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Features this issue:

Editorial: New Staffing and a New Look, Bethany Skaggs
Historical Fiction Market News, Sarah Johnson
History and Film: Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, Bethany Skaggs
Building a Mystery: Jacqueline Winspear and Paul Doherty, interviewed by Mary Sharratt (cover story)
The Second Wives' Club: Sarah Bower talks to Marilyn Heward Mills about Cloth Girl
A Love Story for the Ages: John Shors talks to Sarah Johnson about Beneath a Marble Sky

Books Reviewed:
(Hyperlinks indicate Editors' Choice novels for this issue)

• Abidi, Azhar - Passarola Rising

• Adkins, Jan - Young Zorro

• Albahari, David - Götz and Meyer

• Allen, Conrad - Murder on the Oceanic

• Allio, Kirstin - Garner

• Anderson, Gabriella - Temptation's Warrior

• Andrews, Beth - Stolen Waters

• Andrews, Lyn - Every Mother's Son

• Arruda, Suzanne - Mark of the Lion

• Ashley, Jennifer - Penelope and Prince Charming

• Auel, Jean - The Clan of the Cave Bear

• Aye, Michael - The Reaper: Book One of the Fighting Anthonys

• Bacon, Margaret - For Better, For Worse

• Baker, Kevin - Strivers Row

• Baldry, Cherith - The Buried Cross

• Barber, Noel - A Woman of Cairo

• Barber, Richard - Bestiary

• Barlow, John - Intoxicated

• Barnard, Frank - Blue Man Falling

• Barnes, Julian - Arthur and George

• Barnz, Billy - The Goat Hunter

• Bayard, Louis - The Pale Blue Eye

• Bebris, Carrie - North by Northanger

• Betcherman, Lita Rose - Court Lady and Country Wife

• Bingham, Charlotte - Out of the Blue

• Bishop, Holley - Robbing the Bees

• Bittner, Rosanne - Follow Your Heart

• Blake, James Carlos - The Killings of Stanley Ketchel

• Bradshaw, Rita - The Rainbow Years

• Brightwell, Emily - Mrs. Jeffries and the Silent Night

• Broder, Bill - Taking Care of Cleo

• Bruchac, Joseph - Geronimo

• Buckingham, Dorothea N. - Poisoned Palms: The Murder of Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford

