French Revolution
The False Light
Countess Lisbette Jonquiere (Bettina) has been stripped of her title, left penniless and alone. On the eve of the French…
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
Editors' choice
Everyone knows Madame Tussaud’s; the name conjures photo ops of smiling celebrities standing next to perfect likenesses of themselves in…
Palace of Justice
October 1793, Paris: Marie Antoinette is on her way to the guillotine, and police investigator Aristide Ravel realizes that a…
False Patriots
Anne Cartier, an Englishwoman living in revolutionary Paris, continues to solve crimes in the ninth of this series of mysteries.…
The Admiral’s Game
This is the fifth in the series of novels about John Pearce, a naval officer by default rather than proper…
The Time of Terror
This novel opens in 1793 with Nathaniel Peake, master and commander of the British brig sloop Nereus, patrolling the sea…
The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette
Despite its gimmicky-sounding subtitle, The Bad Queen is a straightforward tale of Marie Antoinette from the time shortly before her…
The Pale Assassin
Eugenie de Boncoeur is a typical 14-year-old aristocrat in France during its Revolution: unaware and frivolous. Although her portrayal is…
The Queen’s Dollmaker
Trent marries the story of a talented dollmaker to the fate of the French queen, Marie Antoinette, who will eventually…
The Good Doctor Guillotin
The lives of five men converge in on one epochal event – the first use of the guillotine as a…
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