In Belgian writer Bob Van Laerhoven’s ominous, squirm-inducing Baudelaire’s Revenge , a police procedural set in a besieged Paris in 1870, t...

Today at the blog, I'm welcoming Bradley Greenburg, a debut historical novelist who is also a professor at one of my university's ...

There are few historical novels set during the fifty-year reign of England's Edward III, maybe because his position on the throne was st...

Today novelist Chris Pearce is here speaking about the social and political conditions in late Georgian England that led up to the Peter...

Following upon my earlier review of Antonia Hodgson's twisty debut thriller , The Devil in the Marshalsea , today I'm speaking with ...

It’s a pleasure to discover an author who wields language in striking ways, and Burton’s setting and story line are equally singular. In her...

In today's guest essay, novelist Donis Casey, author of Hell With the Lid Blown Off and six earlier novels in the acclaimed Alafair Tu...

It's about time a new author saw the possibilities in historical novels about Britain's Hanoverian dynasty. The personal lives and ...

In today's post, internationally bestselling author Ann Chamberlin takes readers through the on-the-ground research she conducted in S...

This beautifully written psychological crime novel snuck up on me. For the longest while, I wasn't sure how well this book and I would g...

As promised in the historical note that opens Hodgson’s satisfyingly twisty debut thriller, readers will encounter an eye-opening look a...

It's been a while since I've been as emotionally caught up in a book as I was with Sarah Jio's Goodnight June .  Writing with ...

Here's the second entry in my series of posts about historical novels I'm keeping an eye out for this summer and fall ( part one is ...

As a reader who enjoys learning about underexplored areas of history, I appreciated Andrew Eddy's guest post about a little-known and ...