• Campbell, Broos - No Quarter

• Carlyle, Liz - Three Little Secrets

• Cather, Willa - Shadows on the Rock

• Chadwick, Bruce - The First American Army

• Champlin, Tim - The Blaze of Noon

• Clare, Pamela - Surrender

• Cline, Edward - Sparrowhawk v.5: Revolution

• Coe, Marian - Rachel's Story

• Cooper, Susan - Victory

• Cooper, T. - Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes

• Crockett, Edward John - Condottiere: A Knight's Tale

• Croker, Richard - No Greater Courage

• Crook, Elizabeth - The Night Journal

• Crosse, Tania - The River Girl

• Crowley, Bridget - Ship's Angel

• Davenport-Hines, Richard - A Night at the Majestic

• Davies, Martin - Mrs. Hudson and the Malabar Rose

• Davison, Caroline - The Pleasure Garden

• de Lisle, Leanda - After Elizabeth

• Delderfield, R.F. - To Serve Them All My Days

• Delibes, Miguel - The Heretic

• Dew, Robb Forman - The Heart of the Matter

• Dines, Carol - The Queen's Soprano

• Donn, Linda - The Little Balloonist

• Downs, Susan K., and Susan May Warren - Oksana

• Drinkard, Michael - Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead

• Dunmore, Helen - House of Orphans

• Dymmoch, Michael Allen - The Cymry Ring

• Eccles, Marjorie - The Shape of Sand

• Edge, Arabella - The Raft

• Eishen, Thomas M. - Courage on Little Round Top

• Elbrecht, Joyce, and Lydia Fakundity - Hearing, by Jael

• Elton, Ben - The First Casualty

• Elyot, Amanda - By a Lady

• Emerson, Kathy Lynn - Fatal as a Fallen Woman

• Emerson, Kathy Lynn - Face Down Beside St. Anne's Well

• Enquist, Per Olov - The Book About Blanche and Marie

• Estensen, Miriam - The Life of George Bass

• Evans, Pamela - In the Dark Streets Shining

• Ewing, Barbara - Rosetta

• Fioretos, Ari - The Truth About Sascha Knisch

• Fisher, Karen - A Sudden Country

• Fleming, James - White Blood

• Fleming, Thomas - The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee

• Franklin, Ariana - City of Shadows

• Frazer, Margaret - The Sempster's Tale

• Frazer, Margaret - The Bishop's Tale

• French, Judith E. - The Warrior

• Frick, Carole Collier - Dressing Renaissance Florence

• Gabbay, Tom - The Berlin Conspiracy

• Gadsby, June - To the Ends of the Earth

• Ganin, John M. - Medievalism and Orientalism

• Gardner, Ashley - A Body in Berkeley Square

• Gardner, John - Troubled Midnight

• Gardner, Laurien - The Spanish Bride

• Gardner, Laurien - A Lady Raised High

• Gaston, Diane - The Mysterious Miss M

• Gaude, Laurent - The House of Scorta

• Gelardi, Julia P. - Born to Rule

• Gellis, Roberta - Roselynde

• Gellis, Roberta - Desiree

• Gellis, Roberta - Chains of Folly

• Gentle, Mary - 1610: A Sundial in a Grave

• George, Linda - Ask a Shadow to Dance

• Gillenwater, Sharon - Standing Tall

• Gish, Robert F. - West Bound: Stories of Providence

• Glatzer, Hal - The Last Full Measure

• Gran, Sara - Dope

• Gregory, Philippa - Virgin Earth

• Griffin, Philip - Ursula's Maiden Army

• Groot, Tracy - Madman

• Gunning, Sally - The Widow's War

• Haines, Carolyn - Penumbra

• Halkin, Hillel - A Strange Death

• Hallam, Livia, and James Reasoner - Call to Arms

• Harper, Karen - The Fatal Fashione

• Harris, Tim - Revolution

• Harrison, Sarah - The Nightingale's Nest

• Harry, Lilian - The Bells of Burracombe

• Hassinger, Amy - The Priest's Madonna

• Haviland, Diana - Death on the Ladies Mile

• Haynes, Jim - Cobbers, Stories of Gallipoli

• Henderson, William Haywood - Augusta Locke

• Hicks, Carola - The Bayeux Tapestry

• Hochschild, Adam - King Leopold's Ghost

• Hochschild, Adam - Bury the Chains

• Hockensmith, Steve - Holmes on the Range

• Holland, Cecelia - The Serpent Dreamer

• Horn, Dara - The World to Come

• Hunter, Madeline - Lady of Sin

• Jacobs, Anna - Pride of Lancashire

• Jakeman, Jane - The Egyptian Coffin

• Jakeman, Jane - Fool's Gold

• Johnson, Jeannie - Forgotten Faces

• Jones, Marjorie - The Lighthorseman

• Kaine, Margaret - Friends and Families

• Kaniuk, Yoram - The Last Jew

• Kaplan, Robert D. - Mediterranean Winter

• Kelton, Elmer - Brush Country: Two Texas Novels

• Kerr, M.E. - Your Eyes in Stars

• Khoury, Raymond - The Last Templar

• King, Ross - The Judgement of Paris

• Kingsbury, Kate - Wedding Rows

• Kingston, Beryl - Gates of Paradise

• Kohn, Rebecca - Seven Days to the Sea

• Kristeva, Julia - Murder in Byzantium

• Kurland, Michael - The Empress of India

• Kurlansky, Mark - The Big Oyster

