Historical Fiction Roundup (12/5/23)

We’re traveling throughout history with these novels–from an ode to the power of art during wartime, to a ranch for newly-divorced women in 1950’s Reno, Nevada, to a private investigator who has a chance to evade murder charges by committing another crime.

GLORIOUS EXPLOITS BY FERDIA LENNON

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“By giving his leads a sense of purpose during dark and bloody times, Lennon makes the success of their offbeat venture feel important to the reader, and he thoroughly explores the novel’s melancholy central theme…all the way up to the gut-punch denouement.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review

THE DIVORCEES BY ROWAN BEAIRD

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“Having married in the 1950s to escape loneliness, Lois Saunders now wants to escape her empty marriage. So she heads to a divorce ranch in Reno, NV, where she enjoys a brisk frivolity she never knew in her heartlands suburb and meets a woman who changes her life.”–Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert

LITTLE UNDERWORLD BY CHRIS HARDING THORNTON

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Omaha, 1930. When ex-cop-turned-PI Jim Beely murders the man who assaulted his fourteen-year-old daughter, the last person he wants to see is local crooked cop Frank Tvrdik. Luckily, Frank isn’t interested in the lifeless body in Jim’s car. Frank has a proposition: he’ll make the dead man disappear if Jim helps take down Elmer Kobb, who is vying for city commissioner and willing to backstab anyone who gets in his way.

GLORIOUS EXPLOITS by Ferdia Lennon; 9781250893697; 3/26/24
THE DIVORCEES by Rowan Beaird; 9781250896582; 3/19/24
LITTLE UNDERWORLD Chris Harding Thornton; 9780374298333; 3/12/24