Stacking the Shelves #92

 

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Reading Reality. It's a place to showcase any books I have purchased, borrowed, or been lucky enough to have been given an advance copy of. Hope you find something that looks interesting to you or that makes you remember a favorite book you need to finish. Happy reading y'all!

The Royal Hammer by David Field (Book One of The Wars of the Roses Saga)

Kindle purchase: 99 cents with points

I pre ordered this book a while ago and had forgotten so I was pleasantly surprised when it showed up in my Kindle! This is the first in Field's new series, The Wars of the Roses, and begins where his last series left off....the Battle of Evesham and the fall of Simon de Montfort. I am excited to see how he handles the "three Edwards" and all the drama that goes with them. Book Two is already available for pre-order and is due out in September. It is currently on sale for only 99 cents. 

I love that he is starting in 1265, in chronological order, so that we get a full picture of how things unfold as opposed to starting later on as most books do with this topic. 

Murder at the Pyramids by Jim Eldridge (Museum Mysteries Book 12)

Kindle purchase: Free with points

Put the word pyramids in any mystery novel and I'll read it! This is book 12 so I'd be jumping into a series in the middle but I just might. It looks unique in that each book takes place, well, in a museum setting. And this one happens to really hook me with its location of Cairo and the Great Pyramids. 

Set in 1901 I love that it is historical as well. Abigail and Daniel Wilson, the "Museum Detectives" get involved in the murder investigation of a wealthy American financing an excavation of the pyramids. I'm hoping it's similar to the Peters books from the same setting.

Hastings by Griff Hosker (Conquest Series Book One)

Kindle purchase: 99 cents with points

This author is a former English teacher who has written over 200 books stretching from the early ancient period to modern times. His website, griffhosker.com,  is wonderful, explains the correct reading order and is massive in scope. As someone who loves to read chronologically about historical topics it is a gold mine. This book begins with the Battle of Hastings and all things Norman conquest. I'm not terribly interested in the period before this so I will start with this book. 

Even if you don't want to read them in any particular order, there is so much here running up to World War II, written in narrative form meant to engage and inform. My favorite kind of historical series!