19th Century
Though the Heavens May Fall
Amos Hawke, a Scotland Yard detective, is given the opportunity to return to his native Cornwall supposedly to trace his…
Smugglers
(1) England, South Coast, post 1815. Twelve-year-old Reuben Hibberd knows that a shipwreck means good pickings. But there is one…
The Cliff House Strangler
In this, Tallman’s third Sarah Woolson mystery, the spunky late 19th-century attorney deals with the titled investigation while working to…
My Theodosia
This novel is one in a series of reprints Chicago Review Press is publishing of the work of the great…
Cassandra’s Sister
Cassandra’s Sister opens in revolutionary Paris as a young man is guillotined. In due time, his English widow, Eliza, makes…
Veil of Fire
The first section of this novel follows what happens to a handful of residents during a firestorm of 1894 that…
Silent in the Sanctuary
Silent in the Sanctuary reacquaints the readers of Silent in the Grave with widowed Lady Julia Grey and the inscrutable…
Territory
Territory is a western murder mystery with magic at its core. Jesse Fox left his Eastern college to travel West,…
The Last Princess
The pendulum of public opinion seems to have swung as far as it will go with regard to Queen Victoria…
The Rogues
The Highlands of the 19th century, sometime after 1815, are no longer a safe place for regular folk to live,…
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