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Here it is March already and what better way to pass some time than to read some novels with a history and mystery combination.

A Grave Talent is the first in a series of mystery novels about San Francisco Police Detective Kate Martinelli.  It won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery. 

Whether you played stickball on a city street, knew everyone in your town, or watched the sunset over the prairie, you’ll enjoy this captivating novel. The story begins with Kloefkorn nearly, but unintentionally, burning his family’s home down. And this is just the beginning!

This is an intriguing novel about a young women who learns of her father's death in Cairo and heads to Egypt to settle his affairs.  Gemma, a woman with her own haunted past, is intelligent and engaging as she makes giant leaps in coming to and believing in the “truth” her father felt he had found.

A dazzling, historical novel that tracks the struggle of a Hawaiian woman that contracts leprocy as a child in the 1890s and is quarantined on the Island of Moloka’i. After the advent of sulfa drugs, the story shows how this memorable character rises from the limitations of this disease.