Edward Chupack expands the story of one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most memorable characters—Long John Silver—in his Treasure Island spinoff, Silver.
Told from the pirate's perspective, it opens on board a ship carrying an unrepentant Silver to his execution in England. He shares the story of his early life and rise to infamy and chronicles his lifelong pursuit of an elusive treasure.
Silver is a man with a plan and hopes to secure his release by promising to reveal the whereabouts of the fabled trove.
Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called it a “swashbuckling debut” and a “riveting narrative” and it is, indeed, peppered with superb pirate dialogue – along with a murder, a map, ciphers and codes, and even a bit of romance.
The Three Musketeers appear to be on a reunion tour, having recently surfaced in Sarah D'Almeida’s The Musketeer's Apprentice.
When Porthos agrees to instruct a young nobleman in the art of fencing, his apprentice meets an untimely death by poison and the old gang bands together once again to catch the killer.
And, while we are on the topic of the “literary mystery” – move over Jane Austen, lady detective!
In Laura Joh Rowland’s The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte, Miss Bronte
travels to London with her sister Anne in the summer of 1848 to clear her name when she is falsely accused of plagiarism. On the train they meet a young woman who is later murdered before Charlotte's eyes.
Charlotte and both of her sisters, Emily and Anne, set out to solve the crime and bring the woman’s killer to justice.
A change of pace for Rowland, author of the acclaimed Sano Ichiro – samurai and private investigator for the shogun – mystery series set in 17th century Japan.
