Monthly Archives: January 2025

The Royal Free by Carl Shuker – 2024

The Royal Free depicts the fracturing of a stable reality – personal, institutional, and societal. James Ballard is a grieving widower with a six-month-old daughter, Fiona. He is a copy editor at the Royal London Journal of Medicine, the: “third-oldest … Continue reading

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A Divine Fury by D.V. Bishop – 2024

“Investigating a murder that involves the Church never ends well in Florence.” Cesare Aldo and Carlo Strocchi are back pounding the beat in 1539 Florence. Literally pounding the beat for Aldo, who has been assigned to months of night-patrolling the … Continue reading

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