Fiction goes where history won't. These are the powerful novels that tell personal, painful, and political truths that ...

The true story of Half-Hanged Maggie is well known in Edinburgh, where in 1724 Maggie Dickson was hanged for infanticide, a ...

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A Spy at War by Charles Beaumont (Canelo) This accomplished and notably timely second novel is shot through with convincing ...

It’s a dizzy ride from death in Punch Lane to the moment of truth – a ride well worth taking for lovers of historical crime fiction. Carmel Bird’s most recent book, Love Letter To Lola ...