dunkirk when he left England in January 1940 to fight in France, or his subsequent service in Cornwall, North Africa, Sicily, and Burma. Their stories portray the war on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and on the home and battle fronts.

"an intimate, harrowing, and vivid portrait of two young people engulfed by a world war.. forced to show the grit and steadfastness that gave Britain its finest hour. —Evan Thomas, author of two New York Times best-selling books, including Road to Surrender.

I loved this book. History and the complexity of human relationships unfold with uncommon grace.
—Barbara Lazear Ascher, award-winning author.

A shallow grave discovered in a forest in Russia in 1991 contains the remains of nine men, women and children. Could they be the Romanov family missing since 17 July 1918?
May Dawson, a New Zealander living and working in London is asked to join an international team of forensic experts tasked with recovering and identifying the remains.
What is the mysterious link between May and Olga Romanov, and where are the two missing children? May cannot rest until the family have been reunited and properly laid to rest.