Books like The Feast is Finished by Denise Robins

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

A young bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

During the final months of World War I, Stella Morris discovers her sister Pamela secretly married Lord Julian Eden, only to have him declared missing. With a second marriage looming and Julian’s mother dying, Stella steps in to comfort the ailing Lady Eden, while a dramatic reunion threatens to unravel the family’s fragile harmony.

Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.

A concise historical exploration of Mary Boleyn, the lesser-known sister of Anne, set within the Tudor court of 1508–1543.

Linda returns from a secretarial job in Frankfurt to reunite with Grant, only to find their relationship uncertain and a new woman in his life. Seeking comfort, she turns to Tony, who offers devotion she cannot love.

A wartime romance set in Egypt's Suez Canal Zone, where a young wife tests love amid heat, hardship, and mounting tension.

After the sudden death of her fiancé, Helen mourns and feels her life is over until she meets Peter, who bears a striking resemblance to her lost love. A fraught love triangle threatens her chance at happiness as Peter defends his engagement to Rita.

Gothic retelling of Jane Eyre set in early 19th-century London, where a woman traumatized by her aunt and a cruel schoolmaster turns to vengeance and becomes a governess amid dark secrets and a possible serial killer.

After a sudden jilting, Briony Moore becomes the secretary of explorer‑writer Hew Vanner in the Lake District, where a conflicted romance and a love triangle unfold amid 1950s English countryside.

A war‑time love triangle in 1940s Edinburgh: a woman caught between her husband, a soldier, and a laird who is the ghost of her first love.

A chance encounter in the 1930s sparks a love triangle that threatens future fortunes, but unforeseen twists offer a chance at happiness beyond expectation.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

A former underworld kingpins spirals from Parisian high society into ruin when past betrayals and a jealous mistress drive him into the city's darkest depths.

"A charming ode (with recipes) to eating well and locally, on $40 dollars per week, from a recently unemployed food-journalism veteran. In 2009, Robin Mather found herself unemployed. She consequently moved to rural Michigan, where she committed to eating three home-cooked, seasonal, and local meals a day. In essays that chronicle a year of her ambitious project, Mather explores the confusion surrounding local eating and examines how often we fail to pay attention to the seasons that surround us. With 150 winning recipes such as Lemon-Tarragon Pickled asparagus and Greek-Marinated Grilled Leg of Lamb, Mather draws on her rich kitchen knowledge, honed by years as a food writer. This narrative-cookbook hybrid shares encouraging advice for aspiring locavores, offering both the virtues of kitchen thrift and the pleasures of cooking well"-- "A charming ode (with recipes) to eating well and locally, on $40 per week, from a recently unemployed food-journalism veteran"--Provided by publisher.

The newest novel in the "USA Today" bestselling series finds Jessica Fletcher cooking up a heartwarming holiday dinner--and a fresh serving of trouble as she and Inspector George Sutherland take a post-turkey stroll in Cabot Cove, Maine, and stumble upon the body of a man with a carving knife stuck in his chest.