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Never Sleep
By Fred Van Lente
A female P.I. tries to foil an assassination plot against Lincoln.
Discipline: A Novel
By Debra Spark
This ambitious historical mystery mostly sticks the landing.
The Phoenix Crown: A Novel
By Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
Veteran authors team up to deliver a suspenseful, ripped-from-reality historical mystery.
The God of Endings
By Jacqueline Holland
This sweeping vampire epic swings for the fences — and misses.
The Case of Cem
By Vera Mutafchieva; translated by Angela Rodel
An ambitious if flat account of a long-ago, would-be sultan.
Homeward: A Novel
By Angela Jackson-Brown
A young Black woman comes of age in the 1960s South.
Artifice
By Sharon Cameron
A Dutch teen risks her life selling forged art to the Nazis.
The Village Idiot
By Steve Stern
A mad genius makes art — and provokes his patrons — in pre-WWII France.
