Recently read: John Dunning’s The Bookman’s Promise

This is another novel in Dunning’s Cliff Janeway series about a former Denver cop turned book dealer. Janeway has just bought a signed first edition by Richard Francis Burton (no, not the actor—the 19th century explorer) for a heck of a pile of money and finds himself famous because of it in the book world. His sense of justice won’t let him walk away from an elderly woman who claims that the book was part of her grandfather’s library that was lost in an unscrupulous transaction. Janeway tracks the truth along a trail leading from Baltimore to Charleston during the Civil War. As ever, in addition to the page-turning plot and well-drawn characters, the reader gets to learn a lot.