19th Century
The Prince Kidnaps A Bride
Exiled and hiding from revolutionaries in a Scottish convent for ten years, the winter of 1810 finds Crown Princess Sorcha…
Shadows in the White City
Second in the Inspector Ransom series, set in Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair, this novel is part mystery, part…
The Pleasure Trap
From childhood, Eve Dearing has been haunted by her mother’s death. She and her mother shared the gift of “sight,”…
Loves Of Harriet Beecher Stowe
As every American schoolchild knows, or ought to know, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the great anti-slavery novel.…
Shadows and Lies
This mystery begins in 1909 when a woman called Hannah Smith is badly injured in a London omnibus accident and…
Murder in Chinatown: A Gaslight Mystery
The murder of a lovely young Chinese-Irish-American girl from an affluent Chinatown family, shortly after her elopement with a handsome…
The Traitors’ Gate
Charles Dickens is alive and well. Well, sort of; at least his spirit lives on in bestselling author Avi’s latest…
Every Past Thing
When Pamela Thompson saw Edwin Romanzo Elmer’s painting, Mourning Picture, she saw “worlds that want telling.” This book is her…
Sink The Shigure
Fictional renditions of the peril faced by World War II submariners play a central role in historical novels of naval…
The Admiral’s Daughter
It is 1803, and Commander Thomas Kydd’s mission is to patrol home waters in order to suppress the smuggling trade.…
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