• Lavender, William - Aftershocks

• Lawlor, Laurie - He Will Go Fearless

• Lawrence, Starling - The Lightning Keeper

• Leon, Bonnie - When the Storm Breaks

• Levy, Buddy - The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett

• Llywelyn, Morgan - The Greener Shore

• Lock, Joan - Dead Fall

• Lock, Joan - Dead Loss

• Lyon, Kate - Hope's Captive

• MacCauley, Kay - The Man Who Was Loved

• Mackenzie-Blair, Iain - School Story

• Makine, Andrei - The Woman Who Waited

• Mallinson, Allan - Company of Spears

• Manfredi, Valerio Massimo - Empire of Dragons

• Mansel, Philip - Louis XVIII

• Marston, Edward - Murder, Ancient and Modern

• Marston, Edward - The Parliament House

• Martines, Lauro - Scourge and Fire

• Masterson, Richard - Salisbury

• Matthews, Beryl - One Step at a Time

• McLeave, Hugh - The Bonaparte Plot

• McMurtry, Larry - Telegraph Days

• Mercury, Karen - The Four Quarters of the World

• Miano, Sarah - Van Rijn

• Miller, Stephen - A Game of Soldiers

• Mills, Marilyn Heward - Cloth Girl

• Montefiore, Santa - The Gypsy Madonna

• Moore, Margaret - The Unwilling Bride

• Morgan, Kathleen - Wings of Morning

• Morgan, Robin - The Burning Time

• Morren, Ruth Axtell - Lilac Spring

• Morris, Gilbert - The High Calling

• Morrow, James - The Last Witchfinder

• Mrazek, Robert J. - The Deadly Embrace

• Muir, Margaret - Sea Dust

• Neighbour, Mary E. - Speak Right On

• Nelscott, Kris - Days of Rage

• Némirovsky, Irène - Suite Française

• Nolan, Han - A Summer of Kings

• O'Brian, Patrick - Richard Temple

• Osborne, Roger - Civilization: A New History of the Western World

• Oz, Amos - A Tale of Love and Darkness

• Page, Lynda - For What It's Worth

• Paige, Robin - Death on the Lizard

• Pawel, Rebecca - The Summer Snow

• Perez-Reverte, Arturo - Purity of Blood

• Perry, Anne - Dark Assassin

• Peters, Maureen - Trumpet Morning

• Peterson, Tracie, and Judith Miller - The Pattern of Her Heart

• Peyton, K.M. - The Edge of the Cloud

• Philoclete, Rene - Massacre River

• Plaidy, Jean - Uneasy Lies the Head

• Poster, Jem - Rifling Paradise

• Power, Eileen, trans. - The Goodman of Paris

• Rambaud, Patrick - Napoleon's Exile

• Reeman, Douglas - Knife Edge

• Reich, Susanna - Penelope Bailey Takes the Stage

• Reston, James, Jr. - Dogs of God

• Reuss, Frederick - Mohr

• Rice, Eva - The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

• Richardson, V.A. - The House of Windjammer

• Rodman, Mary Ann - Yankee Girl

• Roesch, Joseph E. - Boudica: Queen of the Iceni

• Roiphe, Anne - An Imperfect Lens

• Roud, Steve - Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland

• Russell, Christopher - Brind and the Dogs of War

• Russell, Sheldon - Dreams to Dust

• Sansom, C.J. - Winter in Madrid

• Schaub, Christine - Finding Anna

• Scofield, Lee - Outlaw's Brat

• Scott, Manda - Boudica: Dreaming the Serpent Spear

• Seton, Anya - Katherine

• Sharratt, Mary - The Vanishing Point

• Silber, Joan - Household Words

• Simonds, Merilyn - The Holding

• Sinclair, Olga - The Countess and the Miner

• Snelling, Lauraine - Amethyst

• South, Sheri Cobb - In Milady's Chamber

• Spence, Miles - War & Pieces

• Spongberg, Mary - Companion to Women's Historical Writing

• Stewart, Mary - The Crystal Cave

• Strick, Wesley - Out There in the Dark

• Strickland, Matthew, and Robert Hardy - The Great Warbow

• Tarr, Judith - King's Blood

• Taylor, Michael - Close Relations

• Temple, Lou Jane - Death du Jour

• Tenney, Tommy, and Mark Andrew Olsen - The Hadassah Covenant

• Thomas, Edwin - The Blighted Cliffs

• Thomason, Cynthia - Grave Review

• Todd, Charles - A Long Shadow

• Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace: A New Translation

• Tremayne, Peter - Master of Souls

• Turow, Scott - Ordinary Heroes

• Tussing, Justin - The Best People in the World

• Van Pelt, Lori - Pecker's Revenge

• Various - Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology

• Vaughan-Hughes, Pip - Relics

• Vern, Sarah - The Woman Outside

• Waters, Sarah - The Night Watch

• Watkins, Paul - The Ice Soldier

• Watson, Jan - Troublesome Creek

• Welch, Evelyn - Shopping in the Renaissance

• Wilcox, John - The Diamond Frontier

• Willig, Lauren - The Masque of the Black Tulip

• Worth, Sandra - The Rose of York: Crown of Destiny

• Zimpel, Lloyd - A Season of Fire and Ice

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